Wednesday 30 May 2012
We Won!
We won the Guardian and Virgin Innovation Nation award! Wow... Really wasn't daring to hope for THAT!
Sunday 20 May 2012
Voting is open - PLEEEEEASE vote!
Get the vote out! The prestigious Guardian Innovation Nation Awards are decided on a combination of judge's points and public vote...
Here is the link to the Guardian InnovationNation Voting page - please use it as soon as possible, and tell your friends!
It would be a great boost to the project to win this.
Monday 14 May 2012
Shortlisted for Guardian Award!
Great news - the AMBIT collaboration (represented by the most active "tiddly-manualers") has just been told that we are shortlisted for the Guardian and Virgin Business Media "Innovation Nation" award under the category for "Collaboration". See the website here.
You can see our introduction to the project at TiddlyManuals.
We have to provide a 100 word "pitch" for the project to go on the Guardian website, which is to canvas for the votes that will ultimately decide the winner...
After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing, this is where we have got to:
Thanks, Dickon.
You can see our introduction to the project at TiddlyManuals.
We have to provide a 100 word "pitch" for the project to go on the Guardian website, which is to canvas for the votes that will ultimately decide the winner...
After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing, this is where we have got to:
AMBIT's innovative open source approach radically improves knowledge sharing across NHS and voluntary sector teams working with highly vulnerable, disadvantaged, disillusioned UK youth. AMBIT offers "how-to-do-it" instructions which each team adapts, refines and improves, based on their local expertise (street level workers, local youth). Any improvements are shared, compared and integrated with other ideas from teams around the country, and existing evidence, constantly improving the effectiveness of the work. Supported by open source programmers, the AMBIT project fosters co-ownership of professional knowledge and multi-stakeholder participation through sharing, remixing and evolving text, diagrams, pictures and video content for professional ‘manuals’.Not that this site sees more than the odd passing seagull, but if you are here, and you fancy supporting us (before May 30th this year!) do slip along to the Guardian website and vote for us!
Thanks, Dickon.
Tuesday 1 May 2012
Netherlands love Mentalizing
Great conference at the end of last week in lovely Haarlem, outside Amsterdam, hosted by the newly launched MBT Netherlands organsation.
The conference was in the most beautiful concert hall venue; two stages, one radically modern, all swirling wood galleries, curving so they gave you the feeling of being inside a whale (but in a nice way.) The other was strict and classical with huge windows that poured in light and framed the medieval market place below - felt very honoured to be there.
AMBIT got a very positive welcome, for which I am most grateful, and the notion of TiddlyManuals seemed to interest people. The day afterwards a group of MBT treatment developers met to think specifically about MBT and Adolescence. What was so encouraging was the strong sense that two parallel processes were occurring.
First, there was increasing clarity and confidence that there is a shared common core of what underpins mentalizing therapies... that is both respectful of other branches of therapeutic endeavour, but also quite distinctive.
Second, there is a rich variety of implementations and variants, that seems entirely in keeping with the fact that Mentalizing is above all an imaginative activity, that must respond contingently to its setting if it is to be "what it says on the tin". So there are settings where MBT is using groups and individual work, and settings where it is using Family and Individual work, and settings where it is using all three. In Geneva (with Martin Debbane and colleagues) it works with youth mandated into treatment by courts, in London (Trudie Rossouw and colleagues) it has been deployed in CAMHS outpatient clinics and a "tier 4" specialist in-patient unit. AMBIT is just another (though even more heavily adapted, and actively adapting) variant in this sense...
What comes out of this (at least in my mind, and others seem interested in ways that may simply reflect their kind and polite manner in keeping with their mentalizing excellence, but I dare to hope is more!) is the goodness of fit with a Tiddlymanuals-type approach to the manualization of such an approach. Tiddlymanuals and their "amoeba-like" capacity to include content from multiple other wikis allow layers of core manual ("what is mentalizing, how it arises, the neuroscience, and how we translate all that into a basic mentalizing stance") along with sort "epi-" or "meta-manualizations" of the kinds of local tweaks, adjustments, responses and delivery systems that fit this to the specifics of a local social ecology... so all roads lead to tiddlyspace, tiddlywiki and the use of co-constructed wiki manuals n'est ce que pas?!
The conference was in the most beautiful concert hall venue; two stages, one radically modern, all swirling wood galleries, curving so they gave you the feeling of being inside a whale (but in a nice way.) The other was strict and classical with huge windows that poured in light and framed the medieval market place below - felt very honoured to be there.
AMBIT got a very positive welcome, for which I am most grateful, and the notion of TiddlyManuals seemed to interest people. The day afterwards a group of MBT treatment developers met to think specifically about MBT and Adolescence. What was so encouraging was the strong sense that two parallel processes were occurring.
First, there was increasing clarity and confidence that there is a shared common core of what underpins mentalizing therapies... that is both respectful of other branches of therapeutic endeavour, but also quite distinctive.
Second, there is a rich variety of implementations and variants, that seems entirely in keeping with the fact that Mentalizing is above all an imaginative activity, that must respond contingently to its setting if it is to be "what it says on the tin". So there are settings where MBT is using groups and individual work, and settings where it is using Family and Individual work, and settings where it is using all three. In Geneva (with Martin Debbane and colleagues) it works with youth mandated into treatment by courts, in London (Trudie Rossouw and colleagues) it has been deployed in CAMHS outpatient clinics and a "tier 4" specialist in-patient unit. AMBIT is just another (though even more heavily adapted, and actively adapting) variant in this sense...
What comes out of this (at least in my mind, and others seem interested in ways that may simply reflect their kind and polite manner in keeping with their mentalizing excellence, but I dare to hope is more!) is the goodness of fit with a Tiddlymanuals-type approach to the manualization of such an approach. Tiddlymanuals and their "amoeba-like" capacity to include content from multiple other wikis allow layers of core manual ("what is mentalizing, how it arises, the neuroscience, and how we translate all that into a basic mentalizing stance") along with sort "epi-" or "meta-manualizations" of the kinds of local tweaks, adjustments, responses and delivery systems that fit this to the specifics of a local social ecology... so all roads lead to tiddlyspace, tiddlywiki and the use of co-constructed wiki manuals n'est ce que pas?!
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