‘How to Catch Ageism’ Series – No 1: Language' - Resources
Resources from our 'How to Catch Ageism’ Series – No 1: Language' workshop
Delivered in partnership with the Flourishing Lives Advisory Group (FLAG), Dave Martin and Hannah McDowall of Canopy, the workshop explored the effect that ageist language and attitudes can have on our ability to live joyfully and honestly in our ageing skin, and discussed how we can feed the good ‘anti-ageism bacteria’ with words that nourish.
Here are the resources that were shared during the session, with kind permission from Dave Martin and Hannah McDowall:
- ‘How to Catch Ageism – session 1 – Language’ – presentation slides.
- Miro map – Mapping moments in which ageist language arises within our ear shot or eyeline.
- The sound sources used during the session:
- Tom Lehrer – ‘When You Are Old and Gray’.
- Sophie Tucker – ‘Life Begins at Forty’.
- Reverse Aging Process | Anti-Aging Music Therapy | Cell Tissue Regeneration, Binaural Beats.
Huge thanks again to Dave Martin and Hannah McDowall from Canopy for sharing their knowledge and expertise, and for all of their invaluable help in delivering the workshop. We are also very grateful to the members of our Flourishing Lives Advisory Group (FLAG) for all of their help in bringing the session together.
About Dave Martin and Hannah McDowall:
Since 2013 Dave and Hannah have worked to create experiences, artworks and coalitions, which help us to disrupt current approaches to ageing. These ‘disruptions’ fall into 3 broad themes:
1. Life course thinking and intergenerational connectivity
2. Transitions thinking not Age thinking
3. Exposing the ageist attitudes we hold against ourselves and others
Canopy is a not for profit organisation who work with communities, organisations and ecosystems to design and facilitate collective imagination projects which nurture belonging, courage and hope.
Canopy was set up to grow the social imagination. We believe that without new and shared imaginations our society will stay stuck in its current destructive and unequal patterns. We know that all of us are deeply imaginative, but society is not set up to support us to imagine together. The result is that we’re always building the future based on imaginations that are incomplete, one-sided and disconnected. This is what we seek to change. We seek to create the conditions for new shared imagining, new stories and new action for a better world.