Building global citizenship through network leadership

Abstract

IntroductionWe are a new generation of service users and consumers who recognise our power and strength: a generation recognising our distress, a generation that is unifying and coming up with new ways to recover from problems that previously seemed unsolvable. Our actual experience of recovery becomes the source of our group's leadership. To nurture the emergence of our leadership, we have had to develop our own structure. We have found that networking is the best way for us to develop our leadership capacity. We formed our group in August 2007 at the IIMHL conference. We named our group Interrelate to emphasise the principles of equality, respect and mutual learning upon which we are founded. The mission statement of Interrelate is: