Welcome

Find out here about our work and purpose.

We are based in Scotland but operate more widely. We provide consultancy, facilitation, training and evaluation services. Well known for our work in Person Centred Planning, organisational development and Supported Living our aim is to support more inclusive societies and communities.

We work with organisations, groups, individuals, families and sometimes with the whole local community including the social care and health system.

We recognise that exclusion has a huge impact on our society, that many groups of people are affected, including those people who have labels of a learning disability, mental health issues or physical disability.

These labels tell us nothing about who the person is.

In fact, marginalising people because of labels means that our society denies itself the gifts, capacities and contributions that those of us who have been labelled bring. 

As a result, the range of work we do is diverse. Bringing together people who use services, workers and families in forums that aim for 'right relationships', and explore the use of Process Work, using large group concepts like “Deep Democracy”. We also design training for specific groups; including, managers and staff in organisations; people who use services and their families; mentoring for senior managers and advanced facilitation training courses.

We also design new services and structures that keep the person and/ or their family at the centre and in-control. We believe that more personalised services are not only possible but that there is already a lot of knowledge about how to make them happen.

Diversity Matters is a member of Altrum, a federation of small organisations and individuals committed to fostering inclusive communities and citizenship for all.