Thank you Annie for your book suggestion. It takes some courage to
stand up and speak ones mind, but it needn't be a grim exercise.
The evidence I am aware of is that individuals in fact are more
creative than groups in problem solving because of the conformity
issues, so each individual should feel free to be playful!!! I hope
the meetings are productive. It occurred to me that for joint
meetings in future, there is a famous Methodist church within
seconds, where John Wesley preached, and they may have a convenient
basement not set up for worship. Worth exploring? That is in the
main road in the direction of Old St. station, a classically
beautiful building too. Best wishes, Erica
On 7 Oct 2010, at 08:46, Annie Mitchell wrote:
> PS thanks for this book recommendation Erica: sounds great - some
> playfulness in considering power and its machinations very welcome.
>
> I have been enjoying a rather old book that I came across recently:
> Devid Edwards ( 1995) Free to be Human: Intellectual Self-defence
> in an Age of Delusions . I believe that the delusions we are being
> exposed to at present are very very strong and we need every tool
> of defence and defiance that we can find.
>
> A
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Annie Mitchell
> Sent: 07 October 2010 08:38
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Pressure from Health Service
> connections
>
> Dear all,
>
> I will be going tomorrow both to the morning meeting and ( part of)
> the BPS section inaugural meeting ( tho I will have to leave that
> meeting early because of train times) .
>
> For the morning meeting, I was lucky enough to secure funding from
> my University ( Plymouth) to fund attendance of 2 community women
> who have been v committed to community psychology over the years
> here in the south west, plus another academic colleague who has a
> history of involvement in strong anti-establishment community
> psychology in South Africa, all of whom I believe will be very
> helpful and constructive with us in thinking how we take UK
> community psychology forwards outside the BPS: outside the
> mainstream is in my view is where the vibrancy and creativity and
> strength of our collectivity is best placed.
>
> When we met to discuss the future organisation of community
> psychology at the last UK community psych conference, we agreed
> for pragmatic reasons that the next meeting to do so would be best
> attended, given everyone's high work/ life load, on the same day
> in London as the afternoon BPS meeting, because London is central,
> and because there would be a significant overlap of people involved
> in both. We were all aware of the tensions involved in choosing
> this as our next meeting, but it does mean we get a free meeting
> space in a central location and a chance to influence those who are
> attending the afternoon meeting.
>
> We have not been able over the email list to agree a plan or
> structure for the morning meeting, so we will have to see what
> emerges on the day ( with thanks to Elaine and Sally for their work
> in setting the meeting up) : I hope at the least we manage to achieve:
>
> 1) some planning for the handover from the last UK community
> conference to the next ( wherever it may be)
> 2) some planning for how and where to take forward plans for
> establishment of a UK community psychology collective
> 3) some influence from non- BPS members over how the BPS members
> could take forward the Section starting in the afternoon's meeting
> 4) an experience of solidarity together, esp important in the face
> of the drastic economic/ social circumstances we are currently
> facing globally and locally
> 5) perhaps a re-visit/ reminder of our Birmingham Manifesto
> ( Mark Burton - I do hope you are coming: if so, will you bring a
> copy of the latest version of the Manifesto??) . For those not
> familiar, you can find it on the UK community Psych webpage http://
> www.compsy.org.uk/
>
>
> I have offered to stand as a committee member for the BPS section
> because I have been active in progressing this development along
> with others, as democratically agreed at a previous UK
> conference. : I have considerable ambivalence about being active in
> the Section: mostly because of my high workload and consequent lack
> of capacity , but also because of remaining ambivalence about the
> value of establishing a potentially radical section within a
> conservative professional body; and also because I am not sure if I
> am sufficiently radical myself to fulfil the high ideals of many
> UK community psychology activists whose work I admire. so I am
> more than willing to stand down if there are sufficient and more
> radical others.
>
> Good wishes,
>
> Annie
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Erica Brostoff
> Sent: 07 October 2010 08:00
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> Subject: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Pressure from Health Service connections
>
> Dear All,
> I would like to recommend the thoughts contained in a chapter in book
> published this year, which addresses the situation of psychotherapy
> organisations under pressures from the Health Service to become more
> accountable. The essential message is that no-one is ever free of
> pressures and the art is to learn to work within them, to negotiate
> and use imagination to arrive at reasonably satisfactory ways of
> working together. This opportunity arises tomorrow, Friday.
>
> The book is Play and Power, (eds) Karen Mortensen and Liselotte
> Grunbaum 2010 Karnac, London, and the chapter is Power and Play: A
> tale of denigration and idealisation, by Gerhard Wilke.
>
> I am not sure how much may be quoted under the laws of copyright, but
> the final paragraph of the conclusion reads:
> "To conclude, Winnicott (1971) located playing between inside and
> outside; I have located power between the self and the other. I hope
> that these ideas can help readers to re-connect the inter-dependence
> of play and power and open a space to find strategies for using play
> power as a counter to the power play we all experience at present in
> our respective Health Systems."
>
> The various options for exploring the reasons for a Community
> Psychology Section are not limited to those put forward by Craig but
> the aim of the Section is surely to gain some power through having an
> second option as a forum for discussion of community issues to that
> already existing which gives the impression of being rather vague, to
> gain a different kind of opportunity to exercise power through a
> different kind of recognition, and also to strengthen the BPS in
> certain respects (the concept of holding to account is
> confrontational, why not be rather more creative in the terms used?)
>
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