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# AIDE Canada: Designing the "Impossible Conference"
- URL: https://www.co.school/work/solutions-for-longstanding-challenges-in-the-autism-community/
- Published: 2024-12-19T22:26:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-16T22:20:21.000Z
- Author: Kevan Gilbert
- Tags: Case Studies, Facilitation & retreats

**How a two-day conference helped explore solutions for longstanding challenges in the autism community**

As a convener and knowledge mobilizer in the space of autism support networks, AIDE Canada wanted to design and host a conference that brought contributors from all across Canada to tackle long-standing challenges in the autism space.   
  
Co.school helped design a multi-day engagement involving 80 participants, that followed a flow of listening, live collaboration and ideation, to help a pan-Canadian coalition of autism advocates (from government, health care, non-profit and self-advocacy) come up with new ways forward for their community.  
  
Through closer partnership with the team of co-facilitators who would work with participants, designing and delivering the keynote address, and coaching the organizers behind the scenes towards co-creating a welcome and inclusive event, the result was an energized and activated community, ready for making more change.   
  
Read more here: [Leaders and Game Changers Come Together to Drive Positive Change for the Autism Community at The Impossible Conference hosted by AIDE Canada](https://www.accesswire.com/742495/leaders-and-game-changers-come-together-to-drive-positive-change-for-the-autism-community-at-the-impossible-conference-hosted-by-aide-canada?ref=co.school)

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## What They Said

“The conversation and energy were invigorating—and I see real opportunity to come out of the solutions. Your guidance to navigate powerful conversations with those deeply invested in solutions was a true gift.”   
  
\- ****Ryan Popplestone**, Manager, Office of the Advocate for Persons with Disabilities at Government of Alberta

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