UK Mental Health 2.0 2011Communities of Practice Vs The Status Quo

My experience is the

context

2004 - 2005

Grass roots development

Managing mental health services

Messing about with ‘social media’ stuff

Lack of local knowledge & info for mental health

service users

Positioned myself

Community of Practice

A community of practice (CoP) is a group of

people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a

profession. The group can evolve naturally

because of the members' common interest in

a particular domain or area, or it can be

created specifically with the goal of gaining

knowledge related to their field. It is through

the process of sharing information and

experiences with the group that the members

learn from each other, and have an

opportunity to develop themselves personally

and professionally (Lave & Wenger 1991).

UK Health & Social Care

People are talking…

From within:

www.thebigwhitewall.com - localised health care providing

National Resource – log in, sharing stories.

From within (specialist):

www.puzzledout.com - young people influencing

offline world mental health service design online.

The space between:

www.patientopinion.co.uk - Department of Health

funded independent start up.

Initiating feedback and dialogue between service users

& services

On the outside looking in (& out):

www.mindapples.org - An Independent portfolio

funded non profit social enterprise – backers from

public health to retailers

Data, Data, Data:

Quantified Self came out of work by @accarmichael who is

behind www.curetogether.com - this is the taking of data for own

purpose. Mood tracking etc

@carlosrizo runs this meet up local to you.

But this is all service related

isn’t it?

It didn’t start like that.

This is all about Power and Control.

But then, it always is.

ImpartingPeer

conversation

What do service users

want?

High Royds – Leeds

Also known as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum

The risks are also mental

health opportunities

Triage approach to cultural

change

Policy

Research Practice

Who else do you need to be

talking too?

Observing independent models, journalistic

models

Understanding ‘failure’

Getting the principles – and not getting tied to the

platform or Political understanding

Economic drivers

How it relates to what you will be doing – what is

your role? Where do you sit in this picture?

How do you legislate for

sustainability in a fast changing

economic world?

Some useful stuff:

http://mh20.net - TobitEmmens (@tobite) Centre

for innovation & technology for mental health and

wellbeing

Mapping online risks: AnkeGorzig (google)

http://www.wellbeinghq.com/ - EmachiEneje

(@wellbeinghq) The user experience of Internet

Supported Therapeutic Interventions – Towards

an interdisciplinary framework

Thankyou!

Katie Brown – Technical Wellbeing (facebook)

www.theprocessivegenesis@wordpress.com

kate.brown@leedsmind.org.uk

necessarykate@gmail.com

@re_connection (twitter)

@dysconnection (skype)