Breaking Barriers : Resilience on the Global Stage

What does it really take to compete at the highest level when you have epilepsy?

Epilepsy Scotland is All In for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, and together we are proud to present the first panel of its kind at a major sporting games, during National Epilepsy Week on the 19th of May.

Hosted by Kieron Achara MBE, one of the most respected figures in Scottish sport, the panel features Commonwealth Games silver medallist Stephanie Inglis, four-time world record-holding ultra cyclist Katie Ford, elite triathlete Annie Brooks, and World and European 400m hurdles champion Dai Greene. Together, they will speak candidly about Medic*tion management, fatigue, risk, disclosure, performance pressure and the sheer determination it takes to keep competing at the highest level.

Despite affecting around one in 100 people in Scotland, epilepsy remains widely misunderstood and often invisible. By placing it at the centre of a high-performance sporting conversation, outside the para-sport context, this session aims to broaden understanding of what inclusion truly looks like in elite sport, and to ensure invisible disabilities are part of the national and international conversation they deserve to be in.

This is not a story about limitation. It is a story about drive, resilience and what people are capable of when they refuse to be defined by their diagnosis.

Whether you work in sport, health, HR or inclusion, or simply want to be in the room when something important is being said, this is the event of the year.

Spaces are limited. Early booking is strongly advised.

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