Connection Coalition event – How to create solid relationships
Tuesday 20 Feb 2024 at 9:45am to 1.00pm @Osmani Trust 58 Underwood Road, London E1 5AW
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This event will focus on how to build a relationship centered practice, which you can put into effect in your projects and programmes on social isolation on loneliness. Th event will be led by David Robinson OBE, our guest speaker (details below) and will be followed by an update on our social connection campaign for residents in Tower Hamlets, Just Say Hello, highlighting examples of how local stakeholders have taken part and how you can join in. The event will also focus on the local social isolation and loneliness offer in Tower Hamlets, how you can collaborate and tap in new, free initiatives bringing communities together.
There will also be a space at the end of the event for participants to take to the stage and share new work they would like to publicise to colleagues.
We invite attendees to bring along leaflets and materials to share, there will be a table where to display your information.
Guest speaker: David Robinson
David Robinson founded and co leads the Relationships Project – https://relationshipsproject.org. He is a community development worker who has worked on social innovation for almost fifty years, founding and leading several organisations including Shift– using behavioural insight and award winning design to tackle social problems, the Children’s Discovery Centre- working on literacy and language and the multipurpose Community Links.
David led the Prime Ministers Council on Social Action from 2007 to 2010 and chaired the National Early Action Task Force from 2010 to 2016. He was the inaugural Practitioner in Residence at the LSE’s Marshall Institute, holds an honorary doctorate from the Open University and is an Ashoka Senior Fellow, once described by the Guardian as “the godfather of the community sector, equally admired on the left and right”.
Programme
Doors open: 9:40 am
9.40am-9.55am / Arrivals- tea and coffee
9.55am-10am / Welcome from Natalia Clifford, Associate Director for Public Health
10am-10.10am / Ice breaker
10.10am- 10.40am / Workshop on relationship-centered practice led by David Robinson
- Relationship centered-practice
- Relationship with service users and between service users
- How to look after your own wellbeing
10.40am-10.50am / Feedback- open to the room for reflexions
10.50am-11.10am / Comfort break
11.10am-12pm / Just Say Hello Tower Hamlets campaign- helping residents connect
- What it is- how you can take part
- How others have taken part: Mind TH, Neighbours in Poplar, Globe community project-(all tbc) Just Say Hello update and how others can collaborate with their work more broadly
- What you can do
12pm -12.20pm / New social isolation, loneliness and connection offer in Tower Hamlets
Resources and initiatives you can link up with:
- Directory
- Family hubs
- UCL engagement unit (tbc)
- 5 min open mic for delegates wanting to share with everyone a new service, idea, ask for help and advice on the theme of loneliness and social isolation
12.20 pm- 12.30pm / Feedback
- feedback form, ideas for next event, feedback on directory
12.30-1.00pm / Sandwich lunch buffet
Please register your attendance on Eventbrite
