I’m sure she said she knitted the mental elves too? I loved my girl elf. She sat above my bed. She is now in elf heaven although I like to think she flew out of the window and over the rainbow 🌈 on a pink unicorn 🦄 before the pumes of black smoke reached my room!

I’ve never ever ever been able to win one of these crochet elves! 🧝🏼‍♀️ One year I came close but @keirwales.bsky.social beat me. @helenjolly.bsky.social (I hope this is the right Helen Jolly!) took pity on me & knitted me the most gorjuss little girl elf 🧝🏼‍♀️ Sadly she went up in smoke in my house fire… 😢

I was sad to miss this talk. It’s one close to my heart as I’m coming to terms with being something ‘atypical’ that feels alien to be labelled as autistic. I had another to go to but knowing Jennie & anyone she collaborated with it would have been a very good talk #BIGSPD25

Loved the #RelationalCare workshop. Thank you 🙏🏽 Vicky Baldwin & Julia Blazdell #BIGSPD25

Now we are making a #RelationalLearning cake! 🍰 #BIGSPD25

There isn’t a definitive model that is attributable to #RelationalCare. A scoping review of 158 articles of basically said: we dunno exactly what it is, but it’s a good thing! #BIGSPD25

Just finished an activity on the relational vs non-relational care, with
‘Tableau’s’ as the discussion piece for each group. Better than flip charts! #BIGSPD25

Delegates have managed to find the maze that leads to the Derby room for the #RelationalPractice workshop with Vicky Baldwin & Julia Blazdell #BIGSPD25

Oh wowowowowowwwwww!!!!!!! The slides & more importantly PAPERS all in this thread…. Esp the ‘Bullshitisation’ one 😹😢 #BIGDPD25

Ooooh I’m name checked on here… (other #BIGSPD25 people on the BlueSky app are also available to follow )

A video from a 1979 article in the #NursingMirror. A nurse wrote an example of ‘Ann’, moving from an angry but subservient person to a person whose relationships moved to a more healthy one. It’s always moving to hear when someone feels happier in life, vs many ppl’s lifetime of pain #BIGSPD25

Ooh! Activity! #BIGSPD25

Lots of interesting questions after watching the video about the @casselhosptrust.bsky.social’s #TherapeuticCommunity model. I asked about ethnic diversity and how the model works with ppl & racism. Answer: few referrals, so gaps in model for ppl ethnically marginalised. #BIGSPD25

I’ve always wondered about the #therapeuticcommunity at the @casselhosptrust.bsky.social. It’s good hearing a few insights about it on excerpts from their Centenary film ‘Hospital in the Mind’ #BIGSPD25

Oooh. What will be doing with the crayon and the post it note?! 😜 #BIGSPD25

I’m in the #TroubleStirring #RelationalPractice workshop. I wonder why I was attracted to this one?! 😹🤣 #BIGSPD25

Wahahaheeeeeyyyy!!!!!!!!! Some #DeedsNotWords merch from #BIGSPD25

Zulu greeting:
“Sobowuna” I see you, you are important to me & I value you

In application to ways of working well in #AntiRacist practice:

Seeing
Window of tolerance,
Unity (wake, woke, c sharpe)
Boundary
Openness
Negotiation
Articulate ways forwards

#BIGSPD25

I felt hurt in my stomach hearing about how groups
psychological violent to the lowest common denominator to the point that the group don’t even recognise it. It’s the group theory that is too close to home #BIGSPD25

Reference to the title ‘containing the container’. The container = the therapist. How are they contained - held, supervised, continuous CPD, ensuring psychological violence is not enacting on service users #BIGSPD25

Next up: Maxine Dennis. I love her already. #TheGlobalMajority is the term she uses vs ‘ethnic minority’. The difference between how Global Majority ppl enter services (higher involuntary) and seen as older, treated harsher than others #BIGSPD25

Btw, I’m new to @bsky.app, so anyone at #BIGSPD25, please follow me and I’ll follow you back so I can find ‘my people’. I am mourning the death 💀 of #Twitter #X & #ElonMusk = 🤮🤮🤮

Really excellent talk from @mickmckeown24.bsky.social. I’ve loved it. Thank you 🙏🏽 🥰 #BIGSPD25

Another sweary slide. You go @mickmckeown24.bsky.social 😹😹😹

Peter Sedgwick is also his hero, 🦸‍♂️, I shall be looking him up later 😉

#BIGSPD25

There are some great papers being referenced in this talk. One uses the word Bullshitisation in its title. What an absolutely incredible word. I need a reading list.

Btw: #Goals: to write a paper with a sweary title. Hell, a book too…

#BIGSPD25

Can we discuss even when we are angry and need to shout at each other a bit?
#MadPeople have historically been told they are too irrational to be able to even have discussions. So after constant #gaslighting, how are we supposed to have discussions knowing the legacy of this still exists? #BIGSPD25

‘War is Peace’
‘Freedom is Slavery’
‘Knowledge is Ignorance’

If there is a voice that is not served in the mainstream, it will always pop up as a group elsewhere

#BIGSPD25

The first plenary session is @mickmckeown24.bsky.social who is Professor for Democratic Mental Health at @uclan.ac.uk I’ve worked with him on bits of work for @unison.org.uk trying to raise awareness of #Peer #LivedExperience workers. Sorry if I tagged the wrong Mick McKeown 😹 #BIGSPD25

#BlueSkyNewbie hey there, I’m new to @bsky.app, I’m a & Mad Activist Warrior, one of the @Bigspd (British & Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder) exec and today I’m going to tweeting on #BIGSPD25 annual conference…