The Liberated

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Hour long talks at 11.30 and 2.30 which will guide you through our artefacts that were found at liberation. On June 22, 1944, Soviet forces opened a major offensive that crushed the German forces defending the center of the eastern front in western Belorussia, sweeping the line of the front into central Poland by early August. Reconnaissance, including Special Air Service patrols and groups from 20th Armoured Brigade, had verified the camp’s presence. The truce was accepted, and on 12 April a 48-square-kilometre exclusion zone was placed around the camp, and the area declared neutral. No shots would be fired in its vicinity.

liberate somebody (from something) to free somebody from something that limits their control over and pleasure in their own lifeSurvivors had mixed reactions to their newfound freedom. While a few looked forward to being reunited with other family members, some felt guilty for surviving when so many of their relatives and friends had died. Some felt overwhelmed, as one survivor, Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist, expressed: Sometimes the Liberated Method is not required, and a series of transactions is enough. Robert wanted help with a housing support issue. He also wanted help accessing financial support with care for his mother. His family and community were active in his life. Using his debt as a signal, we were ready to deploy a caseworker to help him over time, but he didn’t need it. He managed the situation himself and he wasn’t worried about the debt as he was about to restart work. To foster the conditions in which the liberated people may exercise these rights, the three governments will jointly assist the people in any European liberated state or former Axis state in Europe where, in their judgment conditions require, If this is something services can’t do, they can instead work on creating the conditions for people to access their own capability to thrive. This will always be an experience unique to each individual based upon their own context. It requires any input from services to be bespoke-by-default and enabling rather than just intervening.

Was it right of the Allies, in postwar posters for instance, to suggest that the German population as a whole was to blame for the atrocities in the Nazi camps?But effective in doing what? No amount of liberation of things that exist within and between organisations counts as much as liberating peoples’ own internal capacity for change. Public services do not singularly transform lives and communities. What they can do is to support people by helping them to create the conditions to effect the changes they feel compelled to make. Remarkably, many Jewish intellectuals returned from emigration to what became East and West Germany after 1949. These included the philosophers Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Ernst Bloch, the writer Anna Seghers, and the composer Hanns Eisler. Slowly, the German-Jewish dialogue began over again. When you start with people and work outwards from them, things don’t look like services anymore. They look like things we would recognise when we go home (if we’re fortunate). They look like family, agency, community, relationships and understanding. They look like things humans are good at. Why did I visit Belsen? Given the opportunity I went because I know that in a few years’ time only, clever people will say, “Nonsense! Don’t you realise that was just wartime propaganda?” I shall know how to reply. And the more who do the better for the peace of the world.’ The Liberated Method is not a pathway with a condition and eligibility driven starting point. Anyone who needs support beyond the transactional can benefit from it, not just those in crisis.

Ms Megidish’s release is a significant victory for Mr Netanyahu, who is facing questions from Israelis and the international community about his decision to launch a ground invasion of Gaza while hostages remain trapped.We need to stop trying to improve services. If you start with services as your focus for change, you end up with services. People don’t want services, certainly not those that have a lot going on in their lives. People want support, relationships, practical help. People want to be understood. Intrinsically resourced – This is someone’s own choices, capacity and agency deployed by themselves with as much or little support as is required. It’s self-determination, community development and something that services can’t and shouldn’t try to do. Relational, strength based work and community development are well established and as such, our casework findings aren’t new. It’s important to understand that the Liberated Method doesn’t just operate at a casework level. To make this normal, leadership and governance has to be different (more focussed upon learning and enabling), method has to be different (using 2P5R and generally combining rules and principles rather than just using rules), scope has to be different, with relationships forming the scope rather than focussing upon navigating existing combinations of services (see image above), money has to flow differently to break the stalemate and ever allow prevention to truly happen, partnerships have to allow for caseworkers and specialists to believe each other’s information and be ‘pulled’ rather than referrals which require endless reassessment and masses of time and resources….