We met for the last time yesterday\u00a0morning to think about where & what next. \u00a0The aim was to take some of the residual\u00a0fuzziness out of the GEEP concept, and to allow development to continue. \u00a0Someone had the idea that\u00a0GEEP should be a one-stop gateway, which sounded fine, but gateway into what, I wondered. \u00a0Is it for practitioners someone said. \u00a0A sharing site suggested another. \u00a0And so on.<\/p>\n
After watching an apiopa video about air pollution workshops in California someone asked whether such videos might be 'GEEPed'. \u00a0\"Yes, they can\", someone else said, confirming, once again, that all nouns, even new ones, can be verbed.<\/p>\n
Our facilitator\u00a0talked about the global social service workforce alliance, <\/em>saying that this had had the\u00a0same development uncertainties\u00a0as GEEP, and the same questions to find answers to.<\/p>\n We then had small groups. \u00a0Ours\u00a0had the insight that there are\u00a0already, in some countries, GEEP-like organisations that do, in-country, what GEEP might\u00a0like to do across them. \u00a0The UK is one such; the USA another. \u00a0We wondered if\u00a0GEEP could usefully be seen as a group of groups; as an institution connecting national GEEP-like groups, with\u00a0existing global networks,\u00a0e.g. FEE, ... added in.<\/p>\n In this sense, we felt that there might\u00a0be a two-fold purpose to GEEP:<\/p>\n [1] to add value to what is now done nationally, and<\/p>\n [2] to enhance international advocacy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Here, a\u00a0national GEEP would be the representative group to which people and organisations can belong, with possible regional groupings as well arising from\u00a0all this. \u00a0 Well, we shall see. \u00a0I seem to remember volunteering to do something as part of this, though what it was ...<\/p>\n Our deliberations were not all \u00fcber-serious, and there were prizes to be won in a quiz. \u00a0I have a (rather gaudy and over-sized) stuffed ruby-throated humming bird toy in front of me as a write; this chirrups, though not incessantly. \u00a0I acquired this by knowing the answer to this question: What is the biggest source of greenhouse gases in the USA?<\/em><\/p>\n My winning answer was Donald Trump<\/em>, and people were impressed by my in-depth knowledge of US current affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We met for the last time yesterday\u00a0morning to think about where & what next. \u00a0The aim was to take some of the residual\u00a0fuzziness out of the GEEP concept, and to allow development to continue. \u00a0Someone had the idea that\u00a0GEEP should...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}