IN CONCLUSION: NO END POINT
When we started putting together the DISRUPT Toolkit, we entered the process with far more questions than answers. One of the big ones was: what will people do after reading this? It’s a huge question and the truth is, we’re not really sure. We’re not really sure because, well, no one had read it. Until now.
So that question, that huge question, sits with you now: what happens next? Where do you go from here?
We can’t answer that for you, but we can tell you what our hopes are:
We hope that you use this toolkit to think about how to shake things up.
We hope you use it to be brave and bold enough to challenge structures that already exist and firm enough to stand your ground when things get tough.
We hope you can use this toolkit to think about how you share power, and meet the communities you serve as equals.
We hope you know that you’ll get things wrong (more than once), but that failure makes room for growth.
Start questioning and challenging. Think about your power, think about changing how you do things. Ask communities what they want; how they’d like to be involved. Give them influence; give them power.
We hope that you know that things can change if we all accept there is no end point, only evolution.
No experts, only learners.
We can’t wait to see what you make next.
thanks
This toolkit couldn’t have been created without the contributions of many individuals and communities.
The Barbican would like to thank:
Bablu Miah
Harshita Patel
Madhumita Bose
Marissa Mireles Hinds
Sebastian O’Driscoll
Shannon Ghannam
Victoria Davenport Smith
Headway East would like to thank:
Laura Owens
Jess Hodge
Jasmine White
Rachel Smith
Bryn Davies
Headway East London’s generous community of brain injury survivors, carers and volunteers, including: Lina, Natasha, Sean, Barrie and Dave
Our Steering Group members
Everyone who contributed to Matter Magazine and the DISRUPT Podcasts.
Jumped Up would like to thank:
Jade Campbell & Mair George
Jumped Up Sounding Board: Emily Steele and Chardonnay Watts, Diego Soto Cardenas , Eva Wood, Matas Baranauskas, Faith Falayi, Keelan James
Slung Low would like to thank:
David Jubb
Simon Mellor
Darren Henley
Amy Vaughan
Maia Mackney and Valentina Orru would like to thank:
Dr Sophie Hope
Henry Mulhall
Chris Rolls
Sarah Cassidy
The Royal Exchange would like to thank:
All of our Elders Company Graduates, Leaders and Members and to our funders The Rayne Foundation and Beaverbrooks.
Guildhall School of Music & Drama would like to thank:
James Drury
Sian Brittain
Steph Lipscomb
Aurora Lewis-Green
Airelle Depreux
The co-creation of this toolkit was facilitated by Jo Chard, Iona McTaggart, Georgie Gwynne, Prince Taylor and Chloe Osborne.
Special thanks goes to our brilliant illustrator Matt Munday (c) who helped visualise this toolkit, and Rae Goddard (c) for designing the activity pages in the ‘Shifting power’ chapter.