Round the Block
I write a reflection on 2022 for the Reimagining Social Work Collective, a mishmash, sentimental attempt to make meaning of a complex year. To get started, and to get out of my own navel-gazing brain, I think about how I may have been inspired this year, what I fed into my mind – what books or […]
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In the middle of 2021, sixty Canadian books arrived at my house in Aotearoa. It was my sister’s loving and creative way of recognizing a certain birthday that because of distance we couldn’t celebrate together. Later I learned she had shopped in second hand bookstores over a period of months and gradually mailed a series […]
Read MoreAlongside all my registered social work colleagues I report to the Social Workers Registration Board an annual account of my professional development activities. Every time I do this I ask myself what it means, how I might log my learning into small boxes provided on the website. A practitioner and I reflected at the end […]
Read MoreOn 26th March 2020 with the rest of New Zealand we began a 4-week ‘lock-down,’ or rāhui, to manage the spread of the the virus Covid-19. Our front gate is closed and has been opened twice to go out for groceries.These past two weeks have been difficult, fascinating, curious, sad. We’re lucky to have a […]
Read MoreThorpe Stand is nice little private, quiet space for podcasting, and in late 2019 Raewyn Nordstrom accepted my invitation to spend time with me in this tiny room to record her memories of the Family Group Conference. She was the first person in the world to undertake facilitation of the FGC, and retired in 2019 […]
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Thorpe Stand is a reconstructed Waikato milking shed designed and built by Brian Ricketts (One Cow Block), funded in part by an inheritance from a distant maternal cousin Mr Peter Thorpe who died in June 2016, and whose estate was divided between his living relations and close friends.
Read MoreThis post acts as a placeholder for the new tiny house under development at One Cow Block. A few more minor touch-ups and it will be ready for its first photo. Watch this space …..
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Deb Stanfield 