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.
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 webinar:
What is Social Energy?
Colin Michel and Rachel Ringham
Wed 18 Mar 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?
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.
Resonant Collaboration blog:
Creating safety with young people leaving, losing or changing faith
Read about our new project: creating safety with young people who are leaving, losing or changing faith.
This work will bring together research, practice and lived experience, working with national, regional and local partners to develop practice principles for youth safeguarding and faith transitions.
Get in touch to let us know you’d like to collaborate with us on this topic, and for more information about an upcoming learning event…
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.
