In 2003, a group of persons living in poverty compared society to a landing from which one escalator goes up and another escalator goes down. “Poverty,” they essentially told some parliamentarians, “is like having to go up a down escalator. Instead of trying so hard to help us go up escalators that are going down, just fix the escalators.”
In order to stimulate exchanges around this metaphor, the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) presents in collaboration with Vivian Labrie a Presentation Kit for the facilitation of a workshop on inequalities using the escalators metaphor. This kit provides the following basic materials: a facilitator's guide found in the next sections of this document detailing the experience acquired relative to the “escalators workshop,” a poster template to be reproduced for use during the workshops, as well as a series of slides to be shown.
The purpose of this facilitator's guide is to share the practical…