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"To the metaverse and back to the universe"
Your invitation to join the DRN purple trade mission and secure your place at our exhibition

Philip J Connolly
Apr 25, 20224 min read


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

Philip J Connolly
Apr 10, 20223 min read


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

Philip J Connolly
Mar 31, 20223 min read


Semiotics of Disability
Semiotics is the study of anything that communicates something. The anything is regarded as a sign and the something is its meaning....

Philip J Connolly
Mar 21, 20224 min read


Positively Disruptive Leadership
Finding leaders isn't difficult once people know what leadership isn't.

Philip J Connolly
Mar 7, 20224 min read


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”.

Nigel Niles
Feb 28, 20223 min read


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.

Philip J Connolly
Feb 21, 20223 min read


"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...

Philip J Connolly
Feb 7, 20223 min read


The Purple (Disability) Planet: The DRN Invitation and Challenge to the BBC
David Attenborough was once asked, what gave him hope. He replied "the indomitable spirit of humans and the resilience of nature."

Philip J Connolly
Jan 31, 20224 min read


Mission Ignition
The Disability Resilience Network is asking for two years of your free time, say about five hours a week.

Philip J Connolly
Jan 24, 20224 min read


The Book of Numbers
The Disability Resilience Network seeks to capitalise on the wisdom of the crowd.

Philip J Connolly
Jan 18, 20223 min read


The Inclusive Economy - The Disability Resilience Network (DRN) Goal
The DRN is a network and we are already welding national representation to local activism. Our evolving structure will allow us to conduct c

Philip J Connolly
Jan 10, 20223 min read


Tipping points for a mass movement
Tipping point theory tells us how small differences can make a new reality or break an old one.

Philip J Connolly
Jan 2, 20224 min read


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.

Philip J Connolly
May 24, 20215 min read


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

Philip J Connolly
May 10, 20216 min read


Releasing the Spellbound
Mythology is near impossible to shift. The secret to defeating mythology is to have a more potent story from which to construct a new mythol

Philip J Connolly
Mar 11, 20215 min read


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...

Philip J Connolly
Feb 15, 20214 min read


The Rock and Roll Years
Last year I was asked by Sky news if they could interview me as a person with Parkinsons disease on what I thought the challenges would...

Philip J Connolly
Jan 18, 20213 min read


New Year Love Letter
A love letter to disabled people There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known Nothing you can see that isn’t shown There’s nowhere you...

Philip J Connolly
Jan 8, 20214 min read
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