From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World

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The intensity, duration and type of recovery support people require at different stages differs between individuals (Best and others, 2019). In From Lived Experience to the Written Word , Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople began to write down their making practices. Rather than simply passing along knowledge in the workshop, these literate artisans chose to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs, and recipe books, sparking early technical writing and laying the groundwork for how we think about scientific knowledge today.

The blue dotted line in figure 2 shows how both specialist and non-specialist services should be embedded within communities that have many of the factors that enable recovery and that where these are community resources they should be supported to thrive. In an effective ROSC, system partners work together to ensure that there are multiple ways for a person to engage or re-engage with support and improve their health, wellbeing and social functioning. The role of peer support How peer support helps have access to a range of community resources that can help their recovery (including outside spaces, community centres and workplaces) Recovery has a positive effect on individual people and those closest to them. It also has a positive impact on society. A UK survey of addiction recovery experiences found this includes reduced pressures on health, social and justice services and improved productivity (Best and others, 2015). Recovery is not only about stopping problematic behaviour, it’s also about wellbeing and making a positive contribution to society. For example, the survey found that people in recovery are twice as likely to volunteer as other members of the public. Some recent peer support research has focused on harm reduction, widening access to opioid substitution treatment and digital innovations. This has been largely driven by the opioid crisis in North America and the need to find effective ways to reduce harm and prevent death. This research has focused on peer support roles that:provide a range of responsive and inclusive support and opportunities for people in recovery and their families offer choice by providing a flexible and inclusive menu of services, community support and opportunities, including lived experience initiatives, recognising that there are many pathways to recovery The existing guidance shows why local areas should focus on lived experience initiatives and recovery support services. Until now the guidance about these issues has been disparate and there has been a need for a comprehensive set of guidance in one place. So, this guidance aims to provide that. Each of the overlapping parts of these circles provide a simple description of some of the main interventions that can be delivered by 2 or more of these service types. Where 2 circles intersect, we list the core interventions delivered by both services. treatment services support people to stabilise and reduce their alcohol and drug use and promote recovery

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How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge. In From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World (U Chicago Press, 2022), Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople began to write down their making practices. Rather than simply passing along knowledge in the workshop, these literate artisans chose to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs, and recipe books, sparking early technical writing and laying the groundwork for how we think about scientific knowledge today. Focusing on metalworking from 1400-1800 CE, Smith looks at the nature of craft knowledge and skill, studying present-day and historical practices, objects, recipes, and artisanal manuals. From these sources, she considers how we can reconstruct centuries of largely lost knowledge. In doing so, she aims not only to unearth the techniques, material processes, and embodied experience of the past but also to gain insight into the lifeworld of artisans and their understandings of matter. Please visit MS FR 640 at The Making and Knowing Project. Where people are currently affected by their own or a family member’s problem alcohol or drug use, we describe this as living experience. Where people and families are in recovery from problem alcohol or drug use, we describe this as lived experience. This is distinct from learned experience, which people can get through studying, practicing or exposure. People can, and typically do, have a mixture of both living or lived experience and learned experience. Supporting people in recovery Recovering from problem alcohol and drug use

The juxtaposition of trade taxonomies and the supernatural had its roots in earlier works. The Luttrell Psalter, made in England around 1330, contains a sequence of marginal illustrations showing agricultural activities through the year. These images surround and even gloss the words of Psalm 96, among them: ‘Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them.’ They draw on the Labours of the Months, a pictorial cycle found in manuscripts, sculpture and wall paintings from across medieval Europe, that connects the work of humans in the fields with the passing of the seasons and the movement of the stars. Placing human invention and activity in relation to nature, they lead the viewer towards the divine. The field of medieval studies offers a few useful terms. One is ‘orthopraxis’ (practice according to a rule or tradition, in the sense of ‘making straight’), thought to have been coined by Raimon Pannikar and used by Paul Gehl and Mary Carruthers in their studies of monasticism. In her book The Craft of Thought (1998), Carruthers writes: ‘Any craft develops an orthopraxis, a craft “knowledge” which is learned, and indeed can only be learned, by the painstaking practical imitation and complete familiarisation of exemplary masters’ techniques and experience. Most of this knowledge cannot be set down in words; it must be learned by practising, over and over again.’ Binski enlists the classics: ‘When it comes to making something, the matter to hand is always shaped by hard knowledge (‘episteme’, Latin ‘scientia’), talent (‘empeiria’) and method (‘techne’ or ‘ars’).’ The most subtle of these, scientia, he defines as knowledge of the ‘whys’ of method, a more complex form of comprehension than the ‘hows’. refer people from emergency departments into specialist treatment after a non-fatal overdose and offer continued support and harm reduction interventions like naloxone (Ashford and others, 2019)

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Rather than focusing on alcohol and drug use or treatment outcomes, peer-led initiatives focus on supporting personal growth. This includes: National Drug Treatment Monitoring System business definitions for core data set Q define the recovery support interventions provided while someone is in treatment as: