Ron has already spent most of the last 2 weeks off island.

Last week he was down in Bristol running a workshop for Second Step Housing and speaking at a Rethink stake-holder event both were themed on taking recovery forward, there has been lots of talk of the theoretical aspects of recovery but much less on actually practically implementing it, something Ron & I love getting involved in. This is the nuts and bolts of recovery, how to "be" a recovery worker, using the tools of person centred planning, of working differently with psychosis and self harm, using "self" as a recovery model.

How many organisations have actually looked at how they organise themselves? Are their policies recovery focussed or do they hinder recovery? Are their middle managers onboard, is their paperwork recovery focussed, do they treat their staff in a person centred way?; these are the kind of questions Ron & I like to ask when we are engaged to work for an organisation.

This week he has been in Angus working with consumers on how they can take their day services forward.

Then the train down to Chester to work with Social worker ASW students, then the train back to Fife where he is running a workshop at the fife recovery conference.

An exhausting programme of training and travelling which he equally loves and hates. I cannot imagine him being in one place for more than a few weeks before he gets the urge to travel, still it will be interesting watch him relax and develop his garden and the croft so eventually we wont need to go off island so much.