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- People in Disasters Conference - Leading and Coordinating Social Recovery: Lessons from a central recovery agency
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A video of a presentation by Dr Sarah Beaven during the Social Recovery Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Leading and Coordinating Social Recovery: Lessons from a central recovery agency".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
This presentation provides an overview of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority's Social Recovery Lessons and Legacy project. This project was commissioned in 2014 and completed in December 2015. It had three main aims: to capture Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority's role in social recovery after the Canterbury earthquakes, to identify lessons learned, and to disseminate these lessons to future recovery practitioners. The project scope spanned four Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority work programmes: The Residential Red Zone, the Social and Cultural Outcomes, the Housing Programme, and the Community Resilience Programme. Participants included both Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority employees, people from within a range of regional and national agencies, and community and public sector organisations who worked with Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority over time. The presentation will outline the origin and design of the project, and present some key findings.
- Creator(s)
- Sarah Beaven,
- Date
- 11:08pm 25th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, Dr Sarah Beaven, Lesley Petterson, Social Recovery, CERA, lessons, Recovery Stream, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Resilience, Poverty, and Seismic Culture
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A video of a presentation by Richard Conlin during the Community Resilience Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Resilience, Poverty, and Seismic Culture".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
A strategy of resilience is built around the recognition that effective emergency response requires community involvement and mobilization. It further recognizes that many of the characteristics that equip communities to respond most effectively to short term emergencies are also characteristics that build strong communities over the long term. Building resilient communities means integrating our approaches to poverty, community engagement, economic development, and housing into a coherent strategy that empowers community members to engage with each other and with other communities. In this way, resilience becomes a complementary concept to sustainability. This requires an asset-based change strategy where external agencies meet communities where they are, in their own space, and use collective impact approaches to work in partnership. This also requires understanding and assessing poverty, including physical, financial, and social capital in their myriad manifestations. Poverty is not exclusively a matter of class. It is a complex subject, and different communities manifest multiple versions of poverty, which must be respected and understood through the asset-based lens. Resilience is a quality of a community and a system, and develops over time as a result of careful analysis of strengths and vulnerabilities and taking actions to increase competencies and reduce risk situations. Resilience requires maintenance and must be developed in a way that includes practicing continuous improvement and adaptation. The characteristics of a resilient community include both physical qualities and 'soft infrastructure', such as community knowledge, resourcefulness, and overall health. This presentation reviews the experience of some earlier disasters, outlines a working model of how emergency response, resilience, and poverty interact and can be addressed in concert, and concludes with a summary of what the 2010 Chilean earthquake tells us about how a 'seismic culture' can function effectively in communities even when government suffers from unexpected shortcomings.
- Creator(s)
- Richard Conlin,
- Date
- 1:27am 27th February 2016
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- People in Disasters, conference, Richard Conlin, resilience, poverty, community, Seattle, Chile, Community Resilience Stream, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Panel One
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A video of the panel during the first plenary discussion at the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The panel is made up of keynote speaker Sir John Holmes and guests David Meates and Arihia Bennett.
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- Arihia Bennett, David Meates, Sir John Holmes,
- Date
- 12:15am 25th February 2016
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- People in Disasters, conference, Sir John Holmes, Arihia Bennett, David Meates, plenary, panel discussion, Health and Wellbeing
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- All Right? Campaigns and Projects: Five Ways to Wellbeing Video - Give
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- A video of Si and Gary (Simon Barnett and Gary McCormick) from MORE FM promoting the Five Ways to Wellbeing. In this video they talk about the importance of giving, and suggest ways to give. The closing frames read, "When did you last share a little love? The simple things we do often mean the most. For more tips on what makes us feel good, visit allright.org.nz."
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- mental health, wellbeing, All Right?, Five Ways to Wellbeing, phase 2, Si and Gary, Simon Barnett, Gary McCormick, MORE FM, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Panel Three
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A video of the panel discussion during the third plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The panel is made up of keynote speaker Alexander C. McFarlane and guests Ian Campbell and Duncan Webb.
- Creator(s)
- Alexander C. McFarlane, Duncan Webb, Ian Campbell,
- Date
- 10:30pm 25th February 2016
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- People in Disasters, conference, plenary, panel discussion, Professor Alexander C. McFarlane, Dr Duncan Webb, Ian Campbell, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - The Mental Health Impacts of the Canterbury Earthquakes in the Christchurch Health and Development Study Birth Cohort: A 'natural experiment'.
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A video of a keynote presentation by Professor Jonathan Davidson during the fifth plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Resilience in People".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
Resilience is the ability to bounce back or adapt successfully in the face of change, and is present to varying degrees in everybody. For at least 50 years resilience has been a topic of study in medical research, with a marked increase occurring in the past decade. In this presentation the essential features of resilience will be defined. Among the determining or mediating factors are neurobiological pathways, genetic characteristics, temperament, and environment events, all of which will be summarized. Adversity, assets, and adjustment need to be taken into account when assessing resilience. Different approaches to measuring the construct include self-rating scales which evaluate: traits and copying, responses to stress, symptom ratings after exposure to actual adversity, behavioural measures in response to a stress, e.g. Trier Test, and biological measures in response to stress. Examples will be provided. Resilience can be a determinant of health outcome, e.g. for coronary heart disease, acute coronary syndrome, diabetes, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positive status and successful aging. Total score and individual item levels of resilience predict response to dug and psychotherapy in post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. Studies have repeatedly demonstrated that resilience is modifiable. Different treatments and interventions can increase resilience in a matter of weeks, and with an effect size larger than the effect size found for the same treatments on symptoms of illness. There are many ways to enhance resilience, ranging from 'Outward Bound' to mindfulness-based meditation/stress reduction to wellbeing therapy and antidepressant drugs. Treatments that reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety recruit resiliency processes at the same time. Examples will be given.
- Creator(s)
- Jonathan Davidson,
- Date
- 4:49am 26th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, Professor Jonathan Davidson, change, resilience, response, stress, plenary, keynote, Health and Wellbeing
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- All Right? Social Media: Video 1
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- A video created in celebration of New Zealand Sign Language Week. The video was part of a series that taught simple sentences in Sign Language and invited people to win a prize by guessing the words being signed. The videos were posted by All Right? to their YouTube account on 15 May 2014.
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- mental health, wellbeing, All Right, New Zealand Sign Language Week, video, sign language, competition, Facebook, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - A Qualitative Study of Paramedic Duty to Treat During Disaster Response
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A video of a presentation by Dr Erin Smith during the Community Resilience Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "A Qualitative Study of Paramedic Duty to Treat During Disaster Response".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
Disasters place unprecedented demands on emergency medical services and test paramedic personal commitment to the health care profession. Despite this challenge, legal guidelines, professional codes of ethics and ambulance service management guidelines are largely silent on the issue of professional obligations during disasters. They provide little to no guidance on what is expected of paramedics or how they ought to approach their duty to treat in the face of risk. This research explores how paramedics view their duty to treat during disasters. Reasons that may limit or override such a duty are examined. Understanding these issues is important in enabling paramedics to make informed and defensible decisions during disasters. The authors employed qualitative methods to gather Australian paramedic perspectives. Participants' views were analysed and organised according to three emerging themes: the scope of individual paramedic obligations, the role and obligations of ambulance services, and the broader ethical context. Our findings suggest that paramedic decisions around duty to treat will largely depend on their individual perception of risk and competing obligations. A reciprocal obligation is expected of paramedic employers. Ambulance services need to provide their employees with the best current information about risks in order to assist paramedics in making defensible decisions in difficult circumstances. Education plays a key role in providing paramedics with an understanding and appreciation of fundamental professional obligations by focusing attention on both the medical and ethical challenges involved with disaster response. Finally, codes of ethics might be useful, but ultimately paramedic decisions around professional obligations will largely depend on their individual risk assessment, perception of risk, and personal value systems.
- Creator(s)
- Erin Smith,
- Date
- 2:09am 27th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, Dr Erin Smith, disaster, response, paramedic, duty to treat, duty of care, Community Resilience Stream, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - International Thoughts
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A video of a keynote presentation by Sir John Holmes during the sixth plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "International Thoughts".
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- Sir John Holmes,
- Date
- 3:07am 27th February 2016
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- People in Disasters, conference, plenary, Sir John Holmes, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Thoughts for Health
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A video of a presentation by Virginia Murray during the sixth plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. Murray is a Consultant in Global Disaster Risk Reduction at Public Health England. The presentation is titled, "Thoughts for Health".
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- Virginia Murray,
- Date
- 2:53am 27th February 2016
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- People in Disasters, conference, plenary, Virginia Murray, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Understanding the 'Community Action' that is part of 'Community Recovery'
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A video of a presentation by Margaret Moreton during the Community and Social Recovery Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Community and Social Service Organisations in Emergencies and Disasters in Australia and New Zealand".
- Creator(s)
- Margaret Moreton,
- Date
- 2:02am 26th February 2016
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- People in Disasters, conference, Margaret Moreton, recovery, resilience, community, Community and Social Recovery Stream, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Holding onto the Lessons Disasters Teach
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A video of the keynote presentation by Alexander C. McFarlane during the third plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. McFarlane is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Adelaide and the Heady of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies. The presentation is titled, "Holding onto the Lessons Disasters Teach".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
Disasters are sentinel points in the life of the communities affected. They bring an unusual focus to community mental health. In so doing, they provide unique opportunities for better understanding and caring for communities. However, one of the difficulties in the disaster field is that many of the lessons from previous disasters are frequently lost. If anything, Norris (in 2006) identified that the quality of disaster research had declined over the previous 25 years. What is critical is that a longitudinal perspective is taken of representative cohorts. Equally, the impact of a disaster should always be judged against the background mental health of the communities affected, including emergency service personnel. Understandably, many of those who are particularly distressed in the aftermath of a disaster are people who have previously experienced a psychiatric disorder. It is important that disaster services are framed against knowledge of this background morbidity and have a broad range of expertise to deal with the emerging symptoms. Equally, it is critical that a long-term perspective is considered rather than short-term support that attempts to ameliorate distress. Future improvement of disaster management depends upon sustaining a body of expertise dealing with the consequences of other forms of traumatic stress such as accidents. This expertise can be redirected to co-ordinate and manage the impact of larger scale events when disasters strike communities. This presentation will highlight the relevance of these issues to the disaster planning in a country such as New Zealand that is prone to earthquakes.
- Creator(s)
- Alexander C. McFarlane,
- Date
- 8:51pm 25th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, Professor Alexander C. McFarlane, keynote, plenary, lessons, disaster, community, mental health, psychiatric, stress, Health and Wellbeing
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- All Right? Social Media: Video 5
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- A video created in celebration of New Zealand Sign Language Week. The video was part of a series that taught simple sentences in Sign Language and invited people to win a prize by guessing the words being signed. The videos were posted by All Right? to their Facebook Timeline on 16 May 2014 at 4:00pm, and to their YouTube account on 15 May 2014.
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- mental health, wellbeing, All Right, New Zealand Sign Language Week, video, sign language, competition, Facebook, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Land Use Recovery Plan: How an impact assessment process engaged communities in recovery planning
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A video of a presentation by Jane Murray and Stephen Timms during the Social Recovery Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Land Use Recovery Plan: How an impact assessment process engaged communities in recovery planning".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
In response to the Canterbury earthquakes, the Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery directed Environment Canterbury (Canterbury's regional council) to prepare a Land Use Recovery Plan that would provide a spatial planning framework for Greater Christchurch and aid recovery from the Canterbury earthquakes. The Land Use Recovery Plan sets a policy and planning framework necessary to rebuild existing communities and develop new communities. As part of preparing the plan, an integrated assessment was undertaken to address wellbeing and sustainability concerns. This ensured that social impacts of the plan were likely to achieve better outcomes for communities. The process enabled a wide range of community and sector stakeholders to provide input at the very early stages of drafting the document. The integrated assessment considered the treatment of major land use issues in the plan, e.g. overall distribution of activities across the city, integrated transport routes, housing typography, social housing, employment and urban design, all of which have a key impact on health and wellbeing. Representatives from the Canterbury Health in All Policies Partnership were involved in designing a three-part assessment process that would provide a framework for the Land Use Recovery Plan writers to assess and improve the plan in terms of wellbeing and sustainability concerns. The detail of these assessment stages, and the influence that they had on the draft plan, will be outlined in the presentation. In summary, the three stages involved: developing key wellbeing and sustainability concerns that could form a set of criteria, analysing the preliminary draft of the Land Use Recovery Plan against the criteria in a broad sector workshop, and analysing the content and recommendations of the Draft Plan. This demonstrates the importance of integrated assessment influencing the Land Use Recovery Plan that in turn influences other key planning documents such as the District Plan. This process enabled a very complex document with wide-ranging implications to be broken down, enabling many groups, individuals and organisations to have their say in the recovery process. There is also a range of important lessons for recovery that can be applied to other projects and actions in a disaster recovery situation.
- Creator(s)
- Jane Murray, Stephen Timms,
- Date
- 12:23am 26th February 2016
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- People in Disasters, conference, Jane Murray, Stephen Timms, Miria Goodwin, Environment Canterbury, ECan, resilience, planning, strategy, collaboration, Recovery Stream, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Organisational Resilience is more than just Business Continuity
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A video of a presentation by Associate Professor John Vargo during the fifth plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. Vargo is a senior researcher and co-leader of the Resilient Organisations Research Programme at the University of Canterbury. The presentation is titled, "Organisational Resilience is more than just Business Continuity".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
Business Continuity Management is well-established process in many larger organisations and a key element in their emergency planning. Research carried out by resilient organisations follow the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury Earthquakes show that most small organisations did not have a business continuity plan (BCP), yet many of these organisations did survive the massive disruptions following the earthquakes. They were resilient to these catastrophic events, but in the absence of a BCP. This research also found that many of the organisations with BCP's, struggled to use them effectively when facing real events that did not align with the BCP. Although the BCPs did a good job of preparing organisations to deal with technology and operational disruptions, there was virtually no coverage for the continuity of people. Issues surrounding staff welfare and engagement were amongst the most crucial issues faced by Canterbury organisations, yet impacts of societal and personal disruption did not feature in BCPs. Resilience is a systematic way of looking at how an organization can survive a crisis and thrive in an uncertain world. Business continuity is an important aspect for surviving the crisis, but it is only part of the bigger picture addressed by organisational resilience. This presentation will show how organizational experiences in the Canterbury earthquakes support the need to move to a 'Business Continuity' for the '21st Century', one that incorporates more aspects of resilience, especially the 'people' areas of leadership, culture, staff welfare, and engagement.
- Creator(s)
- John Vargo,
- Date
- 9:40pm 26th February 2016
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- People in Disasters, conference, Associate Professor John Vargo, emergency, planning, business, business continuity plan, organisation, plenary, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Panel Two
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A video of the second panel discussion at the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The panel is made up of keynote speaker Dr Jeanne LeBlanc and guests Dr Penelope Burns and Dr Phil Schroeder.
- Creator(s)
- Jeanne LeBlanc, Penelope Burns, Phil Schroeder,
- Date
- 5:10am 25th February 2016
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- People in Disasters, conference, plenary, panel discussion, Dr Jeanne LeBlanc, Dr Penelope Burns, Dr Phil Schroeder, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Panel Five
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A video of the panel discussion during the fifth plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The panel is made up of keynote speaker Professor Jonathan Davidson, and guests Associate Professor John Vargo and Associate Professor Sarbjit Johal.
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- John Vargo, Jonathan Davidson, Sarbjit Johal,
- Date
- 10:24pm 26th February 2016
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- People in Disasters, conference, plenary, panel discussion, Associate Professor John Vargo, Associate Professor Sarbjit Johal, Professor Jonathan Davidson, Health and Wellbeing
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- All Right? Social Media: Video 4
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- A video created in celebration of New Zealand Sign Language Week. The video was part of a series that taught simple sentences in Sign Language and invited people to win a prize by guessing the words being signed. The videos were posted by All Right? to their Facebook Timeline on 16 May 2014 at 10:55am, and to their YouTube account on 15 May 2014.
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- mental health, wellbeing, All Right, New Zealand Sign Language Week, video, sign language, competition, Facebook, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Medical Clowning in Disaster Zones
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A video of a presentation by Thomas Petschner during the Resilience and Response Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Medical Clowning in Disaster Zones".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
To be in a crisis caused by different kinds of natural disasters (as well as a man made incidents), dealing with ongoing increase of problems and frequent confrontation with very bad news isn't something that many people can easily cope with. This applies obviously to affected people but also to the members of SAR teams, doctors in the field and the experienced humanitarians too. The appropriate use of humour in crisis situations and dis-functional environments is a great tool to make those difficult moments more bearable for everyone. It helps injured and traumatised people cope with what they're facing, and can help them to recover more quickly too. At the same time humorous thinking can help to solve some of the complex problems emergency responders face. This is in addition to emergency and medical only reactions - allowing for a more holistic human perspective, which can provide a positive lasting effect. The ability to laugh is hardwired into our systems bringing a huge variety of physical, mental and social benefits. Even a simple smile can cultivate optimism and hope, while laughter can boost a hormone cocktail - which helps to cope with pain, enhance the immune system, reduce stress, re-focus, connect and unite people during difficult times. Humour as an element of psychological response in crisis situations is increasingly understood in a much wider sense: as the human capacity to plan and achieve desired outcomes with less stress, thus resulting in more 'predictable' work in unpredictable situations. So, if we approach certain problems in the same way Medical Clowns do, we may find a more positive solution. Everyone knows that laughter is an essential component of a healthy, happy life. The delivery of 'permission to laugh' into disaster zones makes a big difference to the quality of life for everyone, even if it's for a very short, but important period of time. And it's crucial to get it right as there is no second chance for the first response.
- Creator(s)
- Thomas Petschner,
- Date
- 12:24am 27th February 2016
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- People in Disasters, conference, humour, health, Thomas Petschner, clowning, clown doctors, Resilience and Response Stream, Health and Wellbeing
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- All Right? Social Media: Video 3
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- A video created in celebration of New Zealand Sign Language Week. The video was part of a series that taught simple sentences in Sign Language and invited people to win a prize by guessing the words being signed. The videos were posted by All Right? to their Facebook Timeline on 18 May 2014 at 6:00am, and to their YouTube account on 15 May 2014.
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- mental health, wellbeing, All Right, New Zealand Sign Language Week, video, sign language, competition, Facebook, Health and Wellbeing