In this live CPD event, clinical psychotherapist Dr Aaron Balick puts social media under the psychotherapy telescope, to examine its true impact on our internal worlds, relationships and perceptions of our self and others.

This course is for qualified therapists, trainees and mental health professionals whose clients lives are impacted by social media.

About the Speaker

Besides being a UKCP registered pyschotherapist, Dr. Aaron Balick is an acclaimed author and media consultant with a deep interest in contemporary culture.

Details

Sovereign’s new project ‘Your Community Your Choice’ is launching in Bristol, with £40,000 available to spend.  This is community engagement in a way that Sovereign have never done before! If you’re a Bristol resident over the age of 18, you can put forward and vote for project ideas allowing you to decide how this £40,000 is spent to improve your environment in your community.

All projects must:

Academy Online Seminar

Wednesday, 13 January, 2021

Responding to the ever changing world of Cyber Crime

Collective learning and recommendations about online and telephone group activities for older people.

About this Event

Bristol Ageing Better (BAB) and the Bristol Support Hub for Older People present our collective learning about online and telephone group activities.

Bristol Research Forum on Ageing presents the latest research on volunteering and volunteer support for older adults

About this Event

Hear the latest research about volunteering and volunteer support for older adults, followed by a Q&A and discussion.

Speakers:

1. Ailsa Cameron, University of Bristol

The contribution of volunteers in social care for older people - opportunities and challenges for practice

Learning and evaluation findings from the Bristol Ageing Better programme (2015-2020), and implications for the future.

About this Event

Bristol’s neighbourhoods have many resources and people with skills and ideas. Taking an assets-based point of view, Bristol Ageing Better projects have sought to build upon the opportunities existing in communities. Compared to the mainstream service focus on needs and deficits, this is a different way of engaging communities.

Learning and evaluation findings from the Bristol Ageing Better programme (2015-2020), and implications for the future.

About this Event

Bristol Ageing Better projects have all shown a commitment to ‘working with’ – and not ‘doing to’ - older people. This event explores the range of ways in which older people have been involved in decision-making: from commissioning and evaluation to setting up new community activities.

With the help of BAB Community Researchers, we host a debate on whether BAB shows how to do things differently in our post-covid city.

Join Department of Sociology, City, University of London for a public webinar on Racism and COVID-19.

Networking and learning opportunity for Volunteer Organisers, on the topic of recruiting refugees and asylum seekers as volunteers.

The Volunteer Organisers’ Forum are hosting a special online event to support Bristol Refugee Week 2020. You will hear from Caroline Broman, Mentoring Manager at Borderlands, about the work they do and top tips for recruiting refugees and asylum seekers as volunteers. You can also find out more about how Bristol aims to become a City of Sanctuary and they ways in which the two universities are supporting that to happen.

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Dr Maggie Brennan │University of Plymouth

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