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.
A Resonant Collaboration learning event:
Safeguarding with young people leaving, losing or changing faith
Safeguarding with young people leaving, losing or changing faith
Wed 8 July 2026 | 09:15 - 16:00 | Fazeley Studios, Birmingham
We are hosting a learning event about support and safeguarding with young people who are leaving, losing, or changing faith. This includes young people trying to exit high-control religious contexts, where leaving can mean losing connections, family, housing and community.
Participating contributors include:
Young community researchers from Birmingham's Volunteering for Health.
Canon Dr Andrew Smith, Director of Interfaith Relations for the Bishop of Birmingham.
Razia Butt, Director of Thriving Families, Birmingham City Council
Luke Billingham, youth worker and researcher, Hackney Quest / Open University.
Global Centre for Contextual Safeguarding, University of Durham.
Humanists UK: Faith to Faithless, and more specialist contributors to be confirmed.
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.
Resonant Collaboration blog:
Aftercare: what happens to us after the review is done?
Colin Michel and Rachel Ringham
Aftercare matters in Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews. This piece explores how CSPRs can cause anxiety and defensiveness across safeguarding partnerships, and why planned aftercare creates the conditions for learning to travel, relationships to repair, and change to settle into everyday practice.
At Resonant Collaboration, we want to have honest conversations with safeguarding partners about how reviews are held, how people are supported through them, and how learning is carried forward afterwards. If you are trying to strengthen aftercare, build trust across agencies, or move beyond performative implementation into real learning, we would welcome a conversation. Aftercare should be part of the safeguarding infrastructure, not an afterthought.
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.
Young people leaving, losing and changing faith
We are convening a learning event in Birmingham in Summer 2026 to grow our collective knowledge about this topic, reflect on practice and create helpful guidance for everyone.
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.
