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10/18/2026

Conversation Guides And Practical Application Exercises | Anthony Corona Media, Home Of The Sunday Edition Family Of Podcasts | By Anthony Corona | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
http://www.anthonycorona.com

Are responsibilities and expectations no longer matching up?

Are your relationships feeling strained? Is communication breaking down? Are you or your organization struggling with disengagement, unresolved tensions, or conversations that nobody seems willing to have?

Or maybe nothing is particularly wrong.

Maybe it is simply time for a check-in.

A chance to explore where you are, where your relationships stand, how your organization is functioning, and whether the expectations, responsibilities, and goals you have established still reflect where you want to go.

Sometimes the most meaningful progress begins with asking better questions.

Anthony Corona Media, home of the Sunday Edition Family of Podcasts and Digital Media Content Services, offers a growing collection of conversation guides, relationship exploration checklists, practical application exercises, and advocacy resources designed to help individuals, families, organizations, and communities examine the relationships and behaviors that shape their everyday lives.

Explore emotional awareness, gratitude, perspective, personal responsibility, expectations, and the choices we make in responding to life's challenges.

Our conversation guides and practical exercises encourage participants to recognize emotional triggers, examine patterns of behavior, and develop more intentional approaches to personal growth and relationships.

Are you communicating what you actually mean? Are your expectations understood? Are boundaries being respected? Are you listening to understand or simply waiting for your turn to respond?

Explore trust, communication, accountability, autonomy, emotional influence, and the differences between our intentions and the impact of our behavior.

Sometimes the problem is not the mission. Sometimes it is what is happening between the people trying to carry it out.

Our practical exercises, including "How Are We Communicating?" and "Are Your Deliverables Matching Your Expectations?" help leadership teams, members, and volunteers examine organizational culture, communication breakdowns, participation, accountability, and longstanding tensions.

These resources can help organizations identify obstacles, encourage meaningful engagement, and create opportunities for more productive conversations.

Effective advocacy begins with understanding the issue, identifying the desired outcome, and communicating concerns clearly.

Our growing collection includes transportation advocacy resources, practical exercises, and correspondence templates addressing accessibility, paratransit, rideshare services, and communication with local, state, and federal agencies, including the Department of Transportation and Department of Justice.

Additional advocacy resources are currently in development.

These resources are not one-size-fits-all programs.

They can be adapted for individuals, couples, families, faith-based communities, consumer organizations, nonprofit groups, membership associations, leadership teams, corporate team-building programs, and organizational retreats.

Anthony Corona or one of our Anthony Corona Media conversation partners can facilitate these conversations for you, whether through an individual session, organizational meeting, workshop, or series of discussions.

We can also work directly with you to adapt the conversation guides, checklists, and practical exercises to your particular circumstances, providing the resources and guidance you need to facilitate your own conversations.

Or we can combine both approaches, helping you begin the conversation and equipping you to continue the work independently.

Our exercises are not designed to determine who is right or wrong.

They are designed to encourage honest reflection, respectful dialogue, active listening, greater understanding, and practical steps toward healthier relationships and more effective organizations.

And these are not simply theoretical tools.

Organizations are already putting them to work, addressing longstanding communication challenges, examining leadership expectations, and encouraging members to participate more openly and meaningfully.

Whether you are looking for personal growth, stronger relationships, healthier family communication, more engaged organizational members, improved leadership collaboration, or more effective advocacy, we would love to explore how these resources can work for you.

For information about our Conversation Guides and Practical Application Exercises, customized programs, speaking engagements, and facilitated conversations, contact us at [email protected].

The Sunday Edition Family of Podcasts and Digital Media Content Services, part of Anthony Corona Media, can be found at https://www.anthonycorona.com.

Because sometimes the most important thing we can bring to a conversation is not another opinion.

It is the willingness to listen.

10/16/2026

The 19th Annual Laugh For Sight Comedy Benefit With Brian Fischler At Gotham Comedy Club | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy Of The PWD Media Co-Op
📅 Monday, October 26, 2026 • 7:00–10:30 PM Eastern
🔗 Learn More: https://www.brianfischler.com/laugh-for-sight
✏️ Register: https://gothamcomedyclub.com/events/laugh-for-sightrr0o2ld/
📧 Questions: [email protected]

📍 When & Where
Monday, October 26 • Doors, silent auction and cocktail hour at 7:00 PM Eastern • Comedy show at 8:30 PM • Show ends at 10:30 PM. Gotham Comedy Club, Main Showroom, 208 West 23rd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, New York, NY 10011 • (212) 367-9000.

❓ Why Attend
The 19th Annual Laugh For Sight brings some of the funniest comedians in the business together for one night of stand-up in support of the blindness community. In founder Brian Fischler's words, this year's lineup is stacked.

🎤 The Lineup
👉 Host: Shaun Eli
👉 Mark Normand
👉 Aaron Berg
👉 Cory Kahaney
👉 Peter Revello
👉 Mike Yard
👉 Brian Fischler, with his guide dog Wesley
The lineup is subject to change.

💙 Who It Supports
All proceeds go to two organizations serving people who are blind or have low vision:
👉 The Seeing Eye in Morristown, NJ, which breeds and trains guide dogs, and trains the people who work with them, so blind and visually impaired people can travel independently.
👉 InTandem, New York City's only dedicated tandem cycling program, which pairs riders who are blind or have low vision with sighted volunteer captains.

🎟️ Tickets
👉 General admission: $50 plus a two-drink minimum
👉 VIP: $150, including preferred seating and an open bar
Corporate tables, social tables and sponsorships are available through [email protected].

😂 Nineteen Years Of Laughs
Laugh For Sight is a New York City non-profit that raises funds and public awareness for retinal degenerative eye diseases, specifically Retinitis Pigmentosa, Stargardt's Disease and Macular Degeneration. It began at Gotham Comedy Club in October 2005, and more than 120 comedians have donated their time since, including Jerry Seinfeld, Robert Klein, Sarah Silverman, Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burr, Lewis Black and John Oliver. The show has also played the Improv in West Hollywood and the Ritz-Carlton South Beach.

👤 Meet The Founder
Brian Fischler was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at thirteen and has been blind since 2009. A comedian, accessibility consultant and host of That Real Blind Tech Show, he has performed at Gotham Comedy Club, Carolines on Broadway, the Hollywood Improv, the Comedy Store and the Laugh Factory. His guide dog Wesley has been on the job since 2019.

📣 Pass It On
Brian is asking everyone to share the flyer with anyone who could use a good laugh for a great cause. Can't make it? The Laugh For Sight website takes donations through PayPal: https://www.laughforsight.com/

10/16/2026

From Isolation to Connection: Building a Community Where We Can Connect, Learn, and Act Together | By Dr. Kirk Adams, Executive Director, ISDI | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/isolation-to-connection-building-a-community/

Here, Dr. Kirk Adams introduces Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT), a framework that grew out of the work of Jean Baker Miller and her colleagues at Wellesley College's Stone Center, and explains how it has deepened his thinking about inclusion. Relationships were central to his Antioch University dissertation on blind adults successfully employed in American corporations, but he did not encounter RCT until after earning his PhD, when he heard Dr. Harriet Schwartz present on it with Dr. Elizabeth Holloway, one of his professors in the Leadership and Change program. RCT holds that people grow through and toward connection, and that systems of power such as racism and ableism shape who is heard, believed, and welcomed. Dr. Adams focuses on the RCT concept of "condemned isolation," arguing that for people with disabilities this isolation is often socially manufactured by inaccessible workplaces, low expectations, and exclusion from informal networks. The answer, he writes, is not to "fix" the isolated individual but to transform the relationships, cultures, and systems that produce the isolation.

Dr. Adams previews his November 13 session with Dr. Ileya Grosman's RCT-informed Leadership and Change group, where he will explore disability lived experience through a relational-cultural lens. He presents RCT as one of many frameworks members can bring to the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion, which he describes as a living community where scholarship meets experience and ideas lead to action, not an echo chamber. He closes by inviting readers to bring their own frameworks, questions, and lived experience, and to explore together what creates genuine belonging and how communities can move from isolated survival to sustainable collective power.

10/16/2026

What Bookmarks Were Meant to Be | SimpleSurf.ai | By Aaron Di Blasi | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://simplesurf.ai/blog/what-bookmarks-were-meant-to-be/

Bookmarks were meant to get you back to a page instantly. Simple Surf is built around that one job. Every link is visible on one board, just one or two clicks away, and always instantly findable by typing. It gives up deep folder trees and saved copies of pages on purpose, because every extra click and every extra second is time you pay again tomorrow.

10/16/2026

Sensory Beyond Sight: A Tuition-Free Choreography Workshop With Davian "DJ" Robinson At Dark Room Ballet | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
📅 Friday, November 6, 2026 • 4:00–5:30 PM Eastern
🔗 Learn More: https://darkroomballet.com/sensory-beyond-sight-a-choreographic-workshop-series-with-davian-dj-robinson/
✏️ Register: Email [email protected] with the subject line "Sensory Beyond Sight"

📍 When & Where

Friday, November 6 • 4:00–5:30 PM Eastern (1:00–2:30 PM Pacific) • Live on Zoom • 90 minutes • Tuition-free. The next session is Friday, December 4, at the same time.

🩰 About The Workshop

Sensory Beyond Sight cultivates movement using breath, touch, spatial hearing, weight and proprioception rather than sight. Developed by visually impaired choreographer DJ Robinson, the practice helps participants:

👉 Discover liberating, imaginative movement without visual imitation
👉 Deepen body awareness in time and space
👉 Build trusting partnerships that translate verbal cues into motion

✋ Choreography By Touch

DJ often designs choreography on a tactile drafting board or felt board, using magnetic or Velcro pieces to represent dancers and pathways, so he can map formations by touch and communicate spatial ideas clearly. The workshop page suggests optional tactile tools, from Wikki Stix to drawing and diagramming kits from the American Printing House for the Blind.

👤 Your Teaching Artist

Davian "DJ" Robinson is a visually impaired dancer, choreographer and performer. Drawing on his lived experience and athletic movement style, he creates choreography that is physically powerful and emotionally resonant, blending dynamic storytelling with raw embodiment. Through performance and education, he challenges conventions and opens new possibilities for inclusive expression in the arts.

🎓 About Dark Room Ballet

Dark Room Ballet is an independent, grant-funded, tuition-free, pre-professional fine arts program for blind and visually impaired adults, taught by expert blind and visually impaired teaching artists. Conceived by Artistic Director Krishna Washburn, it offers virtual, collegiate-level courses in ballet, Simonson jazz, choreography, improvisational dance, movement somatics, dancer's anatomy, vocal training, visual arts and dramatic arts, plus professional development for audio describers of dance. Think of it as a tuition-free fine arts college designed for and by blind and visually impaired people.

💙 Support Dark Room Ballet

Dark Room Ballet is fiscally sponsored by Disability Power Bloc, making donations tax deductible.
Donate: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/template-dark-room-ballet

📣 Pass It On

Dark Room Ballet is asking the community to help spread the word. If you know a blind or visually impaired dancer or choreographer, please share this with them today.

10/16/2026

🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #116: Interview with Jerry Nicholson, Co-Founder, Accessible Data | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-10-13-2026/

In this inspiring episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna J. Jodhan welcomes Jerry Nicholson, co-founder of Accessible Data, from the UK. Jerry traces his path from studying geography at the University of Edinburgh and qualifying as a chartered accountant to moving to Bangladesh with his wife, Fiona, after the two of them read Muhammad Yunus's Banker to the Poor. There they set up Tindercapital to bring early stage venture capital to businesses that could scale, invested in the eco-friendly manufacturer Oasis Coffins, and ran Open Accelerator for rural entrepreneurs. Jerry speaks openly about how hard that first investment was, including a breakdown just before COVID that he says he has fully recovered from.

Jerry then explains how the platform he and his business partner, Christophe Geiser, built under the name Preignition became an accessible survey tool after the International Disability Alliance found that many of its members could not fill in its global survey and put out an open call. Jerry describes the barriers people face with online forms, from keyboard navigation to sign language and Easy Read needs, and why forms that shut disabled people out leave them unheard and leave organizations with biased data. Donna presses the point that organizations too often collect lived experience for free, Jerry says a paid panel of disabled respondents could be a future product, and Donna closes by inviting him to write an article for https://barrierfreecanada.org.

10/16/2026

🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #117: Interview with Joel Snyder, President, Audio Description Associates, LLC | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-10-14-2026/

In this illuminating episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna J. Jodhan welcomes Joel Snyder, who takes listeners back to his years as a volunteer reader at the Metropolitan Washington Ear and explains how audio description began. Joel credits Dr. Margaret Pfanstiehl, the blind founder of the Washington Ear, and Chet Avery, a blind man at the Department of Education, with the idea that grew into the first professionally described theater production, Major Barbara at Arena Stage in the summer of 1981, and he credits Gregory Frazier, whose San Francisco master's thesis he says was the first published work on the subject. He traces description from live theater to television with WGBH, then to DVDs, movie theaters and streaming services, and points listeners to the American Council of the Blind's Audio Description Project at https://adp.acb.org.

Donna and Joel also talk about how his training as an actor shapes his teaching, with observation as the first of his four fundamentals of audio description, and why he says the best compliment a describer can get is "I forgot you were there." Joel looks back on his 20 years at the National Endowment for the Arts and his work describing Sesame Street at the National Captioning Institute, and he shares the stories of a blind mother following Sesame Street with her children and a young blind girl who asked Fred Rogers to say aloud when he fed his fish. Looking ahead, he predicts description built into productions from the start and delivered through smartphone apps, and he mentions his book, The Visual Made Verbal, which he says is now in print in seven languages.

10/15/2026

Designing For All: BBC StoryWorks Film Shows How P&G's Sam Latif Makes Everyday Products Easier To Identify By Touch | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy Of The PWD Media Co-Op
🔗 Watch The Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNmjm2um6gc
🔗 The All In Series: https://www.bbc.com/storyworks/specials/all-in-the-valuable-500/
🔗 P&G On Accessible Packaging: https://us.pg.com/blogs/accessible-and-sustainable-packaging/

🎬 About The Film

In "The Difference Is In The Details," Sumaira "Sam" Latif, P&G's Company Accessibility Leader, shows how tactile markings on P&G packaging help blind and low-vision people tell products apart in the store and at home. The 3½-minute film was produced for P&G by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions and is part of All In, a 10-film series presented by The Valuable 500 on disability inclusion and accessible innovation.

👤 Where The Idea Came From

Sam began losing her sight at age 3 or 4 and is now 97% blind. When her kitchen cupboard grew confusing and she struggled to tell her cleaning products apart, she asked a simple question: what if a little symbol on a package could tell someone like her what is inside? She shared the idea with colleagues at P&G.

🛠️ How It Was Built

P&G worked with more than 50 blind and deafblind people to test whether the symbols were intuitive and tactile enough. As Sam explains, very few blind people read braille, but a tactile symbol is easy for anyone to remember.

✋ How The Symbols Work

Stripes mean cleaning and circles mean conditioning.

👉 Body wash: one stripe, for one body
👉 Shampoo: lots of stripes, for lots of hair
👉 Conditioner: lots of circles
👉 Face moisturizer: one circle, for one face

🏆 Recognized By The Industry

OLAY Regenerist Face Moisturizer, the first facial moisturizer with a tactile symbol on its cap, a raised circle molded into the lid, earned Best in Class for Universal Design at the 76th annual PAC Global Awards. OLAY Indulgent Moisture Body Wash, the first body wash with a tactile symbol directly on the bottle, earned a 2025 Best in Class award for Inclusive Design.

🌍 What Comes Next

Sam hopes tactile symbols will spread to more products, until every package in every store can be understood by touch. For her, it means living with confidence and independence.

♿ Accessibility

The film includes audio description. In the YouTube player, select Settings (the gear icon), then Audio track, then English Descriptive.

📣 Please Share

In support of Sam's good work at P&G, please watch the film and share it widely!

10/15/2026

Inclusion Isn't Just The Right Thing To Do, It's A Strategic Advantage: Dr. Kirk Adams On The Intersection Podcast With Zhou Fang | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy Of The PWD Media Co-Op
🔗 Learn More: https://bit.ly/4ylEj0m
🎧 Listen On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5d7TuZSD8hE0ZJMJcQvl0s
📱 Other Podcast Apps: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/the-intersection-by-ig/

🎙️ About The Episode

Dr. Kirk Adams joins host Zhou Fang on The Intersection, presented by Intersectional Group, for a 53-minute conversation released October 13, 2026: "Inclusion Isn't Just The Right Thing To Do. It's A Strategic Advantage." with Dr. Kirk Adams, on Blindness, Employment and Disability Advocacy, Accessibility, and Inclusion As Culture.

🎯 What You Will Hear

👉 Growing up as a blind child, and how that lived experience shaped his advocacy and his philosophy for people with disability
👉 Why accessibility and inclusion are not only the right things to do, but also strategic advantages for businesses and organizations
👉 Inclusion as culture, in Dr. Adams' own words: "I define culture (as) that's the way we do things around here."

In Zhou's words: "I recommend everyone who cares about disability advocacy and inclusion listen to this conversation."

🤝 The Coalition

Dr. Adams and Zhou also talk about the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion, which opened its doors on September 1, 2026. Learn how to join: https://drkirkadams.com/how-to-join-the-ccsdi/

👤 Your Host

Zhou Fang is the founder and principal practitioner of Intersectional Group, the Portland, Oregon consulting practice she founded in 2022, and an Abundance Mindset teacher and intersectionality practitioner. The Intersection is her podcast about intersectionality, identity, personal and professional journeys, the abundance mindset, hope, and more, with guests from around the world.

🌟 Your Guest

Dr. Kirk Adams is the managing director of Innovative Impact, LLC and the executive director of the Institute for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion (ISDI). He is based in Seattle.

🔁 The Other Side Of The Conversation

Dr. Adams discovered Zhou's podcast in his own listening, and welcomed her as his guest on Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams on October 1, 2026: https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-10-01-2026/

📣 Please Share

If disability inclusion matters to you or your organization, please listen, subscribe to The Intersection, and pass this conversation along.

10/15/2026

🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #113: Interview with Shaun Kelly, Pottery Instructor, SoKo Pottery Studio | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-09-21-2026/

In this heartfelt episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA welcomes her pottery instructor, Shaun Kelly, who shares how clay first came into his life through his mother, and how a career as a programmer and IT project manager that kept him always on call, and at 350 pounds, gave way on his doctor's advice to a healthier life in pottery. He credits his first teacher, Pauline Harman, for the projects-and-templates approach he still uses with beginners, and his mentor, Sandi Dunkelman, for teaching him everything from throwing to loading kilns, making glazes and running a sale.

Shaun talks listeners through centering clay on the wheel and his "wiggle, wiggle, wiggle" method for rolling an even slab, describes how simple pinch pots helped a man named Ricardo rebuild his motor skills after a stroke, and remembers Studio on the Hill as a safe space where everyone who walked in the door was a potter. He explains how SoKo, named for his initials, became his own studio when he took it on on May 1st, and shares plans for a Christmas show and sale on November 6th, 7th and 8th, a possible spring sale and an Empty Bowls fundraiser, while Donna looks ahead to her Canadiana line.

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