The Bristol Commons is a movement of people coming together to create change. We aim to nurture community resilience and abundance through grassroots democracy and networks of mutual aid. Our vision is for a world in which everyone effectively and enjoyably meets their own and each other’s needs, regenerating the natural world, and ourselves as part of it, through the collective power of the commons.
See our website for more information: https://thebristolcommons.org/whats-the-bristol-commons/

This event is part two of an event series following our Festival of Commoning, seeking to continue the threads of discussion from the day. They will explore how we can come together as a community to mitigate and address the ongoing crises in Housing, Health + Care, and Music + Arts.


This session is in two parts:
In the morning there will be a session exploring a framework for peer-to-peer support networks, as a practical approach towards re-commoning care within our community. The afternoon will be an 'open space', where you can bring any topic or idea you want to discuss in more depth that fits within the overarching theme of the session. Bring your own lunch or food to share.

~ Part I ~
The WHO definition of 'health' is: "a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity".
The medical health system can treat patients as a 2-dimensional piece of paper. What if we see each other as three dimensional - a 'hologram'?

The Hologram process centres on groups of 4, where one person (the hologram) is the focus for care, whilst three others (triangle) form a team to support them. Each member of the triangle has a specific role of support in relation to physical, mental or social health. This workshop will be trialling the method, but participants are welcome to continue with their groups beyond the session.

~ Part II ~

Open Space is an emergent strategy to invite in multiple perspectives and allow people to shape the session to their particular interests or needs.
Participants are invited to propose a session, workshop or discussion point that fits within the general theme. The group will then break-out into a series of smaller sessions, held by those that proposed them, with space held at the end for each session to feed back into the whole group.

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