Why changing our vocabulary is so powerful & important for changing the way we think & act. A🧵on 'meeting need', why these words exclude & gaslight; ideas on more human ways to be with other humans #FlipTheNarrative Elly Chapple Founder #FlipTheNarrative©💜, to show we care Bryony Shannon Gloriously Ordinary Lives

A 'care economy' will not emerge unless disabled people's rights are at its heart makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/the…

An opportunity to join our comms team and be part of the movement to change the way we think about and respond to mental health. 👇

Bryony Shannon Lyn Sharon Leaver Rob Mitchell Tim Fisher Becca Dove Shabnam ahmed MBE Kayleigh Rose Evans 🌹 Liz Howard Siobhan Maclean Celine O Connor jeanette penman Amy Hurst Hannah Scaife (she/her) Karen Chance Thanks Bryony. It has already done the rounds a bit, but I'll leave my Open Letter to the Social Worker who Wrote my Case Notes here, which highlights a few of these words (and phrases): new.basw.co.uk/articles/open-….

Powerful stuff from tricianicoll reflecting on how everyone benefits when people are included rather than segregated. ⬇️ #GloriouslyOrdinaryLives

#GloriouslyOrdinarySundaysPodcast
I'm really excited to be talking to Angela Catley and Sian Lockwood about their fabulous new challenge, ⁠ #WhenIGetOld ⁠

Gloriously Ordinary Lives is for everyone and we’re proud to be an ally of #WhenIGetOld

Listen:
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“I can’t even bring myself to get angry with anyone, because they all seem to have meant well, but the process, the system, the protocols, the whatever, take hold and the wrong thing happens even though everyone can see it’s wrong but is powerless to put a stop to it.” ⬇️

Comms people, plse rd Bryony Shannon's latest blog: 'In this approach, care is a relationship – not a task or a transaction, and support is sourced – and resourced – in communities...we focus not on ‘what’s the matter’, but on what matters most to people' rewritingsocialcare.blog/2024/03/30/flo…

So, I've listened to lots of views and perspectives about *that* Alzheimer's Society ad. And FWIW they've made me believe even more deeply that it's huge mistake. I've set out why in this new blogpost 'Life after death' makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com/2024/04/04/lif…

Gloriously ordinary friendships. Love this latest reflection from tricianicoll but it made me sad too. As Paul Richards Stay Up Late says here stayuplate.org/a-manifesto-fo… “we really need to be asking ourselves in social care why it is so difficult for the ordinary to be ordinary.”

whenever there is a blog by Bryony Shannon put everything down and read it . then ACT on it. Just brilliant again. interdependence over independence. Collaboration over the dreadfully overused 'get out' of 'signposting'

At its best, social care is about hope and flourishing. About reconnecting with what matters. 🌱🌸
#RewritingSocialCare
#RewildingSocialCare
#LanguageMatters
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Flourishing - new blog on shifting the purpose of social care from safety net to springboard 🌱
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#LanguageMatters
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The Film

I’m angry now.
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At #socialcarefuture we say social care is both under resourced & under imagined. Bryony & the people & ideas she talks about here are helping hold open the space for us all to imagine better.…Hilary Cottam ✨ Donna Hall ✨

What a beautiful way to think about social care. This is so well written. I urge you to take ten minutes to read it.

'Instead of highlighting what is absent, we notice and build on and invest in what is present.

And instead of assessing and redirecting, we focus on understanding and connecting'

Sharing EVERYWHERE. Changing the narrative.

Fantastic blog again by Bryony Shannon

#SocialCare