Join in the fun and do the Big Fish Little Fish dance now!
The Little Fish will tell it how it is!
The importance of wellbeing for children in and from alternative care was representative of Big Fish looking after the Little Fish; a Big is someone responsible for guiding Little fish towards wellbeing and reaching their full potential. What adults, professionals, organisations or agencies are responsible for the wellbeing of children from alternative care? What does that responsibility look like? What resources support this relationship between young people and the adults around them? Is a Cardboard Box strong enough for all the resources so Big Fish can care for Little Fish.
This plenary pointed out some of the experiences and insights of Power4Youth members into identifying factors of their own wellbeing. It linked the theory of wellbeing and indicators of success to direct experiences of young people in and out from alternative care and explored if wellbeing can, is, or will be met by the Big Fish. As a European platform for young people, Power4Youth aims to offer a European perspective on young people in and from care. Power4Youth hopes to inspire the Big Fish to properly use their Cardboard Box to care for all the Little Fish. The plenary speech was delivered by Hava Ryustem from Bulgaria and Bernard Grima from Malta – youth cofounders and members of Power4Youth.
The presentation ended up with the Big Fish, Little Fish and the Cardboard Box dance. How anybody can stand still when the Big Fish Little Fish song is playing? Together with over 300 delegates from 25 countries across 4 continents we made the theatre go crazy. Brilliant!
Thanks IFCO for such an amazing opportunity.
For those of you who want to view the presentation, kindly refer to this link: IFCO Brighton Conference July 2010
To celebrate the success in Brighton, we should run a competition to find the best performer of the BIG FISH LITTLE FISH dance next year in British Columbia Canada for the next IFCO conference!
Never heard of the Big Fish, Little Fish and the Cardboard Box dance? If not you should ask IFCO members and all delegates from 24 countries across 4 continents whom where present for IFCO Brighton Conference in July 2010. I must tell you that no matter what role they had during the conference or which organisation they were representing, the entire crowd was raving mad with this dance! The moves are quite simple but when linked together they become a little bit confusing. Here we go: Big fish, little fish means you hold your hands out in front of you as though you were a fisherman demonstrating the size of a fish. Big fish (hands far apart) and little fish (hands closer together). Cardboard box is then moving your hands to a position as though you were supporting a box underneath with one hand, and had another hand on its lid. Have you got it now? Brilliant! So join us in and do the Big Fish, Little Fish dance NOW!