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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
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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
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Positively Disruptive Leadership
Finding leaders isn't difficult once people know what leadership isn't.
Philip J Connolly
Mar 7, 20224 min read
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Disability Unleashed
The starting point of being counter-cultural is your determination not to have your life mapped out in the statistics that describe the norm
Philip J Connolly
Jun 7, 20214 min read
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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
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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
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Hire Vision: changing the narrative
As a disability movement we need the energy that flows from a renewal of our vision.
Philip J Connolly
Apr 28, 20215 min read
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Liberation Technology
Technology gives disabled people the ability to disrupt their assigned traditional role: to be disseminators of information and not simply r
Philip J Connolly
Apr 6, 20214 min read
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Interdependent Living – there is such a thing as society!
Interdependence brings news, information, acquaintances, neighbours, friends and all the opportunities that flow from that.
Philip J Connolly
Mar 29, 20215 min read
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Disability for physicists, astrophysicists and the simply curious
The universe is not based upon binary choices, light itself is a spectrum so could disability policy itself be more of a spectrum condition.
Philip J Connolly
Mar 19, 20214 min read
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Generation Z is Already Making its Mark
Well just imagine I am 15. I am the archetypal young disabled person wanting to work. I am not asking you the reader to be the First monkey
Philip J Connolly
Mar 3, 20214 min read
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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...
Philip J Connolly
Feb 24, 20215 min read
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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
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