A network of immersive social innovators. Value first. Communities. Collaboration. Birmingham (GB). Michigan (US). Frankfurt (DE) #LifeScience#Socent#Health
Used to be 'frequent flyers', and many if not most are living examples of failure demand. The NHS culture blames the patient when much is under the organisations control, if only leaders could see.
“Seeing yourself as a fixer may cause you to see brokenness everywhere, to sit in judgment of life itself. When we fix others, we may not see their hidden wholeness or trust the integrity of the life in them. Fixers trust their own expertise.” Rachel Naomi Remen
Time to be in the present but not static; actively use a systemic "zoom in and out lens" to refute opposites, dichotomies and polarizations; explore mutual win-win relationships; allow possibilities to emerge...
#Systemschange#WarmData#transcontextual
“Where adults might fret over uncertainty, children often see opportunity. We ask fifth graders about their visions for the future. Their answers are full of childlike innocence – but also are strikingly pragmatic and serious.” csmonitor.com/USA/Education/…
@TheEconomist rightly critiques trad approaches 2 social care: criticizing international social care & inadequate attention given 2 community centred approaches; wonderful 2 c @BuurtzorgInt being featured as a beacon towards an preferred future. m.youtube.com/watch?v=hJCr5W…
Communication is all about relationships, interdependence, spontaneity and some improvisation that allows us to eventually and ongoingly know ourselves.
Here is my Holiday Psychology Today Blog, Happy Holidays to all!
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…#WarmData#Aphanipoiesis
"We must be the navigators, consciously evolving our collective future, and without the compass provided by evolutionary theory, we will surely be lost."
- @David_S_Wilson
As the first snow falls, I am reminded of the miracle of a snowflake. A 6 pointed star pattern with infinite variety. Every snowflake that has ever fallen, is falling, or will ever fall on earth is a different 6 pointed star. #patternthinking
If you focus on sickness, you’re going to end up with doctors as the key actors. If you focus on well-being, you’re going to end up with communities as key actors. #ABCD
“For any of us to be able to decide how our digital data are used, all of us must recognize the importance of this opportunity.” @p2173 (Lucy Bernholz) & @brigittepfry (@DigCivSoc) examine safe and equitable ways to contribute data in SSIR's new issue. ssir.org/articles/entry/the_…
When we share relational stories of differences, things beyond words, using a lens that zooms in and out, we create a simultaneous assimilation of our emerging interdependence within an ecological wholeness.
#transcontextual
#ABCD =Ppl & communities at the centre deciding as gifted citizens what they can do alone wt their own strengths/passions; collectively with fellow citizens & how those personal & associational capacities can be protected, supported & supplemented by outside agencies. #insideout
Here is my full speech at the #COP26 World Leaders Summit Opening Ceremony with a key message from Earth to COP: "Open your hearts"!
The youth voices at the World Leaders Summit will probably get the least coverage! So I'll upload them here! Share widely!