Making sense of youth safeguarding
& bringing practice to life.
We create Resonant Spaces for connection, learning and professional development to help you nurture relationships with young people and each other.
Resonant Collaboration webinar:
What is Social Energy?
Colin Michel and Rachel Ringham
Wed 17 Dec 2025, 10.00-11.30 (online)
Sociologist Hartmut Rosa describes resonance as responsiveness: speaking with and listening to one another, and the world. Resonance is both a universal human need and a capacity we can nurture, but not control, helping people make sense of challenges together through connection and shared understanding.
“The energy we need to create change is not something we own—it is something we participate in. And in this room, it is clear we can create it together.”
— Hartmut Rosa.
In this free webinar, we reflect on Rosa’s idea of Social Energy: shared vitality through togetherness.
Could this idea help us strengthen our youth safeguarding systems?
Who we are
Resonant Collaboration was founded by Colin Michel and Rachel Ringham, specialists in youth safeguarding, relational practice, and multi-agency collaboration.
What we do
We work with professionals across sectors to create Resonant Spaces for learning, collaboration, and change within teams, services, and multi-agency partnerships
How we work
We explore real-life stories, share ideas, create practical resources, and add a little touch of creative sparkle to cultivate connection, confidence, and capability.
Learning opportunities
We design and facilitate workshops, courses, and learning programmes to help you create safety with young people.
Organisational consultancy
We provide consultancy to help you improve practice, management and oversight in teams, services, and multi-agency partnerships.
Groups & supervision
We facilitate reflective groups and supervision to help you reflect, make sense, and learn in relation to work experience.
Resonant Collaboration projects
On professional love…
Exploring the nuances of professional love within safeguarding, social care, education, and related professions, this project seeks to understand how to cultivate authentic relationships amidst massive structural challenges.
Youth sector leaders development programme
A non-accredited development programme for youth work leaders, jointly run with London Youth, focusing on experiential learning to enhance emotional self-awareness and practical skills within their youth work settings.
Human Learning Systems + Transitional Safeguarding
At Resonant Collaboration, we believe in a human-centred, adaptive, and collaborative approach. This project is exploring links between the paradigms of Human Learning Systems and Transitional Safeguarding.
