Category: Bios

I love the fact that Boingboing is all about resilience. To volunteer with and now work for an organisation that embeds and creates resilience practices as part of its core is fantastic and an amazing opportunity.

I am interested in resilience as concept as I always felt that this was a way to help children and their families that held more promise than more deficit-based approaches.

I became involved with Boingboing through Experience in Mind (an organisation that delivered training and produced resources to raise awareness of mental health issues in young people).

I am specifically interesting in adapting the Resilience framework and some of its practices for use with adults. I have also really valued and used the collaborative approach Boingboing promotes.

I was keen to be a non-executive director since it will give me a better insight into how universities can play a role in working in mutually beneficial ways with this type of organisation, and the social enterprise sector in general, to promote social justice.