A team from Boingboingers went to the Pathways to Resilience Conference in South Africa. Mirika reports from the second day, including current resilience research from across the world.
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When Naz was asked to attend and speak at the Pathways to Resilience conference in Cape Town, South Africa, she was really excited at the awesome opportunity and jumped at the chance.
Peer Support offers opportunities for those with ‘lived experience’ to provide services to those facing similar mental health challenges. Recent research suggests that peer support may increase resiliency and improve health outcomes.
How can you best support mental health and emotional wellbeing at school? – by young people from the mental health participation group, Download; the East Sussex Youth Cabinet, and with help from Lisa Buttery at boingboing This short guide includes tips for teachers and school staff schools as recommended by young people. It includes ideas … Read more
Phew, where did that time go? Boingboing and HeadStart really hit the ground running with this programme of work together and quickly developed into a rhythm of co-working. We’re excited about training and supporting more people in Blackpool.
In social learning theory, learning is viewed, not merely as the acquisition of information and skills, but primarily as our changing ability to participate in the world: participation is not merely a context for learning, it is its core constituent.
Selogadi Mampane travelled all the way from Pretoria to give the Resilience Forum a live preview of her arts activist approach for young people, which is being used as part of the Patterns of Resilience to Drought project taking place in South Africa.
This co-produced blog was based on the reflections of University of Pretoria and Boingboing co-researchers who met with young people from Leandra, a small township in South Africa, to explore community resilience to drought.
Lisa, Angie and Scott attended research events as part of our Patterns of Resilience to Drought project. Lisa reports from the Global Challenges Research Fund & Collaborative Research event, and the Arts & Humanities Research Council summit.
This theatre workshop focussed on “the self as a starting point” using mapping to explore, communicate, share and make sense of personal narratives in relation to wider issues of human security, such as drought.
