A family of two specialised information and suggestion publications are developed to encourage Inclusivity for dancers with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Social Anxiety.

These documents are specially written publication that provides insight into the challenges of an independent person with hidden differences in specific partner dancing environments like Salsa Bachata, Kizomba, Cuban Salsa and many more.

The documents also provide a variety of solutions and suggestions to make sure a person with hidden can able to maintain a positive experience without compromising situations which can affect their presence

Why this was created
Despite the dancing environments having a variety of people with different backgrounds, I have observed and experienced many situations when some people with hidden differences can be at a disadvantage and in some cases become discouraged. Especially if there's little or no ground-level understanding provided. These documents are designed to enable and improve inclusive environments regardless of the specific difficulties, strengths and any ability and capacity limitations.

The documents
Two publications were made for different environments. These documents are available to download to read on your digital & desktop devices.
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These documents featured extracts from Plus Value Awareness.
The Author cannot be responsible of any error that may occor
© Copyright Keith Mckenzie.

Main Version
The main version focuses on Latin-related dancing classes, workshops, social dances and parties

Conventions & Festivals
Focuses for Latin related dancing events, festivals and conventions

Additional information
Even though these documents are mainly for dancers with hidden differences some of the helpful could be helpful for other neurological difficulties, invisible disabilities and those experiencing anxiety.
The History
The Beyond Understanding publication focused on salsa dance classes and social events for dancing environments was originally written in 2019 then was recreated in 2022 it was originally for the salsa dancing organisations linked with the NEC based Salsa dancing convention "MotionCity" including Birmingham's Latinmotion and London's Mambo city.

Since the first document was created further issues occurred which I felt through my observations and listening to different viewpoints. So updated suggestions of conventions and documents were published during Summer 2022 with additional information and greater insight which can support event management and crew members.


Later in 2022, these publications were updated with two additional versions for Dancing Conventions with a guidance document for volunteers living with hidden differences during dancing conventions featured on the website of the award-winning awareness campaigner Anna Kennedy OBE.


A year after the information awareness dancing project "Inclusive to Dance" the feature publications are updated and now available online directly via the Websites of Plus Value Awareness and my website available to everyone.


Discover more
To anyone involved in dancing if you need to benefit from this document and would like additional aspects to spread the word and could benefit your dancing community, organisation, convention & events, get in touch via my LinkedIn profile