Inclusion is the proactive and continuous practice of creating a context where people are embraced in their full and complex identities, given as much access to engagement as possible, and treated with dignity and respect. (- The Meaningful Engagement Handbook)

Inclusion is when space is made in the institution for members of the formerly excluded group, and there is a conscious effort to ensure that it is experienced on an equitable basis. This becomes belonging when the “members of the group are made to feel as if they belong in the institution, and when members of those groups have a say in the organisation, design, construction, or reconstruction of that institution. (- Menendian and powell, 135-138)