Theme: Aim 2 Change
Learn more about how you can introduce or develop adapted climbing in your own setting or facility. Try out or deepen your understanding of systems, including the Access Harness, featured on the Climbing for All course. Graeme and team will be on hand to guide you, answer technical questions, and support you as you test the equipment and explore the activity.
Session leader: Graeme Hill
Learn more about how you can introduce or develop adapted climbing in your own setting or facility. Try out or deepen your understanding of systems, including the Access Harness, featured on the Climbing for All course. Graeme and team will be on hand to guide you, answer technical questions, and support you as you test the equipment and explore the activity.
Session leader: Graeme Hill
An opportunity for both disabled and non-disabled individuals to explore seated belaying and develop essential techniques. The focus will be on building proficiency in belaying from a seated position, as well as learning how to assess others’ belaying skills in this context. Taking place on a climbing tower, participants will have the chance to belay while seated in either a chair or a wheelchair, ensuring inclusivity and adaptability for everyone.
Graeme Hill
An opportunity for both disabled and non-disabled individuals to explore seated belaying and develop essential techniques. The focus will be on building proficiency in belaying from a seated position, as well as learning how to assess others’ belaying skills in this context. Taking place on a climbing tower, participants will have the chance to belay while seated in either a chair or a wheelchair, ensuring inclusivity and adaptability for everyone.
Graeme Hill
Around 1 in 5 working-age adults in the UK is neurodivergent. That means neurodivergent people are already in your teams, whether or not anyone has named it. Drawing on research directly with climbing wall managers and staff conducted over summer 2026, this session brings the data closer to home: how prevalent neurodivergence is in this workforce, what challenges it creates for managers, and what the evidence says about how to address them. The session will show what neurodivergent staff bring to businesses, what gets in the way of their best work, and what managers and teams can do to support them. Grounded in current UK evidence and industry data, with practical tools and principles that apply across team sizes.
Host: Sarah Castor-Perry, Kernel Consulting
