{"id":75,"date":"2011-07-28T15:26:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T15:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/assetmapping\/?p=75"},"modified":"2011-09-05T11:21:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T11:21:25","slug":"workshop-2-25th-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/assetmapping\/2011\/07\/28\/workshop-2-25th-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop 2: 25th July"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our second workshop took place on the 25th July – \u00a0a bright and sunny Monday – in Kirkintilloch Health and Care Centre.<\/p>\n

It was great to see so many people at the workshop – some familiar faces, and lots of new ones too. In the end, we had 22 people coming along to share their experiences and ideas (this was a split of 13 people who use services and 10 people who support those who use services) which was a fabulous turnout – even if it was a bit of a tight squeeze!<\/p>\n

What we did<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week, we worked on tasks that encouraged people to share their experiences and that enabled us to gather ideas about how people could be better supported to use community supports and assets.<\/p>\n

We started by getting to know each other. There were lots of new faces in the group and it was good to find out a bit about where everyone was from and what their interests were.<\/p>\n

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We then split into two groups and worked on answering the question: ‘if someone new to the area was to ask you advice for keeping well, what 5 things would you tell them?’<\/p>\n

One group looked at this in quite a general way and were able to give lots of practical advice that included:<\/p>\n