Creativity

Philip J Connolly

Jul 3, 2023
2 min

Being Special

What makes the Disability Resilience Network advocacy model special?

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The beautiful game just got more beautiful - here's how the DRN did it! Looking back from 2025.

Philip J Connolly

Jan 17, 2023
1 min

The beautiful game just got more beautiful - here's how the DRN did it! Looking back from 2025.

The beautiful game just got more beautiful - here's how the DRN did it!

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Disability, Self-Sufficiency and Mutualism

Philip J Connolly

Aug 18, 2022
3 min

Disability, Self-Sufficiency and Mutualism

Ok, so you've signed a petition, been on a march, added your details to the sum of evidence and yet still been ignored. What’s left?...

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Air Pollution is Making More of us Disabled

Philip J Connolly

Jul 14, 2022
3 min

Air Pollution is Making More of us Disabled

Dr Dean Schraufnagel of Illinois University has led a review of 70,000 scientific studies and concluded that every organ of the body is...

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Philip J Connolly

Jun 20, 2022
3 min

New Energy for the Unity Plan

If the disability sector is to advance then it will need to find new energy but where is this energy going to come from?

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The Unity Plan: how the DRN builds an inclusive economy with you

Philip J Connolly

May 5, 2022
3 min

The Unity Plan: how the DRN builds an inclusive economy with you

2000 people have connected with the Disability Resilience Network - the DRN. It is our hope that you can be connected too!

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"To the metaverse and back to the universe"

Philip J Connolly

Apr 25, 2022
4 min

"To the metaverse and back to the universe"

Your invitation to join the DRN purple trade mission and secure your place at our exhibition

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Philip J Connolly

Apr 10, 2022
3 min

Rethink on Barriers

Of course there are barriers and they are in the main real and even hazardous. But! But have barriers been overthought? For decades the word

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"Touchyfeely": enabling disabled people to create markets that in turn employ them

Philip J Connolly

Mar 31, 2022
3 min

"Touchyfeely": enabling disabled people to create markets that in turn employ them

Enabling disabled people to create markets that in turn employ them.

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Nigel Niles

Feb 28, 2022
3 min

Preparing for Our Demise

It is a bit strange that on the eve of building something new and important, that we should even be thinking of “demise”.

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Mass Membership: feedback on our scenario planning

Philip J Connolly

Feb 21, 2022
3 min

Mass Membership: feedback on our scenario planning

We will become the biggest network for disabled people and those with a long-term health condition because you decided to join us.

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"Creating our Own Weather" DRN's theory of change

Philip J Connolly

Feb 7, 2022
3 min

"Creating our Own Weather" DRN's theory of change

Rainforests occupy only 6% of the earth's surface but 50% of the world's animals live there. Why? Its because rainforests create their...

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Cut through thinking on disability policy

Philip J Connolly

May 24, 2021
5 min

Cut through thinking on disability policy

Do you know the game called rock, paper, scissors? If you do you will recognise that a surprise is always possible.

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The Book of Exhumations; spilling the beans so we can all smell the coffee

Philip J Connolly

May 10, 2021
6 min

The Book of Exhumations; spilling the beans so we can all smell the coffee

I have been involved in disability politics long enough to have a nuisance value, you see I know where the bodies are buried. I want to move

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The Dust Jacket: A two part fantasy blog

Philip J Connolly

Apr 15, 2021
4 min

The Dust Jacket: A two part fantasy blog

Human beings are a mix of dust and water. We are two thirds dust and one third water.

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Philip J Connolly

Feb 24, 2021
5 min

Catalysing Reactions for Seismic Change

Covid-19: Were the consequences avoidable and will the aftermath benefit from what you the readers know and do? “A stitch in time saves...

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Philip J Connolly

Feb 15, 2021
4 min

Thoughts from a Creative Disruptor

I was recently asked by one disability activist what do you do once you have told your story. Perhaps your own successful story of...

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