We welcomed two new people to the meeting. To help the new people, one of the group explained what we do at Our Voice Our Choice. We then introduced ourselves and we talked about what we had been up to. The meeting was about things we are proud of. To help us think about this […]
The meeting this month was about Healthy Living. Firstly, we caught up with everyone’s news after the summer break, swapping stories of our holidays, our work and all the fun things we’d been up to. We had a quick reminder about the group rules including one about respecting our environment and the lovely building which […]
What we did in the Summer ‘I did a lot of Samba’ ‘I went on holiday to Portugal, drank pina colada and had a massage’ ‘I had a great summer visiting Scotland, Vietnam and Malaysia’ ‘I enjoyed visiting mum, dad and my sister. We went on walks with the dog.’ ‘I loved going to Bali […]
We had a great meeting in London last weekend. 21 Down2Eearth members came and we welcomed some new volunteers. We talked with each other about what helps us to be healthy. We thought about our Annual Health Checks. Some of us think we are not included in the discussion with our doctor as much as […]
The purpose of this month’s meeting was to talk about my rights and travelling. We had a nice catch up sharing stories about what members had been up too. Some members wanted to show their new hearing aids whilst others had been on nice holidays and trips. We had a quick reminder of our group […]
Speaking up After sharing our news, we had our first ‘speaking up ‘session. This is where one person tells the rest of the group about something they are interested in This time one of the group told us that he plays the drum in a Samba Band. He showed us some photos and a film […]
For our February Down2Earth meeting we started by introducing ourselves and sharing any news that we had. We introduced our new volunteer to the group called Lucy. We then quickly talked about the group rules before we started our activities. Today our topic was all about our communities and what community means to us. We […]
We caught up with each other’s news. We began by thinking about the word ‘Community’ – we decided it was a difficult word. So we thought about the groups and teams we belong to: ‘Work’ ‘Our Voice Our Choice’ ‘Circle of friends’ We decided ‘Community’ is about the people who are around us in our […]
We started with a catch-up session about what we had done at Christmas. Last year we helped with some research about making decisions. So we talked about what the research has found out and then we had a discussion about making decisions. Hard decisions ‘saying no or stopping something’ ‘to move home’ ‘about work and interviews’ ‘talk to […]
This weekend Down2Earth were back for another meeting, with 21 people with Down’s syndrome attending! We had lots of news to share and a new member to introduce, plus several birthdays to celebrate. The session was all about timekeeping – we talked about different ways that we can manage our time. Some people use a […]
