Category: connection

  • Listening to the voice of experience

    Listening to the voice of experience

    I was talking to a 13 year old and two 16 year olds about Adolescence (Netflix) yesterday. They were saying…

  • Why Listening Matters: The Cost of Unheard Voices

    Why Listening Matters: The Cost of Unheard Voices

    “You’re not always heard. You’re listened to, but you’re not heard.” Young person Across the UK, thousands of young people…

  • Bereavement support

    Bereavement support

    🤔 Can you think of something you did at work on recently which taught you something valuable that you can…

  • Working genius

    Working genius

    I’m an enabler and an inventor at heart. If you need ideas of how to do something, and if you…

  • Hierachy can kill…

    Hierachy can kill…

    🦁 Hierarchy can kill……the contribution, knowledge, experience, skill of those who don’t have the title, the status, the position to…

  • Funding, profile, and voice

    Funding, profile, and voice

    I’ve been interviewing CEOs of local charities recently and asking them: what are your biggest challenges to making progress, and…

  • Hear real experiences from Care Leavers

    Hear real experiences from Care Leavers

    If we are making decisions that affect other people, we really need to understand their experiences and the impact of…

  • Lived Experience…and the Feels

    Lived Experience…and the Feels

    What does it feel like? I’m currently working in a homelessness team – collaborating with people to do research into…

  • Bringing in the Experts

    Bringing in the Experts

    🔗 Research and Practice. The best research projects I’ve been involved in have been when the practitioners and those with…

  • Positive Uncertainty

    Positive Uncertainty

    My 30 minute reading challenge is paying off. 30 minutes a day reading ‘Youth and Positive Uncertainty by Vicky Johnson…