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Every ETAT plus workshop has its own character, its own personalities contributing to an ecosystem of learning. Some are wild and chaotic, with facilitators and participants changing at the last minute and technical challenges. Others feel smoother and more planned. Some have involved 8 hour journeys over bumpy roads, others end with cheeseburgers and vimto on the beach.   Since June 2019, the ETAT plus train has been trundling around Liberian hospitals picking up facilitator

Every day we are surrounded by the language of give and take, seeking something back for every positive action we take.   What’s in it for me? I’ll do something for you if you do something for me. What can this program give to me? How can I use this to get up to a higher level?   There is a temptation to view every part of our lives as simply give and take, transactional. Working an angle to try to get something back.   There is a different way. Since coming back from Liberia

What were your hopes Mummy? When I was growing inside you, a little secret surprise? A dot lovingly knitted together to become uniquely me, tiny fingers and toes poking outwards hopefully.   Where did you think I would end up? Maybe I could have giggled as you dressed me up for my first little walk. Or maybe I would have laughed as you tickled me for the first time. Or maybe you thought about the first time you would get to feed me and we would have that mom and baby bond. In

See Grandma, Go see Grandad, Visit mad Uncle John, crazy Aunt Maud. See Santa, see the nativity, Get to the shops, see the lights, See the tree growing, the children even more grown, See the New Year land safely.   Time to eat, time to rest. A time to drink, a time for every game. Time for presents, time for surprises. Time to forget the troubles, Time to be whoever you can be.   I’d love to see a Christmas time.   I’m just 10 months old, you see. Here I am in Liberia, on the