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Nurture Development / Posts tagged "Health and Wellbeing"

A Guide to Professionals and Institutions Supporting Communities Through (and beyond) COVID-19

April 16, 2020
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The worrying reality is rapidly dawning on us: we’re in this for the longhaul. This pandemic is not a sprint; it’s a marathon. A...

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Does more medicine make us sicker? Ivan Illich revisited

February 22, 2019
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I'd like to share my article with you: ’Does More Medicine Make Us Sicker? Revisiting Ivan Illich’...

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Ayrshire 3 year evaluation: most important finding is significant increase in mental health and wellbeing.

August 24, 2018
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In 2014, the NHS Endowment Fund provided funding for an Asset Based Community Development project in Ayrshire exploring how peoples’ assets and skills can be...

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Thisness: Coming to our Senses (Part 3 of 3)

July 13, 2018
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"It benefits without pretension, it is content with it’s nature, and therefore can’t be faulted."...

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Thisness: Coming to our Senses (Part 2 of 3)

July 6, 2018
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That life is a terminal condition should focus us, all the more strongly, on building community as a wise course of action in shaping...

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Thisness: Coming to our Senses (Part 1 of 3)

June 29, 2018
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Start with a focus on that which is external, beyond our own senses and our influence is to inadvertently render that which is proximate...

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What’s the Story? Post-Truth Politics and Vaccinations

November 3, 2017
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" People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."  - Maya...

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All that divides us

Part 3: The Importance of Asking

August 25, 2017
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Before you engage with communities you must be prepared to invest in supporting local residents in building them, not so you can harvest/harness their...

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Change in care?

Part 2: Social Prescription or Medical Proscription?

August 18, 2017
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Supporting people to create pathways towards a good life is not about prescriptions or referrals, it is about walking alongside people in their life’s...

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Social Prescribing: panacea or medicalization?

Social Prescribing, a panacea or another top-down programme? Part 1

August 11, 2017
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(this is part 1 of 4 in a blog series) Over the next four blogs I wish to critically explore an approach to patient support...

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Community board request and offer

A Question for Community Wellbeing

July 21, 2017
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"I believe it is time to state clearly that specific situations and circumstances are "sickening," rather than that people themselves are sick. The symptoms...

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Communities and the State: a question of proportionality

October 13, 2016
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  First, let me say thanks to everyone who took time to participate in the conversation around last week’s blog. Building on that conversation, I’d...

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