Wednesday's news from Dyslexia Pathways

Went to a great training event on Wednesday at Dundee University. The training was on resiliance and vulnerable or isolated people. The trainer was excellent, she was very knowledgible and enthusiastic. I learned some very useful stuff on ways to enable people to build resiliance. Have to say a big thanks to the Scottish Mentoring Network for organising the event

The training fitted in well with my new project which is about creativity and dyslexia. Training talked about how enabling a person to explore their talents and interests can enable them to become more resiliant. It enables a person to move away from just coping to being pro active.

Sombody mentioned that resliance like bouncing a ball one bounce back and then bounce forward. I recommend any dyslexic teacher / specialist should find out about this training and go for it.

I have been working with my web designers on the new project logo and have to say it looks great now. Very much as I had envisioned it The project itself is called Unique Dyslexic and I think the logo expresses that very well.

The basic idea behind the project is to enable dyslexic individuals to explore and develop their creativity and share it with the wider non dyslexic community. This can be in the form of artwork, photography, poetry, writing any artisitc medium. We are aiming to deliver a couple of master classes on various creative activites for dyslexics if Fife and we are particulalry seeking creative input from people in Fife. But anyone can send it their creative works grom anywhere in the world. . There is a lot more to this project than that though and I will talk more about it in later blogs. One of the main things i would like to do is to film it all if i can find the funding to do it.

Now all have to do is wait for the rest of the website to be built. I can say its going to be a very visual web site and its going to use mind maps to move around to the various sections of the site.

Lots of work to be done though. Promotional material has to be written, my lift pitch written, contacts with various organisations in Fife made, volunteers to be recruited, social media site stuff do be done and the list goes on lol.