Dr Lisa Cherry OBE

Trainer, Speaker & Author disrupting cycles of harm by helping settings, services & systems work consciously with the legacy of trauma. Living with #Myeloma

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@JeanHatchet Very hard viewing...

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This is welcome movement...

#staying close #homelessness #ECLCM

https://t.co/eVSkkQmapX

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@GarethWall Excellent ❤️

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Over the last 50 years, care experienced people have contributed 1000s of hours of time and lived experience wisdom being participants in people's research; for endless students across BA/MA/PHD and researchers at all levels.

This is not often thought of as activism but research leads to policy and legislation which leads to more research. That research, only possible through the participation of care experienced children, young people and adults, has led us to where we are today (not perfect but better). Now THAT is something worth celebrating #NCLM

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@JimGoddard1 It truly is... yet this aspect of social change is rarely articulated.

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@shumelawrites Exactly... changemaker! ❤️

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@nickyjanehill @Maryoshaughne20 Thanks @Maryoshaughne20 I haven't really written about joy (although I should). That said I think joy shows up in Weaving a Web of Belonging. There might be stuff on my substack too @nickyjanehill

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@NinaNchaudhry97 Wouldn't that be just amazing!!

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In 6 hours! Guilty!

Who's next?

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@nickyjanehill 💯... I can't imagine how they're feeling 😥

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@Bonniepurple And shame on one count ... but it's very good all the same. PPT? 🤔

[Dr Lisa Cherry OBE @_LisaCherry]

For fifteen years, children whose way of being clever lived in their voice, their hands, their bodies or their music were essentially told that it did not count. That is what anti-mattering looks like when it is written into policy.
https://t.co/AY5Mdjb8IW

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The history of Rock Against Racism in the 1970’s, was a campaign that connected music, youth culture and anti-racist politics, bringing reggae, punk, ska and other cultural worlds into shared public spaces (Dawson, 2005). That possibility continued through 2 Tone, where ska became more than a musical form, offering a cultural expression of belonging across racial boundaries. People did not have to become the same in order to stand together. Difference could remain visible, audible and valued, while a larger “we” was created around it. This is the politics of belonging in practice; not simply resisting the forces that divide us, but creating spaces, cultures and identities through which we can belong to one another.

https://t.co/QzlnroKn8Z

[Dr Lisa Cherry OBE @_LisaCherry]

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[Sam @SamCKx]

MAGA is dead.

Reform are dying.

Restore are irrelevant.

Robinson, Tate and Brand are off to jail.

This age of the grifter is coming to an end.

Civilisation is rebalancing.

[Dr Lisa Cherry OBE @_LisaCherry]

@bmay It really is!!!!

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Part One of a three-part series on belonging. Today's post is on The Politics of Belonging...
Belonging asks, “Do I feel that I belong here?” whereas the politics of belonging asks, “Who constructed the ‘here’, who gets to belong within it and on what terms?”

READ ON: https://t.co/SeRaKJdq8Y

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

It's a new day in America

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When people connect, believing that they matter and the conditions for belonging are cultivated, not only do beautiful things happen but it is also an act of resistance against the prolonged application of the politics of division that we have endured systematically. In Brighton, during Care Leavers Month, this resistance in action can be seen clearly.
The event has been written about here https://t.co/wd9BBLPN8T and here https://t.co/gzys2nQ8wY and there are still A FEW TICKETS left if you would love to be in this space of love, connection and belonging which you can buy here:

https://t.co/31XHhZl3WO

#brighton #NCLM #leadingtheway #belonging #connection #mattering

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Has the US woken up???

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@deeburf Sounds interesting... I didn't explore that here.

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Something very exciting is happening in education and I want to pull together what I think is the biggest sea change in a generation! In this article, I am going to look at the Enrichment Framework for Schools and Colleges, the Oracy Framework, the development of the National Centre for Arts Education (NCAE) and the announcement in yesterday’s budget that £15 million will be made available for children’s literacy charities, specifically including BookTrust and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

I want to explore what this all means for education because when I put them all together, they are clearly stating that a child’s voice, their creativity, their stories and their experiences matter in education. Finally, it seems, the child has returned to the centre!

#education #belonging #arts #mattering

https://t.co/achhaaWbFS