The group going from Bath to the CARN study day for practitioner-researchers at Liverpool Hope University on the 14th November, include Sonia Hutchison, Robyn Pound, Andrew Henon, Marie Huxtable, Nigel Harrisson, Chris Jones and myself. Sonia's people carrier holds 8 so there is still room for one more.

As we explore the possibilities of forming and developing a collaborative enquiry with Joan in the Centre for the Child and Family at Liverpool Hope University here are some of our recent writings:

Andy Henon - lead artist and editor of Creativity Works - http://www.jackwhitehead.com/henon/creativityworkslowah.pdf
Marie Huxtable - APEX -  http://www.jackwhitehead.com/huxtable/mhcreativityworks41to53.pdf - from Creativity/Works.
Robyn Pound - http://www.jackwhitehead.com/robynpound.html
Chris Jones - http://www.jackwhitehead.com/cjm
Nigel Harrison - How do I, as a leader and manager, support different professionals to work effectively and efficiently as a team, to the
benefit of children and young people? (http://www.actionresearch.net/bera09/nigelhBERA0809.pdf )
Jack Whitehead - Reflections on the Conference on Creativity in Croatia 28-30 September 2009 on the site of the Educational Journal of Living Theories  (http://ejolts.net/node/144) .
Sonia Hutchison - image and metaphor for pooling energy and understanding http://www.jackwhitehead.com/hutchison/soniaenergyimage.jpg

Love Jack.

On 4 Oct 2009, at 22:00, Joan Walton wrote:

Dear All, 

I should like to thank those of you who replied to my email and paper about the proposed Research & Teaching Centre for the Child and Family - I received some wonderful and confirmatory responses!  

Amongst these was an offer from CARN (Collaborative Action Research Network) to support a day with Jack Whitehead and myself, when we could explore the question "How do we integrate research and practice to improve the wellbeing of children and young people?"

It really doesn't matter what interest you have in relation to children's lives - education, care, health, music, creative arts, religion / spirituality ...................   - our challenge is for each of us to stay true to our individual interests, experience and passions, whilst connecting with others in their commitment to improving the quality of children's lives. 

I have attached a copy of the CARN flyer - and also my original paper, for those of you wishing to be reminded of the proposal which led to my asking whether you would you be interested in gathering together for a day's exploratory dialogue!!  

Please do let me know if you are interested in joining us for the day - I look forward to hearing from you.   

Best wishes,

Joan