The public dimensions of mental illness

This speech was delivered by Amanda Tattersall to Citizen UK’s Guild of Organisers on 5 January 2022.

I first discovered community organising through books in the early 2000s. Which is a little unusual because organising is before all else experiential, not cerebral. But in Australia it didn’t exist. While I had spent years trying to make social change through social movements and organisations, this new way of working came to life through the work of Saul Alinsky.