Hello all,
I thought I'd let the dust settle from all the activity around the response
to the BPS following the last conference, before starting up another
(hopefully) big topic!
I wondered if we could use some space and time to reflect on the last
conference and to think about plans for the next one.
Gillian Bowden and I offered at the end of the Newcastle conference that we
would be prepared to host the conference next year in Great Yarmouth.
After recovering from the shock, and on further reflection, I have been
feeling quite excited about the prospect...
...excited, and a more than just a little nervous about matching the
standard of UK CP Network conferences that I've attended over the last few
years!
Each of the conferences had a different, local flavour, and I think that
this has been a wonderful part of the experience. So hopefully being
different is no bad thing, and there is enough that has been similar to
provide a framework on which to build.
I am getting in touch with the list at this point to confirm that people
would like us to organise the next conference, and that there is an interest
in coming all the way over Great Yarmouth next year. (we love to be beside
the seaside here, and hope you will too)
If so, I would like to invite people from the list to talk about whatever
ways you'd like to be involved in planning the next conference. Clearly
there are practicalities regarding planning over distances, and we are
prepared to do the leg-work involved in getting things organised. I'd like
to find out how much involvement people would like to have, how much you'd
like to know about our thoughts and ideas and developing plans, and to what
extent it seems possible to organise an event such as this by consensus!
We have a number of people locally who are very excited by the prospect of
putting on the conference here in 2006 (including me!), and I hope that we
can cover most of the practical elements of organising the conference. We've
had a few discussions already about how we'd like it to develop, and how
we'd like to draw on our own local flavour to make it interesting and
productive. In general, I think it would be great if we could involve the
list members to be involved in shaping the conference, from deciding on a
theme, to discussing the practicalities in terms of how many days, what
days, what activities, when, etc. I also wondered if people wanted to be
involved in activities such as reviewing abstracts, or at least to take some
advice about the process from previous conference organisers.
So, hopefully this isn't too soon after the last conference to start
preparing...
Wendy
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Wendy Franks
Clinical Psychologist
Primary Care & Psychological Services
Norfolk & Waveney Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Northgate Resource Centre
Northgate Hospital
Great Yarmouth
NR30 1BU
Tel: (01493) 337715
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