Creating shared purpose

Editor's Notes

• #22: Link belowhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23790147http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/martin-luther-king-i-have-a-dream-pt-1-2/1293.html With the brooding statue of Abraham Lincoln peering down at him, King began by telling protesters that their presence in the symbolic shadow of the "great emancipator" offered proof of the marvellous new militancy sweeping the country. For too long, he complained, black Americans had been exiles in their own land, "crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination". The whirlwinds of revolt would continue to shake the very foundations of the country: "And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as normal," King said. It would be fatal for the nation "to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro". “He's good - he's damned good” Kennedy on King Wearied by the suffocating heat, the crowd's initial response was muted. The speech was not going well. "Tell 'em about the dream, Martin," shouted Mahalia Jackson, referring to a rhetorical riff that King had used several times before, but which had not made it into his prepared speech because aides insisted he needed fresh material. But King decided to cast aside his prepared notes, and launched extemporaneously into the refrain for which he will forever be remembered. "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed," he shouted, his out-stretched right arm reaching towards the sky. Soon he was hitting his rhythm, invigorated by the chants and cries of the crowd. "Dream on!" they shouted. "Dream on!" With his voice thundering down the Mall, King imagined a future in which his children could "live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character". Then he reached his impassioned finale. King asked the crowd to yell so it was heard the world over Watching at the White House, the president was riveted. Like so many Americans, it was the first time he had heard the 34-year-old preacher deliver a speech in its entirety - the first time he had taken its measure, listened to its cadence. "He's good," Kennedy told one of his advisors. "He's damned good." The aide was struck, however, that the president seemed impressed more by the quality of King's performance rather than the power of his message.
• #23: We want to share our journey in FICare, which we are still, and always will be on. As with many good things, it started at a time of challenge…. In 2015 we moved into our new NNU, which you see here. Bringing together two existing Units and their teams. We had a fantastic new house, but it didn’t feel like a home, nor did we feel like one big happy family,..with over 40 families, and over 200 staff…… There were challenges in communication, in continuity and we felt disempowered One nightshift Ainsley told be how much better things were in Newcastle…. It made me sad that we didn’t have the same pride in our own unit, and the same support for families.,,,,
• #26: This concept of involving families in the care of their baby in the Neonatal Unit is not new, some of our enlightened colleagues have appreciated this for a long time. One group in particular who embraced this concept and translated it from lower resource settings to the highly-resourced NICU are Karel O’Brien, Shoo Lee and colleagues in Mount Sinai in Toronto. They gave it a name, Family Integrated Care, and demonstrated the benefits in a pilot study, and a more recent cluster randomized controlled trial, published last year. Consistently demonstrated improvements for babies and parents. AND WE HEARD ABOUT PIONEERING UNITS IN THE UK WHO WERE TRYING THIS APPROACH, IN LEEDS, IN IMPERIAL, IN EXETER, SWANSEA.
• #27: WE returned full of enthusiasm, hyper motivated But quickly realized that not everyone shared our enthusiasm: Some were worried that involving families was a way of reducing nursing shifts Some thought it was about letting parents give IV drugs, or cannulate or intubate their baby WE REALISED THAT THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE IS THE CHANGE IN CULTURE FOR STAFF, FROM CARER TO MENTOR
• #30: SO HOW DID WE DO THAT IN OUR UNIT? WE STARTED BY USING “FOUR PILLARS OF FIC” FROM TORONTO, BUT ADDED A FIFTH “COMMUNICATION” AND AS IMPORTANTLY, WHAT YOU SEE HERE ARE DIFFERENT STAFF PUTTING THEIR NAME UP AGAINST GROUPS, AND STAFF, INCLUDING MANY STAFF NURSES, VOLUNTEERING TO LEAD AND CO-ORDINATE THESE GROUPS.
• #45: So Emotions help us understand what we value in the world. Why did the story of Alice work ? So why was this story powerful? Why do we respond differently when we hear about Alice rather than when we see the policy data and financial balance sheet? So public narrative when used intentionally for a purpose to connect with others to move to action is a powerful skills set and leadership gift. When we hear stories that make us feel a certain way those stories remind us of our core values. We experience our values through emotions. Then we are prepared to take action on those values. Through our emotions we are more likely to take action Research by Martha Nussbaum a Moral philosopher, tells us that people who have a damaged (a-mig-da- la) Amygadla the part of the brain which controls emotions, when faced with decisions can come up with many options from which to choose but cannot make a decision because the decision rests upon judgements of value. If we cannot feel emotion we cannot experience values that orient us to the choices we must make Shortly we will be thinking about the lived experiences that have moved you to action…we’ll be drawing on those a few minutes as you start to craft your own stories.