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If this is a serious request, I have the very post card if that's helpful Bob -----Original Message----- From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Annie Mitchell Sent: 31 October 2007 20:26 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] formalising our network Re a logo: for the Exeter conference we had a fantastic logo designed for us by socialist participatory artist Ken Sprague. we had lots of positive feedback about it and I think it gave us a good sense of collective identity and meaning ( do people remember: it was a fishy: many small fish collectively eating up one big fish. I could try to see if we still had it somewhere useable? Annie Annie Mitchell Clinical Director, Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, School of Applied Psychosocial Studies, Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth, Peninsula Allied Health Collaboration, Derriford Road, Plymouth, Devon PL6 8BH Phone Programme Administrators: Jane Murch, Emma Hellingsworth 01752 233786 Please note I work 3 days per week: usually Monday, Tuesday & either Wednesday or Thursday. From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul@home Sent: 31 October 2007 17:59 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: formalising our network Yes, 50 Euro discount might be the carrot, and the threat of our network being subsumed by the BPS (if we are successful in opening up a CP section in the BPS in the next year or two) might be the stick. ICCP2 (Second International Conference on Community Psychology) will soon be asking us if we have a logo for the CPUK network that we can place on their conference website to show the support and solidarity of com psys in the UK with other com psychs in the world. Anyone fancy designing a logo? Anyone object to having a logo? (no idea what would happen if someone did object given we have no agreed method of reaching a collective decision on anything). am happy to have a go if a few others want to join me. Who knows, if we can all agree on a logo, it might open a path for us to try and decide on a minimal set of core principles and some consensus on how to properly constitute our network .... As mentioned by others, the process of setting out some core principles was begun in Birmingham but has yet to be taken up by the network/discussion list. The UKCP conference in York introduced the idea of shaping our network into a community co-operative but again our network/discussion list has failed to take up the idea. Perhaps it is time to roll back the Thatcher years and rebuild our social institutions so that they stand for something more than the individual ... we can start with our own CPUK network. Seems the time is right given CP is taking centre stage in Europe next year (in Lisbon) and CP might become a part of the BPS a year or two after. Wouldn't it be a shame if at that conference 'the world' doesn't see our network but only sees the few individuals (a few individual UK-based academics, even fewer individual UK-based practioners and even fewer still individual UK-based service survivors/users) who can secure the funding and leave to go. Wouldn't it be a shame if our network's first set of rules and regs becomes those of the BPS (in so far as the BPS section would be the only formally constituted part of our network) and we become subjects (literally) to the society's Royal Charter and find teh ability of our network as a whole to speak potentially circumvented by BPS regs that states any action that brings the BPS or the profession of psychology into disrepute would be regarded as a breach of social ethics. While joining the BPS will offer our network many benefits, surely we don't want their rules and regs to be ours and that we want our own constitution to protect ourselves from theirs - one that licenses us to show how psychology is disreputable or at least protects us if/when psychology turns on us to tell us that we are the disreputable ones. Can we first move to becoming a collective of individuals that is formally constituted and then move to become an individual collective that is politically formidable? p p Paul Duckett Division of Psychology and Social Change Manchester Metropolitan University England Phone +44 161 247 2552 Fax +44 161 247 6364 email: [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jacqueline Akhurst (J.Akhurst) Sent: 31 October 2007 11:03 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: 30th anniversary of community psychology in Italy Hi David, I'm supportive of your message - I think it's important for us to be active in making links with our European counterparts, and trying to widen our links with them, particularly if we are thinking towards some sort of collective organisation which may seek to affiliate with the ECPA. By the way, I see from the flyer for the ICCP in Lisbon 4 - 6 June (see http://www.2iccp.com/ ) that there's a 50 Euro fee reduction for 'members of 'National Community Psychology Associations' - might this be the sort of carrot for us to try and formalise our 'cooperative'? Thanks, Jacqui ___________________________________ COMMUNITYPSYCHUK - The discussion list for community psychology in the UK. To unsubscribe or to change your details visit the website: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/COMMUNITYPSYCHUK.HTML For any problems or queries, contact the list moderator Rebekah Pratt on [log in to unmask] or Grant Jeffrey on [log in to unmask] ___________________________________ COMMUNITYPSYCHUK - The discussion list for community psychology in the UK. 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