Comments on: Risk-in vulnerability https://incharge.net.au/risk-in-vulnerability/ Developing the capacity of people with disability for self direction Wed, 26 Jun 2019 02:54:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Sarah Forbes https://incharge.net.au/risk-in-vulnerability/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:32:58 +0000 https://incharge.net.au/?p=374#comment-28 Libby your thoughtfulness on this topic is encouraging to me. I’ve recently been thinking about how to best promote the gifts and contributions of people in my neighbourhood, who don’t necessarily have disability labels, but have other labels like ‘poor’, ‘alcoholic’, ‘unstable’, ‘hoarder’ and ‘weird’. The best method I’ve found so far, and leaning heavily on the thoughts of people more clever than me (John McKnight, John O’Brien, Beth Mount), is to seek out their talents, and link them with people who could benefit from those talents. The man who has the ‘hoarder’ label, was able to give very accurate advice to a friend of ours who was trying to lay carpet, and gave him free supplies from his vast collection. Our friend, who began the interaction very dubiously, was thrilled with the outcome. The question for those of us without labels is sometimes, ‘What is the cost of being in kinship with and associated with people who have labels?’.

Keep prompting us to action! Sarah.

]]> By: Bronwyn Moloney https://incharge.net.au/risk-in-vulnerability/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:35:43 +0000 https://incharge.net.au/?p=374#comment-27 Thanks for your insights Libby. I have just downloaded Brene Brown’s podcast and hope to listen to it this weekend.

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