Yesterday, to the surprise of some, to the delight of others, I suggested I was looking ahead into 2011 with some optimisim. "Positiveness" might have been a better word but that's a small point.
I ended more-or-less by suggesting that "people like me who are charged with the task [of serving children with disabilities and their families] need to be focusing, not on 'the cuts' but ... creating and uncovering the opportunities and the ways through".
GIGO, "Garbage In Garbage Out", to computer geeks means that, regardless of the correctness of the logic built into the programme, no output ("answer") will be valid if the input ("question") is erroneous.
Already we at Paces - like you possibly - are receiving notifications of conferences/workshops offering to upskill us in the essentials of negotiating/managing/surviving 'the cuts': how to reduce budgets, downsize staff and so on.
For Paces, and maybe for your organisation too, this is the wrong question.
The right question for Paces is something like: how, in a time of evident financial constraint, do we nevertheless continue to expand our service and to promote conductive education?
This is a very different question indeed. Very different. Requiring a quite different mind-set.
Whoever said it would be easy? But we can at least begin with the right question.
