flourish: Personhood and Collective Wellbeing : Giving voice to invisible and challenged communities

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McAra-McWilliam, Irene and McHattie, Lynn-Sayers and Broadley, Cara (2014) flourish: Personhood and Collective Wellbeing : Giving voice to invisible and challenged communities. Scottish Universities Insight Institute.

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Abstract

A major focus of our research is on ageing, dignity and end of life care and how our society can create and support wider compassionate and caring practices at the point of need. We have developed an interdisciplinary network of academics, practitioners, and policy makers throughout a series of Seasonal Seminars in Glasgow and Forres to together consider ways to elicit, capture, and communicate such community narratives and to demonstrate how wellbeing can or could thrive. This follows an assets-based approach – to identify existing skills, talents, and capabilities from within communities, that may be hidden or ineffable (Foot and Hopkins, 2010; Glasgow Centre for Population Health, 2012; Baker, 2014) – and to devise creative ways to share these strengths with others in order to ‘flourish’.

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