SEEPH: let your employees experience inclusion rather than simply talk about it

Every year, the European Week for the Employment of People with Disabilities (SEEPH) is a key event for companies committed to diversity, inclusion and social responsibility. 

On this occasion, many organisations implement disability awareness initiatives, conferences, internal communication campaigns or workshops designed to change perceptions. 

These initiatives are essential for improving understanding of the realities of disability in the workplace, challenging misconceptions and fostering a more inclusive working environment. They also help open up dialogue between employees around topics that can still sometimes be difficult to address in everyday professional life. 

But one question deserves to be asked: 

How can you create a SEEPH event that employees will still remember several months later?

Providing information is essential. Living an experience is often far more impactful. 

Cognitive science shows that we remember more easily what we experience, feel and share than what we simply read or listen to. That is the whole value of an immersive disability awareness experience. 

By sharing a meal in the dark, taking part in a sensory workshop or joining a team-building activity, employees discover a new way of communicating, cooperating and perceiving their environment. 

For a few hours, familiar reference points change. Listening becomes essential. Automatic habits disappear. Roles become more balanced. Interactions take on a new dimension. 

Participants are encouraged to focus more closely on others, express their needs, ask for help or, conversely, guide their colleagues. Gestures or interactions that may seem ordinary in everyday working life suddenly take on particular importance. 

This approach makes it possible to address disability, diversity and inclusion in a concrete, human and memorable way. 

It also helps avoid a purely top-down approach to awareness-raising. Employees are no longer simply listening to a message: they become active participants in the experience. Everyone can feel, observe, exchange and draw their own lessons from what they have just experienced. 

Today, companies are looking for events capable of addressing several challenges at the same time. 

An event organised for SEEPH can help to: 

• raise employee awareness of disability; 

• strengthen team cohesion; 

• encourage dialogue around diversity and inclusion; 

• develop listening, trust and cooperation; 

• create a friendly and unifying moment; 

• highlight the company’s CSR and HR commitments; 

• strengthen employer branding. 

Far from being a simple activity, this experience becomes a genuine management and team development tool. 

In a context where companies are placing increasing importance on quality of working life, diversity and employee engagement, offering an experience that is original, human and meaningful can give SEEPH a particularly strong dimension. 

The collective nature of the experience is also essential. Participants share the same moment, but each person perceives it differently. The conversations that follow make it possible to compare feelings, share surprises and sometimes challenge certain preconceived ideas. 
 

Not all companies have the same objectives or constraints. That is why several formats can be considered in order to create a tailor-made event. 

H3 : The immersive restaurant 

Lunch or dinner in the dark, guided and served by visually impaired professionals. A unique human experience that transforms conversations around diversity, inclusion and skills. 

Temporarily deprived of sight, participants have to learn to find their bearings differently, communicate more with the people around them and trust their guides. 

The experience therefore creates a genuine reversal of roles: visually impaired professionals become the people who have full command of the environment and guide participants through a new situation. 

The meal then becomes much more than a simple convivial moment. It provides a particularly suitable setting for discussions about perceptions of disability, skills and the way each person adapts to their environment. 

H3 : Olfactory workshops 

Discover the power of smell, explore sensory memory and enjoy an original collaborative experience. 

These workshops offer a different way of exploring perception, attention and complementarity, while discovering the first products from the world of perfumery and luxury created with the essential and exceptional contribution of visually impaired experts. 

H3 : Team-building games 

Collective challenges where communication, trust and collective intelligence take on their full meaning. An original way to raise awareness among teams while developing their ability to cooperate. 

Sensory challenges are guided and facilitated by our teams, either in complete darkness or in the light, followed by valuable discussion time about the everyday realities of disability in the workplace. 

H3 : The Dark Lab 

Would you like to organise a SEEPH activity directly on your premises? 

The Dark Lab makes it possible to bring an immersive experience directly into your company. Modular and mobile, it can accommodate large numbers of participants and raise awareness among several hundred employees over the course of a day or throughout the week. 

It is a solution particularly well suited to large groups, head offices or multi-site companies. 

H3 : Bar Silence and Silent Parties 

Transform a breakfast, cocktail reception, after-work event or company evening into a festive, warm and deeply human experience. An original way to conclude a day of awareness-raising or continue the conversations in a friendly setting.

Whether you want to organise an event for 20, 40, 80 or several hundred employees, it is possible to create a format suited to your objectives, logistical constraints and the time available. 

Restaurant, immersive activity, sensory workshop, mobile experience or a combination of several formats: every project is designed to measure.

The immersive experience is accompanied by cuisine recognised for its quality. 

A Maître Restaurateur restaurant recognised by Gault&Millau, Dans le Noir ? offers creative, responsible and predominantly organic cuisine. 

The famous surprise menu invites guests to rediscover their senses while accommodating each person’s dietary requirements, allergies and individual constraints. 

A gastronomic experience that also becomes a powerful conversation starter.

Its impact, however, can create lasting changes in the way employees perceive disability. 

Planning ahead makes it possible to build a coherent event, choose the most suitable format and offer teams an experience that combines awareness, cohesion, conviviality and enjoyment. 

This year, let your employees experience inclusion rather than simply talk about it. 

Discover all the solutions available to organise an original, impactful and tailor-made SEEPH event, and let us create together an experience that will leave a lasting impression on your employees.