Episode 2 - Sally Zlotowitz

Listen to dialogue with the wonderful Sally Zlotowitz as she talks about her work with MAC-UK charity and Nesta, her activism role and her personal and professional identities. Sally describes how she brings community psychology values into her practice with examples from her work at MAC-UK with marginalised young people; the barriers resulting in distrust of statutory bodies and the redesign of services through co-production. She also shares examples of communities and groups that Nesta UK has supported to build social movements to challenge health inequalities. A helpful link: https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/healthmovers-tackling-inequalities/. Sally has now left Nesta, taking up a new post as CEO of Art Against Knives - Congrats Sally!

Sally discusses the influence of her sabbatical in South Africa, the issue of community wealth building and co-operatives and incorporating collective wellbeing into practice. She also considers the role of psychology post COVID-19 and speaks about Degrowth Economy - she recommends the work of @carolynkagan and @MarkBurton to learn more about this. Some interesting work, linked to this, can be found here: https://steadystatemanchester.net/about/

Sally contributes currently to BPS Official Community Resilience and Community Action Working Group, thinking about community level responses and intersectional, decolonised ways of supporting people. Links to work being done by the group here: https://bit.ly/38NSXFk and https://bit.ly/3bNKnIo. Details for their upcoming webinar is here: https://www.bps.org.uk/events/developing-community-resilience-and-social-justice-practices-young-people-covid-19-era.

Sally ends by talking about embedding community psychology values into practice, highlighting importance of working in partnership with others, support of like-minded people, needing to be a little disruptive and creating opportunities to consider services in a strategic way.