In this fourm Debbie will be talking about her PhD findings which looked at patient and public engagement and involvement for commissioning health services (pre-pandemic) and asking what this might mean for working better together in the post Covid era.

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In this Forum Marco Ius, assistant professor in Education at the University of Padua, will be discussing holistic intervention for children living in vulnerable contexts and facing adversity. Creative and playful techniques will be used to enable participants to think and collaborate visually and work remotely in the same creative space.

This forum explores findings from “Arriving at Thriving: Learning from Disabled students to ensure access for all”, a report by Policy Connect and the Higher Education Commission (October, 2020). This report arose from a public inquiry into the experiences of disabled students in higher education (i.e. college, university, etc.).

In this Resilience Forum Grazielli Fernandes, a PhD student in Education at La Salle University, introduces a Bullying Intervention based on Positive Psychology was developed in in a public school setting in Brazil.

In this Forum Michelle Jewsbury, CEO of Unsilenced Voices, a non-profit organisation focused on eradicating domestic abuse and sexual gender-based violence, will be discussing the experiences of disadvantaged women in countries with low average incomes and how they have to be resilient to overcome their difficulties.

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In this Resilience Forum Dr Büşra Yalcinoz-Ucan will introduce her PhD research on surviving male partner violence in Turkey: Women’s stories of powerlessness, empowerment & recovery.

In this forum Anne Rathbone will explore some of the literature on Mattering, Belonging and Making a Difference through the lens of co-production and social action, and how all of these link to resilience.

This session with Blackpool’s Young Leaders is about youth engagement and their pathway to the 2022 International Resilience Revolution Conference.

Topic  Why focus on resilient communities and what does the lockdown tell us? – Diana Rose Session Summary  I offered this session as a survivor of mental health services, a sometime academic and an activist. My histories or standpoints are important. Young working class girls like me in the 1950s and 1960s were taught that what … Read more

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This session is about resilient communities; communities where those who struggle are not ostracised but understood, indeed where fewer people struggle. Why is the collective so much more than the individuals who make it up?

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