Feel free to forward to your own local or national media and to your relevant best contacts this press release that ebbf has just sent out to world media. And if you want to interact around these and other relevant principles for your work, there are still some places available at the ebbf annual conference, an opportunity to meet an international group of like-minded leaders and peers: http://makeitmeaningful.org THE VALUE OF VALUES A statement from EBBF (www.dev.ebbf.world)

I have been in some amazing conferences. Others have made me groan inside. I have plain escaped some more. Looking back at what has made a conference memorable, out of the hundreds I have attended, I realise the speakers count. An amazing speaker can make the whole thing worthwhile. But worthwhile is not the same as memorably good. The participants help. I have been to conferences where I guiltily skip rather uninteresting plenaries to have an amazing conversation with a coll

When I think about diversity, I don’t think about colour, gender or ethnicity first. I think about my beautiful daughters. My youngest has moderate deafness, and upon being told, most family members were distraught and anxious. I wasn’t. For me it was a gift. A mysterious and challenging one, to be sure, but a gift that opened up aspects of human experience and the capacity to communicate with a part of our own humanity, that others might miss out on or find harder to tap int