Share your #SpiritOfLockdown
In brief The Relationships Project and Local Area Coordination Network have teamed up to surface, share and celebrate stories of lockdown from all across the country. How have your relationships changed through Covid? What’s the Spirit you want to bottle to guide your...
Enrol Yourself: Heatmap in Action
Having collaborated with The Relationships Project to create the Heatmap tool, we were excited to try out the Heatmap tool ourselves, and see whether there are any levers we could pull on further to strengthen our approach to relationships.
Our plans for a Relational Practice Academy: Where we’ve got to
In David Robsinon’s LSE lecture in 2023, he talked about the idea of responding to the increasing demand for knowledge about relationship-centred practice by developing a new training institution. We published a blog last autumn setting out more detail and invited...
How we live together
In brief “Working for social progress isn’t about waiting for all the stars to align; it’s about making change for ourselves, by the light that we have.” In this essay, David Robinson considers the state of relationships in 2020 and how to do better in the new...
The Art of the Covenant
In brief In this blog, Nick Sinclair and David Robinson explore the concept of a ‘social covenant’ discussed in Danny Kruger’s recent report, ‘Levelling Up Our Communities’, arguing it must be formed around values, trust, morality and...
Huddle-craft: The power of micro ‘learning communities’ or ‘Huddles’
In brief In this Joining the Dots blog, co-founder of Enrol Yourself and friend of The Relationships Project Zahra Davidson discusses the power of Huddles; small, non-hierarchical learning communities who support one another to grow and learn. Zahra Davidson Zahra...
Including the network perspective in a relationship-centred practice
In brief In this Joining the Dots blog, founder of the Reliants Project Erica Young argues for the importance of including a network perspective in relationship-centred thinking and practice. Citing some of the leading researchers in the field, she outlines how...
Is that it?
In brief In this blog, we explore the long tail damage of the pandemic and oscillating community activity, and we ask for your thoughts on the best role that we can play here at The Relationships Project. On 10/11, we’re convening a conversation to explore how...
