From Grace Cook

Grace and Gemma

It was an absolute pleasure to attend Gemma Stacey’s inaugural lecture at NTU last night.

Reframing and reclaiming resilience for a sustainable healthcare system – thinking about resilience not just as an individual responsibility but a system wide one.

Gemma shared the journey of her career, always filled with curiosity and a desire to make a difference, not always in a conventional way!

Resilience-based clinical supervision has been a massive part of that journey and we know organisations that actively support this enable the conditions for resilient communities and people.

We have been delighted at FoNS to take this forward, with leadership from Joanne Bosanquet and Theresa Shaw over the last 10 years.

Grace and Stacy Johnson

Thank you Gemma for bringing me on this journey. Firstly as a new student introducing me to clinical supervision and compassion focused therapy and then trusting me to bring my lived experience of being a student and early career nurse into developing this model … and everything that has happened since. It is a joy to know you and I am so proud!

It was also nice to connect with people, some old faces and some new!! Including Stacy Johnson MBE, a former The Foundation Of Nursing Studies Trustee and Fiona Sheppard one of our Associate Facilitators. I also brought my Mum along who had a great time!