Speaker bios

Richard Amos

I have a significant interest in the Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise Sector, where I hold 5 trusteeships for charitable organisations, trusts and user led organisations that have causes about disability and community. These roles enable me to demonstrate my skills which are accustom to employment and allow me to tap into my interests, among many, of strategic thinking and contributing to the direction of travel.

I recognise the privileged position I am in as a disabled person and am in my happy place when I’m alongside people and communities enabling them to be empowered and able to raise their aspirations of what is possible, this has led me to become a member of several organisations including:

• West Midlands ADASS Regional Coproduction Advisory Network

• Think Local Act Personal (TLAP)’s National Coproduction Advisory Group and 

• National Voices as a Lived Experience Partner.

I am using the intelligence I have gained, though drawing on care and support from 3 different local authorities I have lived within, to be a trainer, delivering workshops on social care legislation and a contributor at various universities towards their schools of front line services supporting the next generation of workers.

Keymn Whervin

Keymn is the Co-Production Manager at National Voices. She co-leads work on improving mechanisms for patient engagement. She was a founding member for the Voices for Improvement Advisory Group, who support the Voices for Improvement design project aimed at developing stronger mechanisms for connecting and supporting people using services, unpaid carers, and families to be involved in improvement. This work will surface and connect current learning, practice, and people in this area across the UK and Ireland and co-develop ideas for convening and boosting impact.

Keymn devoted her life as a carer to support her mother Elsie who suffered a stroke. She cared for her mother over a 23-year period, but Elsie sadly passed away at the start of the pandemic in 2020.

In 2016 Keymn became Director of Peer Partnership CIC which supported people using services to take control and manage their own budgets for their care. Over time she has built up her experience in the sector which has enabled her to work for NHS England as a Lived Experience advisor with the Personalised Care Group and then move onto freelance work setting up, mentoring, and leading My Life Choices NHS strategic co production group in Nottinghamshire. She is also the regional Co-chair of West Midlands Association of Directors for Adult Social Services co production group.

Keymn’ s main passion is to support others with lived experience at a local and national level to implement and embed strategic co production for health and social care organisations.

Standard agenda (90 minutes)

1. Welcome and introductions (10 minutes)

2. Speaker for deep dive topic (35 minutes)

3. Break (5 minutes)

4. Peer mentoring (25 minutes)

5. Reflection and sharing (20 minutes)

Deep dive section

We will explore the below questions with Keymn Whervin and Richard Amos.

• What is the project doing? 

• What have you learned so far?

• What have you seen change as a result of the project?

You can submit additional questions when you register to attend. 

Time and date by location

North America

• Vancouver, Canada: Monday 11 March, 4.30am

• Toronto, Canada: Monday 11 March, 7.30am

• Washington D.C, USA: Monday 11 March, 7.30am

Europe

• Dublin, Ireland: Monday 11 March, 11.30am

• London, England: Monday 11 March, 11.30am

• Amsterdam, Netherlands: Monday 11 March, 12.30pm

• Stockholm, Sweden: Monday 11 March, 12.30pm

Pacific

• Perth, Australia: Monday 11 March, 7.30pm

• Sydney, Australia: Monday 11 March: 10.30pm

• Wellington, New Zealand: Tuesday 12 March, 12.30am (midnight)

Africa

• Johannesburg, South Africa: Monday 11 March, 1.30pm

South America

• Montevideo, Uruguay: Monday 11 March, 8.30am

Peer Mentoring section

We will have conversations in small groups. This is your chance to start building deeper connections with people all over the world who share your values and interest in topics related to Emerging Leadership. 

You will be in small breakout groups of 3 - 5 people. Each group might be a little bit different - that's ok! The important thing is sharing and connecting in a way that makes sense for you. 

Here's the basic structure we suggest:

1. Agree how will you monitor the time and make sure everyone gets a chance to talk. Do you want to pick one person to be time keeper or facilitator?

2. Start by building trust and letting people warm up with a check in question. Keep this short and sweet. We like:
   Highs and Lows: Ask everyone to think of their “high and low” – this is their favourite thing that happened recently, and least favourite thing that happened recently.
   Give everyone a chance to think, then share with the group. 

3. Discuss what was the most important or most interesting point from the speaker.
   Some questions that might help you start a discussion (don't try and answer all of these, this is just to help you start chatting):
   What did the speaker say that surprised you AND explain why?
   What do you  want to start doing because of  what the speaker said?
   What do you  want to stop doing because of  what the speaker said?

4. Share any goals or things you would like your peers to help you be accountable for doing. Try and spend most of your time talking about this.
   Some questions that might help you start a discussion (don't try and answer all of these, this is just to help you start chatting):
   What risks have you taken in life that you are really glad you took? What helped you take them?
   What are you guiding principles and truths? How do these help you in your leadership?
   In what situations do I hold back from speaking my truth? What can I do to feel more confident in these situations? 

You can talk about:

• Something important said in the deep dive topic.

• Something you are working on.

• Something you have learned.

• An idea you have.

• Ask for advice.

When we do peer mentoring we:

• Listen to each other

• Be patient

• Give advice or ideas

• Share your own experiences to help people learn

• Offer and accept constructive feedback 

• Encourage people to expand their comfort zone by trying new things

What peer-based mentoring is not

• A co-dependent relationship where other people are acting as therapists.

• A relationship where the mentors discipline the mentees.

• A senior person one-way downloading knowledge to a junior person.

• Someone to save your career or do things for you.