One Team Gov commit to working in the open, sharing our findings when running events so that others can learn from us. Here you will find stats, feedback from attendees, and lessons learned from running the event.A wonderful sketchnote produced by Angela Buron and featuring all of our speakers on the day.I always feel especially privileged when [...]
Tag: Mental Health
#OTGSP — your questions
On 10 September One Team Gov held an event for World Suicide Prevention Day #WSPD2020. We brought together 14 people working in Suicide Prevention to offer a range of perspectives. Here are some of the questions that you asked on the day, answered by our contributors and organising team.Banners showing a number of our principles: [...]
Weeknotes S10 Ep12
Gif: a red pennant that reads ‘Nebraska’Hi there, it’s Friday and I’m writing my weeknotes! I’ve been getting late with this and for the past couple of weeks it’s taken me until Monday to get them done, which I haven’t enjoyed because I like to write as a way to mentally process the week.Anyway, here [...]
Special leave in lockdown, Pt.2
Keeping some notes even though I’m not workingI started writing some notes about some of the things currently going on in my life during Covid-19, you’ll find Pt.1 here:Through weeknotes writing as a practice I’ve come to realise how writing helps me work through and process things that are happening.When I published Pt.1 I ended it [...]
Weeknotes S8 Ep4
Procrasti-notingDaria saying “I’ve been busy procrastinating all day”Morning, well, it’s nearly afternoon now.I’ve been a bit slow this morning. It’s been a varied week again, my nanny has been on holiday so I had to work from home on Monday and Tuesday to pick up the little one, and picking up work again later in the [...]
For World Mental Health Day 2019: A day in the life
Inspired by James I’m going to share some of my day.It’s 9.24am. There’s a boring consumer rights show hosted by Gloria Hunniford (Gloria Hunniford?!) on the TV but I can’t be bothered to reach over to find the remote to change the channel.I’ve made breakfast and it sits next to me on the arm of the [...]
Mind… Your Own Business at Wellbeing Camp 2019
The MYOB team at #OTGWellbeingCampMotiya Rahman works at the Education and Skills Funding Agency and recently attended #OTGWellbeingCamp with a small group of volunteers to run a stand for their project, here she tells us all about their experience.My team was invited to the event to hold a stall for our project Mind….Your Own Business, [...]
Crafting for Wellbeing at the One Team Gov #WellbeingCamp
Jackie Bryan from the Digital Group at DWP is also a part of HASSRA Leeds Craft Club. The team recently ran some crafting sessions at the #WellbeingCamp so we asked her to share her thoughts about the day…One Team Gov lanyards at the Wellbeing CampWhen we were asked to run a session at the One Team [...]
Weeknotes S6 Ep06
Building the grid at our Local Digital RoadshowRoadshow[1]On the road…This week the Local Digital Collaboration Unit had 100 attendees at The Bartlett School of Architecture, Here East, Stratford to talk about the Local Digital Declaration and hear some case studies, and have an unconference… so not much really.That was Wednesday and it was a busy day; even [...]
Not weeknotes
But a list of links to things I’ve read and found interesting this week.I’ve only ever put these kinds of links at the bottom of my weeknotes and I’m never entirely sure how useful they are to anyone. But if racial and gender biases, feminism, mental health, agile working, user research, content design, AI and “stuff [...]