Providing clinical supervision to a colleague the other day, I noticed a rich stream of thoughts occurring to me. Ideas were easily finding their words of expression, connections between concepts were lighting up at a glance. It was a generative experience, a creative endeavour, emergence was emerging. I smiled inwardly to myself because isn’t that […]
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It’s Birthday week for #Victoria!!🎉🎉 MyST moved into Victoria 2 years ago this week! We are looking forward to celebrating with you all this week!! 🎉 @torfaencouncil @MonmouthshireCC @NewportCouncil @BlaenauGwentCBC @CaerphillyCBC pic.twitter.com/KjrfFbBOVE — MyST-My Support Team (@MySupportTeam_) June 27, 2022
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Graffiti Project #Victoria clip.Where young people worked through the process and learnt to let go!Amazing thanks to @nellybobbles @ameliaunity 🎨🖌👨🎨👩🎨#learningthroughart #workingthroughtheprocess #talentedyoungpeople #Art#ArtTalk #LettingGo @torfaencouncil @BoardGwent pic.twitter.com/hzJwqGRPCL — MyST-My Support Team (@MySupportTeam_) June 22, 2022
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At MyST, part of the role of each team is to offer something useful to our professional partners so that together, we can make a positive impact upon children’s wellbeing. This partnership approach aims to bring about systems changes which are greater than the sum of their parts. It’s a little bit like the art […]
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Here it is! #TyPawb Arts Project! Truly inspirational & heartwarming. Certainly brings character to the building. A massive thank you to @ben_connors for supporting & helping with all the ideas @CaerphillyCBC @nellybobbles #Arts #VisionstoLife #Capture #inspiration pic.twitter.com/C0fc4udgRd — MyST-My Support Team (@MySupportTeam_) May 11, 2022
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Every month we meet the Manager and Clinical Psychologist pairs who jointly lead each of our MyST teams. In one such meeting recently we were discussing how a team were doing in their work. A theme emerged of team members’ needs and how it made such a difference to a team’s performance if these needs […]
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Our approach at MyST to helping children who are looked after involves working with the young person and everyone else in the adult system around them. Of course, very central is the young person’s parent or carer; their main caregiver and primary attachment figure. As such, much of our clinical work is undertaken with our […]
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A lovely couple of hours planting this morning here @MySTFostering! Massive thank you to Jan and Linda @BronAfon for the continued support and help 💛 @torfaencouncil @BlaenauGwentCBC @MonmouthshireCC @NewportCouncil @CaerphillyCBC 🌱 🪴 🌳 pic.twitter.com/a2akx3SnOX — MyST-My Support Team (@MySupportTeam_) April 1, 2022
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1/2 Facebook reply from Ally- The 1st book I ever bought myself was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The most atmospheric book I read was 'Chocolat' because I read it in rural France, so was there in person & through the book. My go to book is pic.twitter.com/YTGrMmrcQo — MyST-My Support Team (@MySupportTeam_) March 3, […]
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At the moment, MyST is a growing service and so we’ve been holding job interviews recently. We value the involvement of young people in our recruitment processes, and over the years, their participation has taken different forms. This time, with winter Covid restrictions limiting the number and size of our interview panels, we asked young […]
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