Dr Tracey Harrington 💙educator & lifelong learner @tharry

#LetAfghanGirlsLearn #EndGenderApartheid

Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both. Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.

"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine." On International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict we share the words of peace laureate Nadia Murad – the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others.

🎬: Sheldon and Missy undergoing IQ test 😂🍿

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🎬: Young Sheldon clips 🔥🍿

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History shows schemes of violence and oppression, of power and domination, of gains made without justice and without scruples. They backfire against those who suffer because of them and also against those who pursue them. Let us pray to Jesus, the Lord of peace, and let us appeal to people’s consciences so that they may be moved by indignation. May respect for humanity and a proper sense of civility be restored! vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

I would like to appeal once again for reflection on the consequences of war and for their prevention through wise and responsible decision making, for this is not the result of an inevitable fate, but of free choices and, therefore, of morally accountable actions.

Children vaccinated for HPV have close to zero risk of dying from cervical cancer before age 30, study suggests Read more 🔗 trib.al/VHusBmd

No cervical cancer deaths in women who had HPV vaccine ZERO Its an amazing vaccine that PREVENTS CANCER RFK Jr hates it. Doesn't want you to get it. Would rather you or your daughter got cancer than a vaccine Strange man

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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine bbc.in/4ovjOLq

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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine bbc.in/4ovjOLq

Afghan women, girls, journalists, human rights activists, and other nationalities are singing and protesting worldwide for work, education, freedom, and an end to gender apartheid in Afghanistan and called on EU and UN stop normalizing engagement with Taliban.

🔴 Day 1,733 of Afghan women being excluded from public life. Millions of Afghan girls are still banned from attending school as part of the Taliban's crackdown on female rights. This lost generation of talent and potential could have brought peace and prosperity to the country. You are not forgotten. #Afghanistan #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

To everyone who helped bring the Obama Presidential Center to life, thank you. Michelle and I are so grateful for all your dedication and hard work over the years. I got a little teary-eyed tonight thinking about my mother-in-law, Marian Robinson.

To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.

Clinical updates: Assessment and management of suicidal ideation in adults bmj.com/content/393/bm…

Inviting Taliban officials to Brussels to discuss a migration deal sends a dangerous message that a regime can systematically oppress Afghan women and girls and still be welcomed as a diplomatic partner. This is the same regime that, last week, detained at least thirty women and girls in Herat for how they were dressed, opened fire on the people who protested their arrest, killed a child and injured others.  The Taliban’s system of gender apartheid has erased women’s and girls from public life — banning them from schools and work, severely restricting their freedom of movement and forcing them into marriage. Europe should not be considering deals with a regime responsible for one of the worst human rights crises in the world. rferl.org/a/eu-taliban-m…

🚨 Day 1,731 of Afghan women being isolated from the rest of society. When millions of girls are denied access to an education, inequality thrives. Education protects futures. You are not forgotten. #Afghanistan #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

I wouldn’t be where I am today without the love and support that @MichelleObama has poured into me over the years. Her story — from her South Side roots to the White House and beyond — is a central part of the Obama Presidential Center.

Afghan women gathered in front of the @UN office in Tehran, chanting: “Stop gender apartheid in Afghanistan” and “No to Taliban.”

Horrifying scenes in Afghanistan - the Taliban opened fire at a protest against the arrest of women for dress code violations. Footage shows shots being fired and men beating protesters in the city of Herat. Two people were reportedly killed at the protest but Taliban police in Herat denied there were any deaths. #afghanistan #herat #protest #afghanwomen #skynews

If we want change to be systemic, we need to engage people across multiple levels, from influencing and involving many, to co-creating with some. The "Engagement Staircase" from Russ Gaskin (CoCreative) and Akash Bhalerao (Ashoka) is a really helpful, research-informed framework for thinking about who we need to engage and how. Their core premise is that engagement is not a single act. It exists on a spectrum of levels, from communicating to many, through consulting, involving, and collaborating, to co-creating with a smaller core. Each step represents a progressively deeper level of stakeholder participation, ownership and shared power. In health and care, that tends to mean a lot of communication and consultation, and not enough collaboration and co-creation. We often inform people about change. We ask for their views. We call it engagement. But informing is the bottom step of the staircase, and consulting, however well-designed, still positions the leader as the one who decides. Working at higher levels of engagement requires a different kind of change leadership capacity. Co-creation is likely to mean relinquishing control over outcomes. Collaboration requires an ongoing investment in relationships, not just in on-off tasks. Most change leadership development is better at building lower-level engagement skills than upper-level ones. In our sector, there is a big push towards “co-production” or “co-creation” which is a positive thing. However, It is also problematic to think that we need to co-create with a lot of people. The higher up the staircase, the fewer people are involved, and that's by design. We communicate to many; we co-create with some. We have to be intentional about this distribution. The risk is trying to get everyone to the top step, or, just as problematic, keeping everyone at the bottom. Both are strategic errors. We should seek to work across all five levels simultaneously. It’s about holding large-scale awareness and influence across a wide network while nurturing a smaller network of co-creators who are deeply invested in the work. This requires thinking about engagement like a portfolio, mapping who needs to be where on the staircase, and actively managing upward movement over time. There is also an equity dimension. Who gets invited to collaborate and co-create? In too many change initiatives, the higher levels of engagement get reserved for those who already hold formal power or existing relationships with the change leader. Creating the conditions for systemic change means actively seeking out people whose experience is closest to the problem, even when that requires bridging structural divides. We might treat the Engagement Staircase as a mirror - reflecting on which levels we are working at, with whom, and what it would take to move the right people to higher levels of ownership of the change. The article: lnkd.in/eaDX8z5p. It has links to some great resources.