The Ability Services

Ability Storytellings offers dynamic speaking engagements and interactive workshops focused on disability, accessibility, and caregiving. Through powerful personal stories and practical insights, we inspire change, challenge perceptions, and promote inclusion.

Designed to engage audiences, foster empathy, and provide actionable knowledge. By amplifying lived experiences, Ability Storytellings informs, empowers, and connects.

Bring The Ability Company to your next event.

We offer impactful speaking engagements and interactive workshops that center on disability, accessibility, and caregiving. Whether you're looking for a powerful lived experience talk or a hands-on session that sparks learning and inclusion, we’re here to support your goals.

Our team is available for both virtual and in-person events.

Let’s connect and create meaningful impact together.

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Our Keynotes

The Power of Ability — A Story of Courage, Care, and Connection

This powerful keynote invites audiences into a deeply personal and transformative journey of disability, caregiving, and the unshakable bond between two Indigenous sisters. Trish, living boldly with cerebral palsy, and Jen, her sister-turned-caregiver and advocate, share their intertwined stories with honesty, humour, and heart.

Together, they explore:

  • The courage it takes to be seen and heard in a world not built for everyone

  • The invisible labour and emotional complexity of caregiving

  • The founding of The Ability Company as a response to systemic gaps

  • The strength of their relationship and the resilience it fuels

  • The importance of intersectionality, representation, and communication beyond words

Through storytelling, Trish and Jen challenge assumptions, celebrate diverse abilities, and offer a call to action: listen, reflect, and act. This keynote is more than a talk — it’s an invitation to reimagine inclusion through the lens of lived experience and Indigenous identity.

Connect today to book our keynote.

*More keynote offerings to follow

Where We Speak

The Ability Company is proud to share stories, lead workshops, and spark conversations in a wide range of spaces committed to learning, inclusion, and change.

We speak at:

  • Health and corporate conferences

  • Community events and nonprofit gatherings

  • Universities, colleges, schools, and youth groups

  • Webinars and virtual events

  • Indigenous communities and organizations

  • Home care agencies and disability support services

  • Retirement residences and long-term care homes

  • Government departments and public service organizations

  • Chambers of commerce and business associations

Whether in person or online, we tailor each session to meet the needs of your audience — bringing lived experience, practical insight, and a message of courage, care, and connection

Our Workshops

  • Inclusivity 101

    An Interactive workshop offering practical tools and lived insights to help create accessible, respectful, and truly inclusive spaces.

    Click here for more details.

  • Inclusive Events In Action - Emotional Inclusion and Accessibility for Event Hosts, Staff and Volunteers

    Coming Soon!

FAQs About Our Storytelling Offerings

  • Our name reflects an Indigenous worldview where speaking and teaching are deeply rooted in storytelling. We don’t just present—we share lived experiences to build understanding, connection, and change. Storytelling is how knowledge is passed, empathy is built, and communities grow.

  • We offer both speaking engagements and interactive workshops. Whether you're hosting a conference, classroom session, team training, or community event, our storytellings bring real voices and lived experience to the forefront.

  • Our storytellings are designed for organizations, educators, healthcare professionals, community leaders, and anyone committed to inclusion. No prior knowledge of disability or accessibility is required.

  • We speak and teach on disability, accessibility, caregiving, inclusive design, and the power of lived experience. Each session is tailored to your audience and goals.

  • Yes! Our workshops include storytelling, discussion, and hands-on activities. Participants leave with practical tools and a deeper understanding of inclusion.

  • Absolutely. Whether it’s a keynote, panel, or workshop, we tailor the format and content to meet your needs and resonate with your audience.

  • Yes—we offer both in-person and virtual formats for storytellings. We’ll work with you to find what fits best.

  • We offer flexible formats: 60-minute talks, half-day workshops, full-day trainings, and everything in between.

  • Not at all. Inclusion matters everywhere. We speak at events of all kinds—corporate, educational, healthcare, and community-based.

  • Yes! Our YouTube channel amplify voices from the disability and caregiving communities, offering real stories that inspire empathy and action.

  • Just reach out through our connect form or email us directly. We’ll help you design a session that fits your needs and makes a lasting impact.