scholarly journals How a transformational Collective Benefit Mindset experience prompted parents raising children with disability to launch a peer network

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annick Janson ◽  
Sylvana Mahmic ◽  
Trisha Benge ◽  
Colene Herbert
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
New South ◽  
Signature Strengths ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Children With Disability ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Peer Network ◽  
Collective Benefit ◽  
Family Leadership

<div> <div> <div> <p>Abstract<br></p><p>This research reports how families forged their pathway towards a ‘Benefit Mindset’ self-transformation. This resulted in parents creating a peer network, taking steps to pursue their development and to share their learning about empowerment and flourishing as they work in parallel to create better outcomes for their children with disability. <br></p> <p>Twenty-three participants (11 couples and 1 mother) raising children with disability or developmental delays attended the Now and NextTMprogram, which pioneered the integration of Positive Psychology in the disability sector. This disruptive program was launched in New South Wales in 2015 by two professionals with lived experience and evolved through co-design with the 300 families that have since completed the program (Mahmic & Janson, 2018). <br></p> <p>As participants grew their individual empowerment, hope and collective capacity, their vision to support other families and the collective mindset to make it happen emerged. These families recognised that the missing link in partnerships between professionals and families is their accountability in building their leadership. Participants learnt about identifying their signature strengths and putting them to work to build their family leadership. </p> <p>This research extends the concept of Benefit Mindset proponed by Buchanan and Kern (2017) about individuals to a group space by detailing how their Collective Benefit Mindset emerged. </p> </div> </div> </div>

scholarly journals How a transformational Collective Benefit Mindset experience prompted parents raising children with disability to launch a peer network

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annick Janson ◽  
Sylvana Mahmic ◽  
Trisha Benge ◽  
Colene Herbert
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
New South ◽  
Signature Strengths ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Children With Disability ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Peer Network ◽  
Collective Benefit ◽  
Family Leadership

<div> <div> <div> <p>Abstract<br></p><p>This research reports how families forged their pathway towards a ‘Benefit Mindset’ self-transformation. This resulted in parents creating a peer network, taking steps to pursue their development and to share their learning about empowerment and flourishing as they work in parallel to create better outcomes for their children with disability. <br></p> <p>Twenty-three participants (11 couples and 1 mother) raising children with disability or developmental delays attended the Now and NextTMprogram, which pioneered the integration of Positive Psychology in the disability sector. This disruptive program was launched in New South Wales in 2015 by two professionals with lived experience and evolved through co-design with the 300 families that have since completed the program (Mahmic & Janson, 2018). <br></p> <p>As participants grew their individual empowerment, hope and collective capacity, their vision to support other families and the collective mindset to make it happen emerged. These families recognised that the missing link in partnerships between professionals and families is their accountability in building their leadership. Participants learnt about identifying their signature strengths and putting them to work to build their family leadership. </p> <p>This research extends the concept of Benefit Mindset proponed by Buchanan and Kern (2017) about individuals to a group space by detailing how their Collective Benefit Mindset emerged. </p> </div> </div> </div>

scholarly journals ‘“problem” children of this community’: Christ Church St Laurence and the Children’s Court, Sydney, 1936-41

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-98
Author(s):  
Patricia Curthoys
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
Children's Court ◽  
Children’S Court

This article seeks to explore the experiences of those boys who, in late 1930s/ early 1940s Sydney, were considered, by the courts and the churches, amongst others, to be 'the "problem" children of this community'. The sources for this exploration are the records of the Metropolitan Children's Court, Surry Hills and the Christ Church St Laurence Boys' Welfare Bureau. Children's courts were established in New South Wales in 1905. From 1934 onwards all metropolitan cases were heard at Surry Hills. The Boys' Welfare Bureau was established in April 1936 by Christ Church St Laurence, an Anglican church situated near Central Railway Station, Sydney. The records of the Bureau and the Court provide insights into the ways in which both religion and the law attempted to shape the lived experience of these boys, in inner city Sydney, within the context of current ideas about juvenile delinquency and its treatment.

scholarly journals Refugee filmmaking

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald ◽  
Kaya Davies Hayon ◽  
Lucia Sorbera
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
New South ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Moral Environment ◽  
The Moment

The origins of this issue of Alphaville lie in collaborations between the Forced Migration Research Network (UNSW – University of New South Wales) and the Refugee Council of Australia, and in the inspiration afforded us by international colleagues and guests to Sydney (Fadma Aït Mous), Liverpool (Dennis Del Favero) and Lincoln (Hoda Afshar) universities. We have benefited from these academic alliances and invitations, but we also embrace the widest notion of hospitality, whereby the moment of arrival, the request for assistance and shelter, and subsequent decisions over citizenship and long-term residency are located in a moral environment of welcome and mutual learning. We trace and acknowledge our intellectual relationships here in so far as they have allowed us to articulate an emerging and shared recognition that refugee lived experience stands as the barometer for political civility and social health in our time.

Solastalgia

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn A. Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
World Wide ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact

This chapter defines the author's term solastalgia as the lived experience of negative environmental change. The origins of this concept are explained via an account of the impact of coal mining in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales in Australia. The derivation of solastalgia from nostalgia (homesickness) and other roots is explained. The original research base of solastalgia is described as are the many applications of the concept world-wide over the last fifteen years since its creation. The applications of solastalgia are examined in academic, popular and cultural contexts, including the domain of ecocriticism. The chapter also considers some critical reflections on the concept since its creation.

scholarly journals “We’re Not Being Treated Like Mothers”: Listening to the Stories of First Nations Mothers in Prison

Laws ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Thalia Anthony ◽  
Gemma Sentance ◽  
Larissa Behrendt
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
New South ◽  
Advisory Body ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Women In Prison ◽  
First Nations Women

This article is based on research with over 160 First Nations women in prisons in New South Wales, Australia. The research identified the lived experience of prison sentences for First Nations women in prison. Our research methodology was guided by an Aboriginal women’s advisory body called sista2sista. It was based on the principles of Dadirri in which we listened to the stories of First Nations women in prison on their terms. Consequently, many stories we heard were not about the criminal sentencing process itself, but about the impacts of imprisonment on their capacity to be caregivers in the community, including as mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, teachers and role models. The findings from this research are dual. First, the importance of listening to and empowering First Nations women in prison in policy making that concerns First Nations women. Second, the need to decarcerate First Nations mothers and listen and respond to their needs, expectations, priorities and aspirations, to ensure they are supported in fulfilling their role and responsibility to care, nurture, strengthen and lead their families and communities.

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