#APConnect⭐️

#APConnect⭐️ has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in July 2021. Resources APConnect has populated their site with include: • APToolkit - superbly useful stuff designed with Advanced Practice in mind • Bowerbird: a metaphor for collecting practice evidence which might otherwise end up on the cutting room floor. • Constellations: time limited, open bordered, common purposed, practices of difference. Not 'like minds' but 'like values'. • Endurance: a collective endeavour which is critical but not cynical • Gobackery: the gravitational pull of old thinking, a powerful force. Coined by Jennifer Thetford-Kay, AP at Shipley College • Hot Sauce: an approach to dialling levels of 'theory' up and down. How hot do you like your sauce? • Ideas Rooms: efficient thinking spaces with a powerful emotional, cognitive and physical wake. A culture changing practice. • Living Archive - the history of Advanced Practice • Northstar: capacity-building train the trainers strand of #APConnect - leading the way to sustainability • Pausing: slowing things down, so you can think (and resist) - slow ontology, intentional pausing, waves and pauses • Potestas and Potentia: different kinds of power. Potestas = power as usual, the individual, hierarchy, status, the tree. Potentia = activist power, influence, collective, bluebells • Professional Development: Expert-led CPD + Professional (peer-led) Learning (hint: we need less 'CPD' than we think we do) • Rhizome: bluebells, rather than trees, a way of working which ripples out unexpectedly; a powerful culture changing force • Skylarks: AP-led cross-organisational events, designed and implemented by APs, scaffolded by #APConnect • Thinking Environment: a framework to enable independent thinking; a powerful culture changing tool • The Values Line: a practical approach to living values not just laminating them • Wicked Problems: entangled problems with no single solution