Active Neighbours – Sarah
āI got involved because it was something I could do – it was only small but I could do it around work. All the small things add up. If we can just brighten up someone’s day.ā
#SolidaritySpaces
Working in relational ways is joyful, empowering, revolutionary. In putting relationships first we unlock our shared humanity, we bring love into unloving spaces, and we acheive things we couldn’t otherwise achieve. But working in relational ways can also be...
Fostering an ecology of perspectives
Weāre featuring a mini blog series, where in each piece, an Enrol Yourself Host reflects on their practice of building strong relationships, as a facilitator. In this blog, James Kite reflects on what we can learn from neurophysiology and companion planting when it comes to peer learning.
Revolution, from the group up
In brief As an election looms David Robinson reflects, in this very personal blog, on the stories ofĀ relationship centred-practitioners as told in our the Relationships Case Maker. Faraway from Westminster and Whitehall, he says, the relationship-centred revolution is...
Sustaining the care: Learning from the Warm Hubs experience
What can we learn from the Warm Hubs experience about how to create ārelational spacesā? And how can this learning, combined with the learning from the community response to the covid pandemic, inform and inspire a bottom up, relationship centred approach to...
Supporting community businesses to become Relationships Makers
In brief Weāve partnered with Power to Change to support a cohort of community businesses to reflect on the power and potential of relationships and develop strategies for building successful businesses based on strong relationships. In this blog, we lay out our...
Developing the Framework: An update
In brief In July, we published ‘Developing the Framework’; an extended blog written by Tony Clements which lays out 10 ways in which local authorities can help community engagement to thrive. In this follow up blog, Tony reflects on the subsequent...
Making relationships the first mile
After a year of research into simple, ordinary, human relationships, Iona Lawrence shared her initialĀ findings in Through Thick And Thin.Ā In this report, she illuminated a set of shared concerns, identified through hundreds of conversations around the state of our...
The magic of finding my peers of relationship-centred practitioners
In brief On the 23rd November 2022, 80 relationship-centred practitioners came together at Northumbria University to unpack the how, what and why of relationship-centred practice. We shared some of our key takeaways in this letter and, here, FabianĀ PfortmĆ¼ller...
Active Neighbours – James
āNot patriotism, but I think society is under stress at the moment. I don’t think the government, whatever your view on this particular government, is necessarily capable of meeting all needs. So itās quite nice to have a purpose to do stuff when you can see an overwhelming need for it. So yes, a massive sense of fulfilment. And I think as Iād alluded to before that when Iād retired I felt I needed something to do. But itās been great because I’ve met more people in the neighbourhood, working in the kitchen Iāve met some great people – learned much more about food! So generally Iāve enjoyed both experiences a lot.ā
