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Rachael and I hope you enjoy our Halloween Special in which we explore whether creativity and innovation in health care and beyond needs to be .... SCARY!

Lots of lemon lightbulbs! 🍋💡🍋
See 'chapter headings' for more detail and to pick out your favourite bits,  including:

1. Ghosts – don’t be scared by the ghosts of past failures, things that haven’t gone well. No two set of circumstances are the same. Perhaps last time it was just a case of your timing not being right. If you believe in your idea or product, keep going.
2. Halloween Costumes – why do people choose different costumes? The world would be boring if everyone came dressed for Halloween in the same costume. Variety and different perspectives are good. Try on someone else’s costume, walk a while in it to understand why they might be scared of a creative challenge, innovation or change. Example from the Wong household – the grim reaper and the pumpkin!
3. Trick or Treat – start by knocking on the doors that have a pumpkin outside, work with people who are willing, then hopefully the curtains will start twitching and more people will join in when they see it isn’t that threatening.
4. Dragons, Wizards & Wands – adaptations, adding new things, rolling with an idea and seeing where it goes. There are no rules. We’ve added Harry Potter & Game of Thrones to Halloween – keep innovating! Example of Parmo to the Rescue book.
5. Terror – what’s the point of Halloween? Why do we do it? For most people Halloween is just an opportunity to get together with family & friends, neighbourhoods & communities. It’s not actually terrifying at all when you look closely – it’s a means to an end, just like innovation and change! Focus on the endgame, the outcome rather than the process.

Resources and links:

Parmo to the rescue: https://www.drakethebookshop.co.uk/product/parmo-to-the-rescue/

Rachael talks about Parmo in our pandemic best practice advent video series: https://twitter.com/mrswongwrites/status/1447183915412824065?s=21

Media: https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/18892481.parmo-rescue-book-written-help-children/

Magic mates : https://www.buzzsprout.com/961453/8993457

The FUNdamentals of change: https://steller.co/s/the-fundamentals-of-5BudJkGD2cN

Nobody’s Patient Steller stories for NHS England: https://steller.co/c/6bYrntnVqD9

Room on the Zoom: https://twitter.com/mrswongwrites/status/1447183915412824065?s=21

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