WPA/IACAPAP Global Curriculum Survey

Dear Neil et al.,

Would it be possible to recirculate this invitation to complete this ~5minute survey.

We recevied a good response (~200 with 72% expressing interest to join future steps) from the last round but we could have had more representation from Oceana, the Carribean, the Mediteranean, Central Asia, Russia, and perhaps more from any areas as emphasized in line 3 below.

Thank you in advance for your consideration, David
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Dear Colleagues, Families, Relatives, Young Adults, Adults, and Friends!

Anyone affected or who knows someone who is affect by a mental health problem.

We need your help, especially from those living in remote urban or rural areas, or otherwise underserved regions anywhere in this wide world!

HELP US DESIGN A GLOBAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH, PSYCHIATRY AND ALLIED PROFESSIONS TRAINING CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK IN SUPPORT OF LOCALLY INTEGRATED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY-CENTERED EDUCATION AND ACTION.

The International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP)

and

The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Child and Adolescent Section are developing the Global Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health Training curriculum FRAMEWORK.

To complete a short DESIGN feedback and ENGAGEMENT survey (~5 Minutes)

Click or Copy and Paste the following URL: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/x4MyX0MkYt

Here is A SHORT INFORMATIONAL VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NdMRqb1LVVM

 

HIFA profile: David Cawthorpe is Adjunct Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences; Adjunct Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; and Child Health & Wellness Researcher, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Canada. 
https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/david-cawthorpe cawthordATucalgary.ca

My source: HIFA.

Yuki Kihara: Darwin in Paradise Camp - The Whitworth, Manchester

3 October 2025 – 1 March 2026

'A visually stunning exhibition centring Indigenous, queer worlds by Japanese-Sāmoan artist Yuki Kihara.

The Whitworth is proud to present Yuki Kihara’s acclaimed installation Paradise Camp (2022), first presented at the Aotearoa New Zealand Pavilion in the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, and a new video work, Darwin Drag (2025).

Kihara delves into art histories and archives to unpick the effects of colonialism on the peoples and ecologies of the Pacific. Her visually compelling projects centre and empower the Fa’afafine and Fa’atama in Sāmoa, traditional yet marginalised third gender communities to which the artist belongs. In this exhibition, Kihara focuses on two celebrated Western figures – French modernist artist Paul Gauguin and evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) – who each shaped Western understandings of the Pacific.

Paradise Camp responds to famous paintings of Tahiti and its people by French modernist artist Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). Through archival research, Kihara links Gauguin’s paintings to colonial photographs taken in Sāmoa. Described by Kihara as an act of 'upcycling', she recreates Gauguin’s compositions in a series of 12 resplendent high definition photographs, shot on location in Upolu Island. Collaborating with Fa’afafine models and production crew, Kihara repurposes these cultural artefacts to speak to, and from, queer Indigenous worlds in a profound gesture of reclamation.'

My source:

Josh Lustig. Yuki Kihara, Gallery, FT Magazine, November 22, 2025, #1152. pp.12-13.

Global South - Global Perspectives

As mentioned before, I try to keep grounded, in terms of my parochial perspective on the world, even as technology brings this world, and many others to so many screens.

 BBC Radio 4 'PM' 1700-1800 UT today mentioned this news and an event to follow:

Mākereti "Maggie" Papakura was an internationally renowned Whakarewarewa guide.

• 'Oxford University will award a posthumous Master of Philosophy degree to pioneering Māori scholar Mākereti Papakura.
• Papakura, known as Guide Maggie, was the first indigenous woman to study at Oxford.
• Her work, published posthumously, was the first ethnographic study by a Māori author.

Pioneering Maori scholar and famed Whakarewarewa guide Mākereti Papakura will be honoured with a posthumous degree more than 100 years after she began her studies, Oxford University has announced.

Her family and iwi say they are grateful for the tribute to her memory, and it is testament to her determination to ensure Māori stories would not be forgotten.

Born in 1873 at Matatā, Papakura is believed to be the first indigenous woman to study at the university, Oxford’s School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography said in a statement.

She made her name as the pre-eminent guide at Whakarewarewa in the early 1900s and was known as Guide Maggie'. . . .

...  I will watch for further news. 

The above stood out as last evening I greatly enjoyed listening to Discovery on the BBC World Service:

Unstoppable: Kura Paul-Burke

'Dr Julia Ravey and Dr Ella Hubber are both scientists, but it turns out there’s a lot they don’t know about the women that came before them. In Unstoppable, Julia and Ella tell each other the hidden, world-shaping stories of the scientists, engineers and innovators that they wish they’d known about when they were starting out in science. This week, a Māori marine scientist is combining indigenous knowledge with marine science to save the oceans that are so integral to her heritage. ...'

Image and text:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/te-arawas-makereti-papakura-to-receive-posthumous-degree-from-oxford-university/SBI3TR733RHZBOAS3BLDAZPMTU/

Previously: 'Oceania'

'Person & Sense of Place: A River runs through it.....'

Fragile: This way up - Frozen goods!

Apollo 17 'Blue Marble' Photograph

 

Apollo 17 1972 NASA Original Blue Marble Photograph

Or, some water 'heading your way' ...

'NASA’s archival designation for it is AS17-148-22727, and the original image was taken upside down with the South Pole at the top. In its myriad reproductions, it’s flipped up to match what we would normally expect to see.'

Text: https://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/12/09/behind-blue-marble/

Does the model still 'work' -

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Image source: https://www.forum-conquete-spatiale.fr/t15428-apollo-17-1972

Prompt for 'Blue Marble' - Plate 1 in Brotton, J. (2024) The Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction, London: Allen Lane.

Previously: 'compass'

A planet is not just for Christmas.

Point Nemo: 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W

The oceanic pole of inaccessibility

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	Point Nemo: 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W
Social care

Al-Othman, H. Notes from the remotest place on Earth: father and son voyage to Point Nemo. The Sunday Times, 31 March 2024. p.11.

https://brown.co.uk/expeditions/point-nemo

Image: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nemo.html

Re. 'Lagoonscapes' - previous post ...

It was the title of the journal in the previous post that caught my attention:

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	'Lagoonscapes' made me think of the periplus, used by ancient explorers - sailors to 'map' coastlines and their features. I also realised that people living with: more advanced stage dementias reduced mobility / balance partial sightedness stroke - may negotiate their immediate surroundings (living room ...) using 'furniture walking'. The first explorers did likewise by analogy?
Is a lagoon - a resting place/space - an offering of respite (care)? In 2018 the Oceania exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/oceania - highlighted knowledge of the peoples who could read the currents, winds - perhaps in as differentiated manner similar to the Inuit and their environment and cultural beliefs?

Previously 'landscape'

COP 28: The water runs deep and broad - Solastalgia for all?

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climate anxiety eco grief ... as yet unforeseen impacts ... [personal and collective]

Raise A Paddle © Fenton Lutunatabua / 350.org

Underwater Cabinet Meeting in the Maldives

political malaise? "'Solastalgia' was first coined by the philosopher Glenn Albrecht almost two decades ago; it is a blend of the Latin word "solacium" (comfort) and the Greek root "-algia" (pain or grief). Solastalgia, argued Albrecht, was a way to convey the idea of distress caused by irreversible environmental transformation. It is 'the homesickness we feel while still at home', he writes." Where exactly do politicians and capitalists 'live'?

Frankopan, P., How to avert an 'eco grief' epidemic, The Daily Telegraph, 12 August 2023, pp.6-7.

Maldives image c/o:
https://sos.noaa.gov/education/phenomenon-based-learning/underwater-cabinet-meeting/

Raise A Paddle c/o NMS:

https://media.nms.ac.uk/resources/raise-a-paddle-fenton-lutunatabua-350-org

Book: "Blue Machine"

How the Ocean Shapes Our World

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	Blue Machine

 

Czerski, H. (2023). Blue Machine. How the Ocean Shapes Our World. London: Penguin. Retrieved May 22, 2023, from https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/441190/blue-machine-by-czerski-helen/9781911709107

My source:
Whipple, T. (2023) The big blue machine: why the oceans rule the world, Saturday Review, The Times, 20 May. pp.16-17.

See also c/o APOD:

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Living on the Edge: 'Counting the Coast'

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COAST* C O A S T COAST	C O A S T COAST
COAST" C O A S T COAST	COST C O S T COST^

*Coast - a spiritual place - this 'home' where I imagine and dream - as our people have done for ages.

"Coast - where grandmother, grandfather and elders explain to me where the coast used to be ...

^cost - 'the bottom line'

 My source: BBC World Service, Business Report - COP26

Mention of the challenge for governments of island nations to persuade their peoples and communities to move from the coast, to be resettled and the ultimate prospect of whole islands / nations being lost, with the need for mass migration.

 

iFixit Medical Device Repair Database

Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested.

The iFixit Medical Device database, a new resource for Biomedical Technicians and Equipment Maintenance workers to access user manuals and repair documentation for the medical equipment in hospital and healthcare facilities has just been released.

https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Medical_Device

Please help distribute this announcement to Biomedical Technicians, Equipment Maintenance workers or anyone you think would be interested.

More information can be found at https://www.ifixit.com/News/41440/introducing-the-worlds-largest-medical-repair-database-free-for-everyone
and
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21263762/ifixit-medical-device-repair-database-launch

HIFA profile: Arlene G Cohen is a retired Associate Professor of Library Science, based in the USA, having worked at the University of Guam Library for 18 years. She has a particular interest in the information needs of medical and allied health professionals in the Pacific region. She runs the "Pacific Islands Regional Medical Distribution List," a current awareness service open to anyone in the world. arlenegcohen AT gmail.com

My source:

HIFA: Healthcare Information For All: www.hifa.org

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	Repairs Database Devices - Maintenance Sustainability imaging clinical equipment  laboratory surgery medical support imaging medical furniture ...