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General Links

Europe Matters  We are a partner organisation with this creative CFOR project, the idea behind Europe Matters is that among those of us living in Europe - there’s a great need for a deeper dialogue, to interact with awareness about our present issues.

Altrum is a networked consortium, of which we are also members, that aims to foster services that work for inclusion and citizenship for all.

Worldwork is a method and theoretical framework for working with major social and world issues and conflicts - large international gatherings and seminars are held at different locations around the world every two years

Asta Faciliation was founded by Anup Karia and Stanya Studentova to work with individuals, teams, organizations and communities around change, conflict resolution, leadership, team building, diversity consciousness, multicultural communication skills and attitudes.

CFOR– or Community Force for Change is a site that describes process work and its use for conflict work and community building 

Max Schupbach has a rich site with information on Worldwork and also on his facilitation wth business organisations and organisational development

RSPOPUK or The Research Society for Process Oriented Psychology has information about process work in the UK and extensive links to worldwide sites 

www.inclusion.com is Jack Pearpoint and colleagues long lived, rich and much to interest site on person-centred planning and inclusion

Elpnet is the original site to learn about Essential Lifestyle Planning and is where to find out about the work of Michael Smull.

Michael kendrick is a philosopher and extensive thinker on the good in people and how services can be improved. His site has many of his writings for download.

www.in-control.org.uk In-control finds better ways to organise so that people can more directly control their own support arrangements directly

John and Connie Lyle O'Brien have contributed internationally to some of the most innovative practice in social care. Their publications on line at http://thechp.syr.edu/rsapub.htm

Deep democracy movement is a site that explores multi-level perspectives on Worldwork and Deep Democracy

While the Deep Democracy Institute is a thinktank working throughout the world, developing ideas and learning through leadership training and seminars.

New Possibilities supports individuals and organisations formal and informal, big and small to embrace change and use it as an opportunity to create better outcomes for themselves and for others.


Links to Altrum Organisations

Diversity Matters Ltd. is a member of Altrum a federation fostering more inclusive services- here are the sites of some of the other members.

Inclusion Glasgow is the first of it's kind - a new type of supported living organisation. Like Partners for Inclusion and C-Change for Inclusion (both linked to below) they support people to have ordinary, inclusive and real lives with a particular interest in working with people from institutionalised settings, with young people leaving special schools and with people whose previous service has not worked for them.

C-Change for Inclusion  was developed from Inclusion Glasgow it provides individually designed, creative person centred robust services for adults and young people with learning difficulties and mental health issues

Partners for Inclusion also developed from Inclusion Glasgow and works across the Ayrshire and Renfrewshire areas and was designed to provide high quality supports to individuals with a learning and/or mental health difficulty

Support for Ordinary Living or SOL has been developing supported living and supported employment services for people with learning disability, and now supports more than 50 people throughout Lanarkshire.

Neighbourhood Networks provides support networks based on the KeyRing model to people in Scotland. Eleven networks have been established across Glasgow, Argyll and North Lanarkshire to date and more networks are being planned in different parts of Scotland.

ELCAP works in the Lothians and
believes that people should have the support they need, delivered in the way they want, to live their chosen lives. We work in partnership with people and their families, to help them to identify and plan for the kind of life they want to live, and then to support them to achieve this.

The Thistle Foundation provides individually tailored services that are designed to support disabled people and those with long term health conditions to lead full and active lives.

Inspiring Inclusion
inspires, supports and challenges to make it more likely that the people we care about and support will live rich and full lives and have their contribution welcomed and valued. They do this by providing events, training and consultancy for organisations, communities and individuals.


Links to Process Work sites

RSPOPUK has information about process work in the UK and extensive links to worldwide sites http://www.rspopuk.com/

IAPOP is the short name for the International Association for Process Oriented Psychology

Asta Faciliation was founded by Anup Karia and Stanya Studentova to work with individuals, teams, organizations and communities around change, conflict resolution, leadership, team building, diversity consciousness, multicultural communication skills and attitudes.

Julie Diamond is an internationally renowned process work teacher. Her site has resources and information for personal and professional development. She is a facilitator, trainer, coach and consultant working helping individuals, teams and organizations develop leadership, embrace change, and transform conflict

Arlene and Jean Claude Audergon facilitate and teach seminars internationally, individually as well as together. They consult in organisations as well as work with individual clients and supervise students. They have also worked with theatre companies, and many performers, musicians and other artists in London, LA and Berlin, teaching, coaching, devising and directing.


Music and Other links

Improbable Theatre Company live up to their name. They are Improbable and are a world renowned performance company, their works have been influenced or use process work methods and include: Sticky, Spirit, Animo, The Hanging Man and Life Game.

1 Giant Leap  have been a great inspiration to us - a deeply interesting way to explore diversity through music



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