Ok I think I’ve missed the boat with wishing you all a happy u.year but things I wanted to share with you have only just aligned. And in the spirit of working out loud, other things are still at the idea stage. All of the below is open for you to get involved in though. A group […]
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Valerie Jackman is a lecturer at Edinburgh College. In this film, Valerie talks of how she moved from feeling “stuck at the bottom of the U” to taking action on her idea. Many people we talk to also experience being stuck at the bottom of the U. It’s perhaps understandable when many of us don’t […]
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Eleanor Ogilvie is a Programme Manager with See Me (https://www.seemescotland.org/), Scotland’s programme to tackle mental health stigma and discrimination. When I spoke to her about her motivation for taking part in u.lab she spoke of looking for something that would help her with big system change around ending mental health stigma for people with mental […]
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In the final of the series of four blog posts around the co-sensing element within u.lab Kuladharini, the Chief Executive of the Scottish Recovery Consortium, talks about using u.lab tools to have a “Deadly Serious Conversation” around tackling the issue of death from substance misuse. When I spoke to her she noted that this […]
Read moreYesterday, over 80 people came together to prepare for u.lab starting next week at the aptly named “Hub” in Edinburgh. It was great to see some familiar faces from last year, and even more new ones of people taking part for the first time. The ulabscot holding team hosted an experiential day, based around the […]
Read moreSome people get super excited by a map, others not so much. I’ve discovered I like playing around with them and so have pinned all thirteen of the taster sessions currently being offered by our amazing ulabscot community so you can quickly see if one is near you – just click the map below to […]
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