New Beginnings: Conference Booking Form

9am – 5pm, Friday 8th January 2010

Please fill in the details below and choose from the workshop options on the next page (include
your first and second choices of workshop for the morning and afternoon sessions). Once you have
completed this form, please send it back to Claire Speer: clairespeer@thereader.org.uk

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Morning Workshops
1. What is Reading?
Join Dr. Jane Davis, Director of The Reader
Organisation, to discuss the act of reading. What is
reading? What happens inside us when we read?
Why is it that reading aloud and shared reading is so
powerful?
2. Reading with Forensic Psychiatric Patients
Dr. David Fearnley, Dr. Celia Bell and Dr. Kathryn
Naylor facilitate a number of Reading groups at
Ashworth Hospital, part of Mersey Care NHS Trust;
a hospital which provides high secure services for
men who have committed serious offences, and who
have complicated and severe mental health problems.
Join them to find out how GIR groups work in
forensic services (mental health or prison).
3. Business and Funding
Susan Blishen, manager of „Right Here‟ and the first
person, whilst at the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, to
fund Get Into Reading, joins Chris Catterall, Business
Manager of The Reader Organisation, to answer your
questions about funding sources and application
writing for GIR projects.
4. Reading with Young People
In this workshop, four of our current young person
GIR project workers discuss the best way to
approach this type of reading. Join John Davis, Patrick
Fisher, Sophie Povey and Samantha Shipman to find
out the most effective ways to engage young people
in GIR groups, and the best books/poems to read
with a variety of age groups.
5. Commissioning Get Into Reading: NHS Wirral
Kathy Doran, Chief Executive of NHS Wirral, Dr.
Shyamal Mukherjee, and Kate McDonnell, Project
Manager for The Reader Organisation, discuss the
reasons why Wirral PCT commissioned the Get Into
Reading project.
Afternoon Workshops
1. Research: The MerseyBEAT Project
Dr. Josie Billington, Prof. Chris Dowrick, Dr. Andrew
Hamer, Dr. Jude Robinson and Dr. Clare Williams
talk about their current study into the benefits of
Get into Reading in relation to depression. The
research project is funded by MerseyBEAT, a
collaboration of University of Liverpool and
Liverpool Primary Care Trust, providing leadership in
applied health research in chronic illness.
2. Get Into Reading in Libraries
The role of the Get Into Reading project in public
libraries: how it fits with the social and learning
outcomes target, and with the new CILIP guidelines
for public libraries. Jane Mathieson (Regional Reader
Development Co-ordinator NW), will chair a
discussion with library staff already leading successful
Get Into Reading activity.
3. Get Into Reading in Mersey Care NHS Trust
Alan Yates, Chief Executive and Lindsey Dyer,
Director, Service Users and Carers discuss: “If you
want to know what lies behind the flat screen you
have to read a book”. Find out: why Mersey Care
was the first mental health Trust to „Get Into
Reading‟; how the Reader-in-Residence project
works; what a huge difference GIR has made; and
what the Chief Executive is currently reading with
people who like books and use mental health
services.
4. ‘Read to Live’: A Community Hub for GIR,
Monmouth Comprehensive School
Jane Davis joins Carole Herman, Head Teacher of
Monmouth Comprehensive School, for a discussion
of the proposed „Read to Live‟ project. Carole
discusses why developing a culture of shared reading
is so important in secondary schools, and how we
are able to take the project one step further:
inspiring pupils to lead their own groups in the wider
community.
5. GIR with People with Dementia
James Freeley, GIR facilitator in Durham, joins The
Reader Organisation‟s Katie Clark for a discussion of
how to approach reading with those who are
suffering from Dementia. This will cover the special
considerations that go into planning and delivering
GIR in this setting, including choice of material,
length of session, structure and working alongside
staff and carers.