Neurodiversity training, PCS NatureScot
Online training for PCS members at NatureScot.
Issues and campaigns: NHS and Health
Poems and pondering on all matters health, and on fighting to defend our NHS.
Poetry in Asylum magazine
Janine has recently taken over as Poetry Editor of Asylum magazine. Asylum wants your poetry for our radical mental health magazine. Asylum has been running for nearly forty years, providing a platform for all perspectives on mental health. Asylum is influenced and … Read more
End of the Line
Walk down locked and empty streets alone, arrive for start of shift, it’s bear-the-brunt time to serve some others’ families not your own Going from the home front to the frontline Frozen pay, now tiny, ice-cold ‘offers’, red-bordered bills alert … Read more
PCS Wales Neurodiversity training, day 2
Registration for this training is closed.
Unison North West: Neurodiversity training
A one-day course in Manchester. Details to follow.
PCS Neurodiversity in the Workplace: Stage 1 course
Open to all PCS members. Please contact your branch secretary or training officer for details.
Autistic Pride
Woolwich Common Youth Club, 144 Nightingale Place, Woolwich SE18 4HE Autistic speakers, poets and singers. Come and buy from the stalls with art, clothing, books and jewellery, all autistic made. 1.15pm Welcome opening by Emma Dalmayne 1.15 – 1.35pm – … Read more
NeurodiVERSE in Brighton
Brighton launch of NeurodiVERSE, an anthology of poetry by neurodivergent writers Three of the contributors to (and two of the co-editors of) NeurodiVERSE provide the entertainment as we launch this anthology of poetry by neurodivergent writers. Henry Normal is an award-winning … Read more
PCS Neurodiversity in the Workplace Stage 1 training
If you are a PCS member who would like to attend this two-day online course, please contact your branch organiser or regional training officer.
Ambushed by a Cake
He was taken aback by a slice of flapjack Spliced by an iced bun that jumped him for fun And the poor bloke was wholly jammed by a roly poly He was knocked quite agog by a shocking chocolate log He … Read more
Bring Your Own
Bring your own booze Bring your own excitement Bring your own rules Bring your own entitlement Bring your own germs Bring your own immunity Bring your own free pass to party with impunity Bring your own scorn Bring your own … Read more
Drop the Disorder!
Janine’s contribution to A Disorder for Everyone’s online poetry gig challenging the mainstream narrative on mental health, held on 16 April 2021, featuring the poems Locked Up and Down and Not OK.
Unprecedented Rhymes – Live!
On 29 April 2021, Janine launched her poetry collection, ‘Unprecedented Rhymes – verses versus the virus’. Featuring guest speaker Ali Brown from Safe and Equal, and guest rhymester The Repeat Beat Poet, this is the hour-long online launch.
CWU Neurodiversity training
Details from your CWU branch secretary.
Anti-Vax Parallax
Blocking folk from getting jabs Harassing working people Spouting endless bafflegab While calling others sheeple Sharing psychobabble memes Spurning free protection This is off so many beams This isn’t insurrection I too don’t trust authority I want to smash the … Read more
Poeting at Lava Elastic, Brighton
Venue: Sweet Werks, Werks Central, 15-17 Middle Street, Brighton, BN1 1AL Tickets here. LAVA ELASTIC is the UK’s FIRST openly neurodiverse comedy/performance/poetry night…brought to you by neurodivergent performer (late diagnosis of Aspergers) Sarah Saeed – aka operatic comedy diva Marianna … Read more
Poeting at Lava Elastic, Brighton
Sweet Venues, Brighton Neurodiverse comedy and poetry … a daytime show just to shake things up a bit. This Sunday’s brilliant acts include Cheekykita, Sha Wylie and poetry from Alain English and Janine Booth Tickets are available in advance, not … Read more
Practical Humanistic Models for Supporting Autistic People in Distress: time for a paradigm shift?
a guest post by Ian Hutchinson, autistic clinician – NHS children’s services, Cornwall Thinking about practical humanistic models for supporting autistic people in distress, time for a paradigm shift? Over recent years and in service provision ranging from education and … Read more
PCS Online Neurodiversity in the Workplace Stage 1 training
If you are a PCS member and would like to attend this two-day online course, please contact your branchorganiser or regional office.
Hancock’s Last Hour
A classic of Great British humour Slapstick, slap-and-tickle, caught on candid camera And everyone likes to see the bad guy get his comeuppance, don’t they? But there is something of the gangster genre about it too where Al Capone is … Read more