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Hi Daniel,
I came across Open Dialogue about 10 years ago (then met Jakko S in 2006), but had no means by which to spread the word, so to speak, until I came across and bought your DVD.
In the time till now my DVD (and, ahem, a few copies) must have been seen by literally hundreds of folks down this way in or near Bristol, UK, including service users, their families, and networks; students and trainees; colleagues, managers and the Chief Exec of our NHS Trust.
It has, on the whole, been received with overwhelming gratitude and admiration - both for the introduction of OD and for the film itself (psychiatric conference not so keen, mind!). It has helped inspire myself and dozens of others to peck away in campaigning to get something off the ground here in NHS land. I must have seen it 20 times and, consequently, meeting Markku Sutela at a very small OD conference in Helsinki felt like meeting my hero.
Today, I received 2 dozen applications for a Peer Worker post - the final piece of our local (South Gloucestershire) jigsaw to enable us to join the UK national POD (peer supported open dialogue - as per the NYC Parachute model) research project, which will have 7 or 8 \'spoke\' Trusts setting up small teams of OD practitioners to trial this approach in the UK (training to Dec \'16, research project to Dec \'17). We will now make it onto this fantastic project.
http://www.nelft.nhs.uk/aboutus-initiatives-opendialogue
I\'ve expended blood, sweat and tears to make it happen, but it simply wouldn\'t have stood a chance without your film as an approachable doorway into a different way of thinking, practising, relating - and hoping. I, and our nascent project (both as a local trial and as part of the national POD) owe you the most enormous debt of gratitude for this... and I wouldn\'t be surprised if your film has done the rounds in many of the other 7 or 8 participating Trusts too.
Daniel, I don\'t want to overplay the importance of what you\'ve given us - but I honestly don\'t think I can Thank You,
Stu Brooke
South Glos Crisis Team / Psychological Therapies