Thanks, these are helpful suggestions.
I agree that we need to keep in mind how we are enabling/not enabling
involvement from people from a range of diverse backgrounds. I hope that our
local connections here in Great Yarmouth can help with this, as we are
putting a lot of energy into building bridges with some of the wider
communities.
I'll take this along to our local meeting as well.
Wendy
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Hi Rebekah
I agree with Annie. Good list.
Carl
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From: Annie Mitchell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 December 2005 15:35
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Hi Rebekah,
This seems a very useful list and gseems good to explicitly think about
ways of increasing diversity in the conference ( and the discussion group).
maybe worth looking at what we have already done well on this and building
on those strengths - eg use of drama/ creativity; inviting/ enabling
contributions from community members who have already got links with
community psychology ( drawing on existing relationships; thinking about
what's in it for folk - how might our conference/ networking opportunities
be made useful as resources for actions that people in great yarmouth may
be pre-occupied with anyway...;
Annie
--On 13 December 2005 15:12 +0000 Rebekah Pratt <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>
> Hi Wendy,
>
> Good to hear you back on the list! I too have been struggling with
> juggling family commitments, work and the knowledge required to keep up
> with some of the recent contributions - so that was nice for me to read
> your comments on that too.
>
> Wendy I agree that it will never be 100% right, but I admire the
> discussions you have initiated and feel sure that will positively impact
> our next gathering.
>
> I just want to re-emphasize my previous point about raising the stakes in
> relation to increasing the diversity of our contributions at conferences.
> By diversity I personally would like to see deliberate and committed
> space made for marginalised groups and perspectives, for feminist
> thought, for LGBT issues, for the area of ethnicity (minority and
> majority) and I'm sure there are many more ... I'm speaking mainly to my
> own preoccupations but with the hope it might encourage others to share
> theirs and make apparent the things that can get made invisible when we
> get together in large groups.
>
> I would like us to move back to the practical and address how we make
> that happen together, as inclusion requires much more than commitment to
> the principle. I understand that generally conferences call for
> interested people to tell organisers what it is they have to say that is
> interesting ... what I would like to see more of conference organisers
> approaching people and supporting them to share what they are doing in
> these often lesser heard areas. I am sure that our combined resource on
> this list means we are capable of generating further concrete suggestions
> together to support the organisers in making center stage the interesting
> chat and sharing that, in my experience, often happens on the fringes.
>
> So here are some thoughts... probably individualistic and over
> simplifying, but in the name of making a start somewhere for the sake of
> starting, here we go:
> - a longer process of calling for proposals, including nominating others
> we know and respect for their work in diverse areas
> - a system of supporting others who may feel less confident about talking
> in a conference setting
> - specific subsidies to support the costs of people who will add to our
> diversity aims
> - specific reference to diversity in the call for proposals
> - thematic segments of the conference to make space for this to happen
> - inviting external folk who can help stimulate this area
> - sub group networking?
>
> Are there any more suggestions out there? I think if we could share some
> strategies for expanding our diversity it would be one way to support the
> conference planning at this early stage.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Rebekah
>
>
>
> __________________________________________________
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Franks, Wendy -
> Clinical Psychologist
> Sent: 13 December 2005 14:51
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] On the subject of conferences...
>
>
>
> ...hello again from this thread!
>
> Looking at the emails that have arisen on being critical and escaping (or
> not) the critique, there's a lot of energy about here for a robust debate
> about critical approaches to psychology. It would be good to have a big
> enough space for that in the conference, don't you think?
>
> I'm aware that we got some way in terms of talking about the conference
> before things developed in a different direction, so I thought I'd drop
> in to say what's happening on the planning side.
>
> First of all, that some planning is happening, assuming that we'll be
> organising a conference in Great Yarmouth, sometime during autumn 2006,
> most likely to be September, but after Clinical Psychology trainees will
> have had their vivas (to try to be inclusive). We will try to arrange it
> for during the week, an unspecified number of days, yet to be decided,
> but probably 2 or 3, and probably with some time to think about action.
>
> We will assume, that no matter what we do, we will not get it 100% right
> for everybody, but aim to be good enough for the majority.
>
> We are having a preliminary meeting next week, for a few of us who have
> expressed some interest in arranging the event. At that time, we'll be
> thinking about who else we would like to invite to be involved in the
> planning, and would welcome suggestions. Clearly there is a role for some
> non-professional community members, and we have some good contacts with
> people from a number of different communities that we would like to ask.
> Of course, everyone is busy, and our professional conference may not be a
> high priority to everyone! There is also space for input from this list.
> There are a couple of other psychology folk from Great Yarmouth who have
> recently joined the list, and so can also get involved both in the list
> discussions and in planning meetings, so it's not just me representing
> the list to the planning group.
>
> I'll take along to the intial meetings the relevant emails that have come
> out of the list, and report back on how things develop.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Wendy
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thorne Lisa (Devon Partnership NHS Trust)
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 24 November 2005 11:32
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] On the subject of conferences...
>
>
> Hi Wendy
> Really pleased to hear the enthusiasm already brewing in
> Great Yarmouth - it will be lovely to be beside the sea!!
>
> Having been involved in the organisation of the Exeter
> conference, I would be quite happy to take a backseat and
> leave you to plan the conference locally with the occasional
> email to the group, perhaps simply to discuss a theme/focus
> as this was something that there wasn't time for at the end
> of the conference in Newcastle. I do think that it would be
> helpful to have some space to think further about the role
> of community psychology in commenting on political/global
> issues - the conversations that took place in Newcastle were
> very thought provoking but i'm not sure that we managed to
> come to a an agreement about how/when/where to make any
> statements on such issues.
>
> However, if you are asking for help/advice, I'm sure we at
> Exeter would be able to fill you in on any of the challenges
> & how we overcame them + practicalities etc - & offer
> anything else we can from a distance - just let us know!
>
> Good luck with it!
>
> Lisa
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