Post by Admin on Aug 28, 2020 21:19:16 GMT
Welcome to Aciu! Institute:
A Confluence of Movements for Sustainability and Disability
Aciu! Institute, LLC is a consulting business that supports the independence and empowerment of businesses, nonprofits, and individuals concerned about disability, mental health, and/or environmental sustainability.
Our specialty is disability empowerment consulting, with a focus on community organizing with psychiatric survivors.
aciu.info/
As we prepare for future challenges, now more than ever, both nonprofits and businesses need self-funding skills, community connections, and full accessibility for physical and mental disabilities, along with a commitment to environmental sustainability. We can learn important lessons from those who have
already experienced extreme disability.
We honor each person’s humanity and seek to better the human condition. In all our actions, we uphold the rights of all beings to life, on our biosphere. We support a transformation in how humanity interacts with Planet Earth!
Ask yourself these questions….
Does my nonprofit or business truly welcome, include and hear people with disabilities as customers, members and/or employees?
How can we do “disaster preparation” that includes the perspective & voice of people with disabilities?
If our group feels paralyzed by climate crisis: Who are we gonna call?
What is the best way to support the empowerment and independence of marginalized & dis-empowered communities, such as people with disabilities and psychiatric survivors?
Do people find my business accessible?
How can my rehab be “green?”
A Story of Transformation
Aciu! Institute founder and main revolutionary consultant, David W. Oaks, brings more than four decades of leadership in the independent disability movement. David draws on a global activist community of people with disabilities and psychiatric survivors.
He founded one of the main coalitions for human rights in mental health, MindFreedom International, which he directed for 25 years.
A serious 2012 accident made David a quadrapeligic (tetraplegic) in a powerchair with additional disabilities to his voice and hands.
After years of rehab and preparation, David has revolutionized these seemingly insurmountable challenges into opportunities.
“I have re-established my credentials!” said David who in 2020 is launching this green disability revolutionary consulting business. “I’m back! The next few years will decide the fate of humanity. We need the strength of the disability movement as never before.”
Let’s Be “Raving Lunatics” for the Earth!
by admin | Jan 5, 2020 | Business News, Climate Crisis, Green Disability
aciu.info/2020/01/05/lets-be-raving-lunatics-for-the-earth/
Green Disability News 1 – January 6, 2020
At this moment, as I launch this Green Disability News, almost 200 bushfires are still burning throughout Australia. Their deputy prime minister, Michael McCormack, has called Australians who are concerned about the link between climate crisis and this catastrophe: “raving lunatics.”
For more than four decades I have worked as a community organizer for human rights of psychiatric survivors. I was privileged to have colleagues like my friend Justin Dart, who championed the Americans with Disabilities Act and often called for “revolution.”
Seven years ago, I experienced a severe accident that left me a quadriplegic in a power chair.
In other words, I have “reestablished my credentials” as a leader in the disability movement, both in physical and mental disability. And I’m back. I am revolutionizing my challenges into a consulting business, Aciu! Institute, for green disability.
What is “green disability?” On the one hand, of course, we folks with disabilities need to be as environmentally conscious as possible. Yes, our rehab can be greener, our electricity can become solarized, just like anyone.
But also, “green disability,” for me, is a quick way to describe a challenge all of us modern humans share: a disconnect with nature. The disability social change movement is, some would argue, one of the largest on the planet. Everyone is just a slip or bad bicycle trip away from being disabled. Everyone who ages sufficiently joins our movement.
We in the disability movement need to do far more to address the climate crisis, NOW! Because our folks tend to be so poor and marginalized, our groups have often depended on government funding. In the USA, that means that many disability groups now have as their boss’s boss’s boss, one of the most disturbed and dangerous people in world history: Donald J. Trump. Has our disability movement sold out? Where are we now as Earth burns?
Many have, over the years, advocated for the development of independent funding. For the disability movement, that approach is needed now, more than ever!
Inspirations Today for Revolution
One of my inspirations for my consulting business is my friend Patch Adams, MD. Yes, that Patch Adams, the one played by Robin Williams in the movie of the same name. Patch has devoted his life to transforming the medical system. He is also a psychiatric survivor who started the influential nonprofit, the Gesundheit! Institute.
Several times I have heard Patch speak about the consequences of centuries-old mental and medical systems. When such systems trample on the human spirit for so long, the end result leads us to our current dire predicament. The cultural norms we call “normality” seems to paralyze us in the face of what can only be called a disaster that challenges the survival of us all.
One antidote to this climate paralysis for me has been working with the newly-emerged global group, Extinction Rebellion, which started in London. Watch this brief speech by XR leader George Monbiot who refers to the fact that environmental leader Greta Thunberg calls her mental disability diagnosis (on the autism spectrum) a “secret weapon”:
A Confluence of Movements for Sustainability and Disability
Aciu! Institute, LLC is a consulting business that supports the independence and empowerment of businesses, nonprofits, and individuals concerned about disability, mental health, and/or environmental sustainability.
Our specialty is disability empowerment consulting, with a focus on community organizing with psychiatric survivors.
aciu.info/
As we prepare for future challenges, now more than ever, both nonprofits and businesses need self-funding skills, community connections, and full accessibility for physical and mental disabilities, along with a commitment to environmental sustainability. We can learn important lessons from those who have
already experienced extreme disability.
We honor each person’s humanity and seek to better the human condition. In all our actions, we uphold the rights of all beings to life, on our biosphere. We support a transformation in how humanity interacts with Planet Earth!
Ask yourself these questions….
Does my nonprofit or business truly welcome, include and hear people with disabilities as customers, members and/or employees?
How can we do “disaster preparation” that includes the perspective & voice of people with disabilities?
If our group feels paralyzed by climate crisis: Who are we gonna call?
What is the best way to support the empowerment and independence of marginalized & dis-empowered communities, such as people with disabilities and psychiatric survivors?
Do people find my business accessible?
How can my rehab be “green?”
A Story of Transformation
Aciu! Institute founder and main revolutionary consultant, David W. Oaks, brings more than four decades of leadership in the independent disability movement. David draws on a global activist community of people with disabilities and psychiatric survivors.
He founded one of the main coalitions for human rights in mental health, MindFreedom International, which he directed for 25 years.
A serious 2012 accident made David a quadrapeligic (tetraplegic) in a powerchair with additional disabilities to his voice and hands.
After years of rehab and preparation, David has revolutionized these seemingly insurmountable challenges into opportunities.
“I have re-established my credentials!” said David who in 2020 is launching this green disability revolutionary consulting business. “I’m back! The next few years will decide the fate of humanity. We need the strength of the disability movement as never before.”
Let’s Be “Raving Lunatics” for the Earth!
by admin | Jan 5, 2020 | Business News, Climate Crisis, Green Disability
aciu.info/2020/01/05/lets-be-raving-lunatics-for-the-earth/
Green Disability News 1 – January 6, 2020
At this moment, as I launch this Green Disability News, almost 200 bushfires are still burning throughout Australia. Their deputy prime minister, Michael McCormack, has called Australians who are concerned about the link between climate crisis and this catastrophe: “raving lunatics.”
For more than four decades I have worked as a community organizer for human rights of psychiatric survivors. I was privileged to have colleagues like my friend Justin Dart, who championed the Americans with Disabilities Act and often called for “revolution.”
Seven years ago, I experienced a severe accident that left me a quadriplegic in a power chair.
In other words, I have “reestablished my credentials” as a leader in the disability movement, both in physical and mental disability. And I’m back. I am revolutionizing my challenges into a consulting business, Aciu! Institute, for green disability.
What is “green disability?” On the one hand, of course, we folks with disabilities need to be as environmentally conscious as possible. Yes, our rehab can be greener, our electricity can become solarized, just like anyone.
But also, “green disability,” for me, is a quick way to describe a challenge all of us modern humans share: a disconnect with nature. The disability social change movement is, some would argue, one of the largest on the planet. Everyone is just a slip or bad bicycle trip away from being disabled. Everyone who ages sufficiently joins our movement.
We in the disability movement need to do far more to address the climate crisis, NOW! Because our folks tend to be so poor and marginalized, our groups have often depended on government funding. In the USA, that means that many disability groups now have as their boss’s boss’s boss, one of the most disturbed and dangerous people in world history: Donald J. Trump. Has our disability movement sold out? Where are we now as Earth burns?
Many have, over the years, advocated for the development of independent funding. For the disability movement, that approach is needed now, more than ever!
Inspirations Today for Revolution
One of my inspirations for my consulting business is my friend Patch Adams, MD. Yes, that Patch Adams, the one played by Robin Williams in the movie of the same name. Patch has devoted his life to transforming the medical system. He is also a psychiatric survivor who started the influential nonprofit, the Gesundheit! Institute.
Several times I have heard Patch speak about the consequences of centuries-old mental and medical systems. When such systems trample on the human spirit for so long, the end result leads us to our current dire predicament. The cultural norms we call “normality” seems to paralyze us in the face of what can only be called a disaster that challenges the survival of us all.
One antidote to this climate paralysis for me has been working with the newly-emerged global group, Extinction Rebellion, which started in London. Watch this brief speech by XR leader George Monbiot who refers to the fact that environmental leader Greta Thunberg calls her mental disability diagnosis (on the autism spectrum) a “secret weapon”: