This month Payge will be travelling to Alice Springs in the Northern Territory to deliver important training to people with disabilities.
Beth, Matt and Payge will be delivering workshops on how to facilitate and host a PATH – Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope (future goal setting in schools and young adults for people with disabilities).
Payge talks about her excitement in the lead up to this journey and the opportunities this wonderful work brings her.
Recently, Payge and Jodi met with Minister Leeanne Enoch to discuss the important work P2P does for our community.
Hi, it’s Payge again, keeping you updated.
This week, I will be going to Alice Springs in the Northern Territory to deliver training to people with disabilities on how to facilitate and host a PATH – Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope (future goal setting in schools and young adults for people with disabilities).
It will be amazing but hot, I think up to 40 degrees which is usual since it is central-northern Australia also known as The Red Desert.
My colleagues and I have been meeting every week to discuss and work on our training manual and presentation and how to make it in Easy Read.
I am excited to be using my skills and my 3 years of experience of working at P2P and working with Matt and Beth to increase my knowledge and determination and my confidence on the many projects that I do.
I made great connections with my colleagues, I am on time with my work, I am reliable when I get handed work that I need to complete, and I work well in a team.
I can relate to people who I make friends with, especially when it comes to people with disabilities, since I also have a disability. But the most important thing that I have while working for 3 years is trust. Trusting in my colleagues and trusting in myself, that I can do anything when I set my mind to it.
Yes, I know it is a lot of work before you can do the fun stuff. It’s like a race. You’re at the start and want to get it over and done with but you need to put the effort into things to actually achieve it.
That’s what I did and still do at work, but at the end of it, you will be able to go travelling, or do whatever you like. That is the reward for finishing the race. Or like I keep hearing (icing on the cake)
My reward for completing that race is travelling to Alice Springs with Matt and Beth from Parent 2 Parent to help others reach their own goals in life.
Pictured: Minister Leeanne Enoch at Queensland’s Parliament House
