Carl - I intend to come.
Mark
Harris Carl (R3) BCH wrote:
>
> Okay
>
> A couple of people (and they know who they are) have replied, very
> discreetly, to point out that there was an important bit of
> information missing.
>
> The April event is on Friday 20^th April and will be at the Midlands
> Arts Centre in Birmingham.
>
> Look forward to seeing you there.
>
> Cheers
>
> Carl
>
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> (R3) BCH
> *Sent:* 23 February 2007 17:22
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> *Subject:* [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] April Event in Birmingham
>
> Hello All
>
> This message has 3 functions (they are the headings in bold).
>
> *Update on developments regarding the day*.
>
> Back in 2006 I sent out a set of questions, to which a number of
> people responded (many thanks to them). I had asked for responses
> before Christmas (in case there was a need to book an outside speaker).
>
> Since then I have looked at the responses and summarised them. I have
> shared this material with another member of the WMIds group. We have
> discussed the material and the practical organisation of the day in a
> WMids Group Meeting.
>
> The upshot is that there was not a clear majority in favour of an
> outside speaker but that there was a view that there should be at
> least one speaker to get us started.
>
> All this led us to the conclusion that we would suggest that members
> of the network provide an introduction to this day.
>
> We will be sending out flyers describing a “Community Psychology
> Practice Development Day”, which people can use to help their
> workplaces understand the relevance of the event.
>
> As mentioned before, the cost will be about £20.
>
> If people can give us an idea of their intention to come or otherwise,
> that would be very helpful (so far, Gareth and Annie lead the way).
> These responses may help us to reduce the cost.
>
> You can email me directly [log in to unmask]
>
> *Reminder to anybody who has been wanting to come but has forgotten to
> put it in their diary. *
>
> Get your finger out.
>
> *Prompt to the list to do some pre-debate to lead us in to the event.*
>
> * *
>
> In order to arrive on the day with the best chance possible of
> achieving something worthwhile a number of people suggested starting
> off debate in advance. There was also support for some structure to
> the day.
>
> Here is some information to get us started.
>
> Some important themes emerged from the material people sent in, I
> mention a couple of them here:
>
> · for some people there is a belief that war and torture can be
> understood separately, while for others they are part of the same
> thing “globalisation”. This was reflected in a question raised by Mark
> Burton, “how do we conceptualise the broad structuring of
> oppression?”. Understanding our answers to this question will help us
> understand the kinds of practical outputs we want to come up with at
> the end of such a day.
>
> · there is a related question for some of us of how these issues
> relate to our work and, consequently, in what capacity we would be
> attending the day? Psychologist or citizen?
>
> Mark had also mentioned a possible approach to the structure of the
> day in one of his emails. I asked him to describe it, which he did.
>
> Here it is:
>
> “I didn't have a specific model in mind but thought that as people will
>
> be together it would be worth actually trying to get a product from their
>
> presence and involvement. So a structure might involve an introductory
>
> presentation that had the structure of presenting key issues, and then
>
> groups would work to fill in a template producing a consensus statement
>
> that could then be circulated around the network and possibly agreed or
>
> published.
>
> So if for example the overall topic was:
>
> "Alternatives to neo-liberalisation"
>
> A talk could briefly sketch out what neo-liberal formulae and policies
>
> look like, and 5 key points of criticism.
>
> Then the group could work through the following:
>
> 1) How is neo-liberalisation impacting on the following:
>
> -vulnerable people in UK and abroad
>
> - communities in UK and abroad
>
> - health and welfare systems
>
> 2) What are the current trends, most worrying developments, in these
>
> areas?
>
> 3) What resistance is there to this?
>
> - what are its strengths and weaknesses
>
> 4) How might community and other critical psychologists work on this?
>
> - within psychology
>
> - in interdisciplinary contexts
>
> - as citizens
>
> This isn't meant to prescribe what it would look like but give a kind of
>
> worked example.
>
> I think the Work Tables could simply work through these - and it would
>
> Be worth having separate topics on different tables, probably relating to
>
> some kind of general scene setting. they could probably function as
>
> leaderless groups,, but it might be worth having a couple of floaters
>
> who could help get groups unstuck, watch time, etc.
>
> I've used something like this in other areas and it gets a lot of
>
> valuable material from what might otherwise just be a fell-good (or
> probably feel
>
> awful!) day.”
>
> Cheers
>
> Carl
>
>
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