I recently read an interesting paper that was recommended to me about the re-institutionalisation of people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people.

Belongingness: apparently is the ‘human need to be a member of a group’.  We all have different motivations and levels of desire to belong to a group.

One of the common ways that we label ourselves, is by the job we do, our professional status.

Putting people in boxes is a basic human instinct. It’s how we try to understand other people. We do it to ourselves, labels that we identify ourselves by.

At last, not wearing a suit or tie at work is cool! What exceptions would I make, a funeral maybe, getting my OBE? Probably! But not much else.

Overused phrase Number 4.
Yes, I understand the importance of people being central to everything that affects them.

Overused phrase Number 3.  Safe space  ‘intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations’, (Wikipedia).

‘Working in silos’.  (Overused phrase Number 2).  This is used as a criticism of how we work and we are urged to stop this.  ‘We need to stop working in silos!’  But wait…this isn’t new – working in silos has been levelled as a criticism for decades.