February. Cold Weather Hot Curry!
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Hi team,
The February Curry Night will be Thursday 25th February 7.30pm at Shafiqs Balti, Stone Staffordshire, ST15 8DA.
Hope to see you there.
Steve & team
Friday, 5 February 2010
Friday, 29 January 2010
DIARY DATE: Curry & catch up for SFP folk
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Hi team,
The Staffordshire Community of Practice will be meeting on the evening of Thursday 25th February for a chat and update on all matters SFP.
We will be meeting in Stone, Staffordshire. Time and precise venue to follow.
All the best,
Steve
Steve Freeman,
Research Nurse, Solution Focused Approaches Manager, Clinical Effectiveness Support Unit.
Lecturer Keele University.
01782 441653
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
community development and SF idea
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Hi Steve, my first few steps through my Community Arts MA has been to explore the history of community development, mainly in the context of regeneration. Although this may seem a world away from working in the health context there are many parallels when viewed through an SF lens.
Much of the literature into community capacity building indicate the failure to engage with the resources (social capital) that exists in every community. The approach tends to be from a pathological perspective i.e "This community is deprived and need outside help to fix it's problems which are....".
Evidently stakeholders have been overlooking the true assets that exist, the kinship, relationships, networks, knowledge and community's ability to find localised solutions, sounds familiar?
Now the big shift in policy has been to discover and tap into the resources inherent in communities however this requires a shift in thinking from being the expert parachuted in to fix the problem to expert in discovering the experts.
Where does art fit in? Well, let's just say that if you give people the choice to attend a meeting with suits, minutes, fixed agendas and bureaucracy or to engage in activities that creatively tap into their expertise then you tend to find the latter wins!
Carl Plant (RMN)
Caseload Manager
Condition Management Programme
NHS North Staffordshire
07809586183
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Sunday, 17 January 2010
New Year, Fresh start
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Hi team,
Hoping to re-engage with the website and the Staffordshire Community of Practice in 2010.
I'm sure that there is plenty of SFP activity going on. I hear snippets and anecdotes regularly and hope to start posting them for others to share.
As a start:
Curry nights (not always with curry!). Following agreat evening with carl Plant and Simon Bradshaw last week we are going to have a monthly socila where people can catch up on life and SFP. Very informal and not on a hospital site. Next night out will be Thursday 18th February in or around Stone Staffordshire. All welcome, please let us know if you're coming so that we can book a large enough table.
Recovery and SFP Based on work going back a good few years and invloving CHANGES, Michael Brazendale, James McAteer and a host of others I ran a workshop on Recovery and SFP in Hong Kong in December 2009. I will post the slides or a link to the conference website soon. I'm also working on a brief report on the visit.
Snakes & ladders. Simon Bradshaw and I were chatting before Xmas about different views progress for clients. We discussed the idea that progress isn't linear, set backs happen etc. Common sense and yet not alays obvious in solution focused conversations. We discussed the merits of usring a Snakes & Ladders metaphor. Some progress is faster (ladders & throwing 6's) and some slower (snakes and 1's) and yet we always get to the top of the board in the end. Maybe a bit Forrest Gump but has proved useful in a umberof therapy/supervision conversations.
Several more bits of news which are waiting for conformation and will be with you soon,
All the best and keep in touch,
Steve & team.
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
SFA wikipedia project 31st July 2009
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> Hello folks, here's an update of the wiki project happening between
> 10am and approx 4pm Friday 31st July.
>
> Steve Freeman and I have now arranged a set of online tools and
> processes that allows any number of people to join in the project
> throughout the day, whether that's 5 minutes or 5 hours, all input
> and conversations welcomed.
>
> We plan to use the time throughout the day to accomplish a number of
> things, including developing the wiki page, holding discussions
> around solution focused practice, sharing ideas, building links to
> theory through the internet, maybe even record on video or audio a
> few informal stories for using on the www.ukasfp.com and solutionfocusedapproaches.co.uk
> site.
>
> The process we have developed has been carefully chosen to reduce
> the technical barriers as much as possible.
>
> We will be using a mix of email, mailing list, telephone support,
> skype, a publicly accessible online document to add the content to
> and a little bit of twitter for those who tend to be hanging around
> on there.
>
> The details of how to join the project will be on SOLworld, SFT-L,
> as well as our UKASFP pages on linkedin, facebook, twitter, www.ukasfp.com
> and hopefully some interest group pages.
>
> Please do pop a note in your diary to join us and say hello on the
> day, share a story or two, even a paragraph or reference, possibly a
> review of the content as it develops, it should be a social occasion
> and not just work.
>
> Here are the details to access the online document (no downloads, no
> logins and no special applications required):
>
> http://etherpad.com/bEbKdqt1e2
>
> We will also be checking the mailing list and personal email for
> contacts on the day, also my skype and mobile details are below for
> telephone contact, Steve Freeman will also be adding his mobile to
> the available list.
>
> We look forward to working together!
>
>
> Carl Plant
> 10am and approx 4pm Friday 31st July.
>
> Steve Freeman and I have now arranged a set of online tools and
> processes that allows any number of people to join in the project
> throughout the day, whether that's 5 minutes or 5 hours, all input
> and conversations welcomed.
>
> We plan to use the time throughout the day to accomplish a number of
> things, including developing the wiki page, holding discussions
> around solution focused practice, sharing ideas, building links to
> theory through the internet, maybe even record on video or audio a
> few informal stories for using on the www.ukasfp.com and solutionfocusedapproaches.co.uk
> site.
>
> The process we have developed has been carefully chosen to reduce
> the technical barriers as much as possible.
>
> We will be using a mix of email, mailing list, telephone support,
> skype, a publicly accessible online document to add the content to
> and a little bit of twitter for those who tend to be hanging around
> on there.
>
> The details of how to join the project will be on SOLworld, SFT-L,
> as well as our UKASFP pages on linkedin, facebook, twitter, www.ukasfp.com
> and hopefully some interest group pages.
>
> Please do pop a note in your diary to join us and say hello on the
> day, share a story or two, even a paragraph or reference, possibly a
> review of the content as it develops, it should be a social occasion
> and not just work.
>
> Here are the details to access the online document (no downloads, no
> logins and no special applications required):
>
> http://etherpad.com/bEbKdqt1e2
>
> We will also be checking the mailing list and personal email for
> contacts on the day, also my skype and mobile details are below for
> telephone contact, Steve Freeman will also be adding his mobile to
> the available list.
>
> We look forward to working together!
>
>
> Carl Plant
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