Working With a Chronic Illness

Running every Monday and Thursday evening, we've created the space to come together and feel validation, to learn advocacy, accommodations and survival in the workplace.

Topics of Discussion

Lived Experience Check-In

Our focus is to provide a space for you to feel heard. Join us to check in with others and share about your experiences and feel validated.

Accommodations: Reality vs. Theory

Come together to talk about workplace accommodations, share your experiences and gain insights from others.

The Emotional Cost of Advocacy

Come together to discuss to the emotional costs of advocacy, and the emotional costs of working with a chronic illness and/or disability.

This workshop centres the lived reality of working in environments that were never designed with chronic illness or disability in mind. Many of us have had to navigate accommodation requests, workplace discrimination, disbelief, pressure to “push through,” and the constant calculation around if, when, and how to disclose.

This session is not about fixing ourselves or offering productivity hacks. It’s about naming the systems that fail us, validating the complexity of surviving within them, and creating space to speak honestly about what it costs. Together, we’ll share what we’ve learned, acknowledge what has impacted us, and remind one another that our needs are legitimate. We want to create the space to identify our feelings, so we can positively move forward with strength, insights and belief in ourselves.

This is a space for honesty, solidarity, and survival. You are not too much. Your access needs are not inconveniences. And you are not alone in navigating systems that were not built with Chronic Illnesses and/or Disabilities in mind.

With the purchase of your ticket, you'll be invited to a Working With A Chronic illness Group Chat, a space to keep connected, share your experiences and to continue to learn from others.