From MANIFESTO to MOVEMENT - for relational practice

If you have been reading this blog before, you will know what this is all all about. As a picture is worth (at least) a thousand words (especially nowadays) - so I'm not going to write much.

After about five years of gestation, the embryonic relational practice movement got its act together and launched the manifesto.

We did it at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, hosted by the closely related 'Enabling Environments' project. Under what felt like a wary and watchful eye - to ensure we did not transgress any college policies or guidlines. Such is the nature of modern charitable organisations' burden of managerialist and corporate requirements.

The gathered masses (full house of 180 expected, but only about 100 there, with train strike threats)

Nick Benefield explains what it is all about

John Alderdice (and then Clare Gerada) give the political angle

The audience are rapt!

Russell Razzaque explains the relation to 'compassionate and relational psychiatry'

David Robinson joins us to their own work and aspirations

A community meeting to set everybody off to action

And then there was the launch of the actual manifesto itself (link - www.relationalmovement.net ) for which we enjoyed a glass of wine or two. It looks like tyhjere are plenty of people - from all sorts of different places - who already understand what this is all about, and want to take it forward.

IF YOU WANT TO BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT -

GO TO THIS WEBSITE AND FILL IN THE VERY SIMPLE FORM. 

You will not be bombarded with unwanted emails!