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Tools | Collecting our best poems together, sharing, enjoying and discussing them, is part of the work of building a person-centred culture.
"Everywhere I go, I find that a poet has been there before me"
Sigmund Freud |
"We speak, and the word goes beyond us, to consequences and ends which we had not conceived of"
Gadamer |
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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"
Anais Nin |
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history"
Plato |
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Sometimes we can say much more with a poem than we can with a collection of 'facts'.
This page is for your poetry, this can be about virtually anything to do with Person Centred Planning, and the work of enabling each other to live better lives on our own terms.
We're proud to open this page with a poem by Lancashire poet Tom Hicks about the mixed feelings a parent experiences when seeing their child setting out into the wider world and finding a new path forward:
'Moving On'
next here's a wonderful poem by Tom Hicks dedicated to Carers everywhere:
'The Carer'
Donna wrote this great poem about a bad PCP.
Lets make sure we do our planning with people properly, in a way that makes sense for them, so that nobody else has to feel like this:
'A Bad PCP'
Mark Jones is an electrical pylon contractor from Blackrod. He hand writes beautiful books of poetry, in silver ink on black paper, that he gives away free to people that he meets. He's given away 1500 so far. Here's just one of his great poems:
What's It All About?
Liz Wilson wrote this poem to describe how it feels to be a parent of a child with disabilities. She says there are more poems like it on the 'Parents for Inclusion' website
Don't Mess With My Holiday Plans!
This is a classic story about segregation, and how the world might be different, if people with disabilities were in charge, written by Vic Finkelstein, and published in the 'New Internationalist' back in 1992:
'Revolution'
Nabil Shaban is a playwright, filmaker and actor. Here he talks about his current play "The First To Go" dramatising the Nazi Holocaust of People with Disabilities, and about the struggle to make sure people with disabilities are represented in the media:
Nabil Shaban (Disability Now)
A collection of Haiku by 'Anteus', a Preston poet, inspired by the tagline of 'Valuing People Now':
'From Progress to Transformation'
Here's a 700 year old poem by Persian poet Al Hafiz, that John O'Brien recited to people learning about person centred planning when he visited Chorley in 2007:
'Why Ask The Donkey?'
Here's a great poem by William Arthur Ward on Risk that we use in our training around 'Person Centred Approaches to Risk'
(You can read more about person centred risk on our coaches' page)
'To Risk'
A group of people in Cheshire got together to write poems about themselves, and each other with their local poet laureate, John Lindley.
The poems are about what they like and admire about each other, and their hopes and dreams.
They spotted our poetry page and have kindly allowed us to display their work here:
Cheshire 'Listen To Me' Poems
Sometimes a poem becomes a song lyric, here's a plea for listening sung by Michael Steinbruck of the learning community for person centred practices:
What I'd Say
Michael also wrote this poem challenging us all to:
Change It Anyway
Stories are a powerful way of influencing the culture of organisations, of changing the way people think and changing what they do.
We have just started a page for stories about person centred thinking:
Read our stories about Person Centred Thinking here.
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