Being more: Confederation of School Trusts’ CEO Summit speech transcript
On the 14th July 2026, David Robinson delivered a speech at the Confederation of School Trusts’ CEO Summit. This is a transcript of the speech.
Learning out loud in relationship-centred practice: Changing our permissions
In brief What dictates our social behaviour, and how do these conditions come about? In this month’s Learning Out Loud blog, we return to the Relational Funders cohort and the idea of permissions. Specifically, how norms, assumptions and rules shape how we behave. In...
Stronger Things 2026: Keynote Address Transcript
In brief David Robinson’s keynote address as delivered at the Stronger Things conference on 17th June 2026. Fifty two years ago this week a bunch of us at school together bought an old double decker bus. We sold the seats, bought some games, recruited volunteer...
Stronger Things 2026: Preview
In brief New Local kindly asked David Robinson, Co-Lead of the Relationships Project, to speak at their Stronger Things conference on 17th June. There’s so many things we’d like to say to this wide and vital audience and so few words. Here’s a...
Learning out loud in relationship-centred practice: Relational offsetting
In brief In this month’s Learning Out Loud blog, we’re reflecting on the latest session of our Relational Funders cohort and exploring the idea of relational offsetting, or, in other words, how we might reduce or remove relationships in one area, in order to deepen...
