User:DavethePommieBrickie

b.1959 Leicester UK (English East Midlands)

Immigrant in +schooled India 1966-71, 72-75, 77-78; schooled England 1964-65, 1971-72, 75-77, Nottingham University 78-79: economic history, sociology, phenomenology, philosophy, theology

1980 onwards: Manchester Oldham Tameside +Isle of Wight colleges (music, business, faetc teacher training)

Acorn healing trust (listening)

Citizens UK (organiser training)

Formal +informal apprentice work posts in;

Local government accounts

Youth +community services: Residential - schools, YMCA Non-residential - LEA (Oldham ILEA) +Voluntary, drama counselling, Housing, credit-unions Community/peoples organisations Coalition-building Community cohesion training

Garden +Grounds maintenance Entertainment singer Business software industry Expert patient research

Areas of interest: - Social science, language, arts, humanities, business, practical science - paradox and perspective difference - tension polarity on continuum lines - lived experience in multiple centre/periphery situations - Interfaces and the Other

Parents: first UK post-1944 Butler Education Act generation: science education, national service (RAF radar - father), then local and overseas ngo workers; hence nomad family life and very early training

Outdoor present moment breather, musician, singer, story-teller, cook, ngo volunteer

Exile of multiple moves and now UK resident of English midlands and south.

Trained to be nomadic Irish-Anglian then Indian then British

Since 2015 slowly less clueless as to where + when to consult unfamiliar Autistic maps Leaning into more being restful Occupation voluntary alongside people and locations more familiar while convalescing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (developmental)

Occasionally now Patient