Community Healing
Overnight I’ve been wondering about how yesterday’s post might be received by readers. I wondered if readers might ask, ‘surely they signposted the woman who shared her long history of traum
Who Looks After You?
Yesterday a member of the community chose to share their life story. One filled with trauma and abuse. At the end, the person said to me, ‘who looks after you?’ And it made my heart open and also
Joyful Days
Today at WellGood Social was just absolutely amazing for so many different reasons. Watching the long time ago retired and wise youth worker coach the younger women. Seeing the Councillors join in and
Class
Today we had a lovely session at Make it Mine. Therapeutic time with clay in the company of women. A new to us local councillor came to see us. Sheila, she’s standing this year. I think she’ll be
Rest is Resistance
A week has gone by since I last put pen to paper. I’ve been resting. Learning that rest is resistance, and practising being with the survivor’s guilt that appears whenever I do take a break. H
Parks and people
Well Good Socials today, a new face and a few familiar ones. At one point, there was so much chatter it was really quite loud. After the coffee morning, I caught up with some of our newest community c
Women
Our weekly Make it Mine session this morning, and I ponder the fact that no one may turn up today as we had to cancel last week’s session. Questions around promoting the space better fill my min
Participatory Budgeting and Community Organising
Spent the morning with the Vocal Eyes group making consensual decisions around the participatory budgeting pot. The potential for how we can grow together, as a group, over the longer term is becoming
Feeding and Healing
I’m carrying the January tiredness that can lead to lowness. It’s so cold out there. Today I was truly humbled listening to a local person talk of their experience of hosting community conversatio
A Diverse and busy day in the community
Life is really busy in the community at the moment. Lots going on and it’s only Tuesday! Possibilities hatching all over the place. On Monday we had two great meetings with Wigan Council, one explor