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Training - Kids in Museums

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GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 27

What needs to be in place to keep yourself and you colleagues safe when working with young adults in the area of mental health? We're on with our friends @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social on 8 July, 10-12:30. It's going to be a fab session - come along and find out!

kidsinmuseums.org.uk/what-we-do/t...

We provide a range of training events and consultancy for the museum sector in the UK and internationally - our new summer programme is available to book now.

kidsinmuseums.org.uk

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GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 27

What needs to be in place to keep yourself and you colleagues safe when working with young adults in the area of mental health? We're on with our friends @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social on 8 July, 10-12:30. It's going to be a fab session - come along and find out!

kidsinmuseums.org.uk/what-we-do/t...

Training - Kids in Museums

We provide a range of training events and consultancy for the museum sector in the UK and internationally - our new summer programme is available to book now.

kidsinmuseums.org.uk

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GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

A big thank you to everyone who attended #GlamCares2025 from across the UK! A great day exploring care for practitioners in all models of engagement work and lots to take away!

Photo shows a long piece of paper with a drawing of the UK and the text 'whete are you from?'. In different colour pen, people have labelled the cities they travelled from to attend the conference. Cities from the Midlands to the east of Scotland are labelled

GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our final workshop explored how making zines can help you explore and present ideas, construct futures and think creatively. As a tool for participant and practitioner wellbeing, zines give space for reflection and community building

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A photo of a screen explaining 'what is a zine', with images of some zines and the words small, self published, pamphlet style small books, hand made'

GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

Setting us up for a workshop to try out some wellbeing activities, Tom Hughes from Dumfries and Galloway sets the scene for simple and low cost activities museums can offer, including warm spaces and wellbeing walks

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GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

Setting us up for a workshop to try out some wellbeing activities, Tom Hughes from Dumfries and Galloway sets the scene for simple and low cost activities museums can offer, including warm spaces and wellbeing walks

#GlamCares2025

GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

The Art House share their programme for perinatal mental health care using creativity., building on a need recognised by midwives.

the-arthouse.org.uk/maternal-jou...

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A slide is shown about the Maternal Journal project, supporting birthing parents with mild or moderate mental health needs, using creative activities and prompts to boost wellbeing

GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our final session explores Creative Health, a practice we've heard a lot about. Creative activities can support a huge range of participants as well as practitioners, and work at all scales.

First, a presentation on creativity for birthing parents, then hands-on activities!

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GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

'real life is messy and unpredictable, and community engagement should reflect this'.

Plan and allow for adaptation from the start to better care for staff, participants, and increase impact

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GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

-speak to funders to ask for flexibility when things change
-understand the pressures and ambitions of partner organisations and work together to define success
-explore different ways to capture impact
-realistic targets, value meaning over mass participation

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GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

Pallant House has a long-running art engagement programme, and explore how to plan for the unexpected - exciting or challenging, from unrealistic targets to unknown participants to magic moments.

Change your definition of a successful project!

pallant.org.uk/learn-with-u...

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A large screen shows a yellow slide asking 'have you ever led a project that didn't turn out how you'd expected? Have you ever experienced outcomes you couldn't have foreseen?'

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Tamsin C Russell @tamsincrussell.bsky.social · Jun 26

Lovely to hear from Bryony talk through the availablity of autonomy and agency within your space. #GLAMCares2025 @glamcares.bsky.social

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GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

Questions from Bryony to ask yourself about some of the things that may be taking up your energyb- think about what is in or outside your control, and putting your energy into the things that you can control.

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A large screen shows the questions, what is the cost to you, what is within your control, what do you need to let go of, what impact would this have on you?

Community Participation | York Museums Trust

GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

GLAM cares board member Bryony Rowntree now leads a workshop on centring and empowering yourself, exploring spheres of control and giving tools to take away.

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A group of people are shown standing up from the back. At the front a large screen shows a slide with a picture of a tree and the phrase 'root deep, stand strong, branch out'

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Tamsin C Russell @tamsincrussell.bsky.social · Jun 26

Great to hear about the work of York Museum Trust to develop a new framework for community engagement. www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/community-en... #GLAMCares2025 @glamcares.bsky.social

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GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

Qu - how do you get buy-in for creative research?
- creativity opens up different conversations
- it allows for flexibility and responsiveness
- 'messy' research can demonstrate real impact

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GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

Qu for the panel - ways of working with people with specific lived experience?
- work with partner orgs who have their best interests in mind and expertise
- treat people as individuals
- take time to build trust
- work 'with'/'by' people, not 'about' them

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A guide to using the Theoretical Domains Framework of behaviour change to investigate implementation problems - Implementation Science

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Tamsin C Russell @tamsincrussell.bsky.social · Jun 26

@glamcares.bsky.social #GLAMCares learning new things - implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10..... Theoretical Domain Framework.

Background Implementing new practices requires changes in the behaviour of relevant actors, and this is facilitated by understanding of the determinants of current and desired behaviours. The Theoreti...

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Participatory action research - Nature Reviews Methods Primers

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Tamsin C Russell @tamsincrussell.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Exploring Participatory Action Research. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Participatory action research (PAR) involves the participation and leadership of people experiencing issues, who take action to produce emancipatory social change, through conducting systematic resear...

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GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

York Museums Trust created a framework for participation, defining what it means to them, what a 'conmunity' is, and why this matters to the organisation. They brought teams together to create the framework and embed it as a way of working.

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Food and Drink Oral History Project | Birmingham Museums

GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

Birmingham Museums Trust is in a unique partnership with the council's Public Health department, looking at how heritage can change health behaviour, and using participatory research and balancing museum methods and Health data needs.

www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/about/what-w...

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Reinterpreting our oral history collections through a public health lens In an innovative partnership, Birmingham Museums Trust and Birmingham City Council

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GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

Dulwich Picture Gallery used Participatory Action Research to genuinely listen to what communities needed from the gallery. A year of working in local venues and sharing power built trust and is changing the way the gallery works in the future as well their offer.

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GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our afternoon sessions start with a presentation, panel and workshop on community engagement. Advocating for staff wellbeing in this work, and empowering yourself while planning for the unexpected!

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GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social · Jun 26

Advocating for the value of community work can be a challenge, and recognising that the relationship is as/more important as a physical output

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