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 presents:
One-day conference: safeguarding with young people who are questioning, leaving, or changing faith
Young people questioning, leaving, or changing faith
Wed 21 October 2026 | 09:15 - 16:00 | Fazeley Studios, Birmingham
Resonant Collaboration is hosting a one-day conference about safeguarding with young people who are questioning, leaving, or changing faith.
Early bird tickets are available at £45 until 31 July. Full price: £65
Participating contributors and speakers include:
Dr Naomi Thompson, Reader in Youth and Community Work, Goldsmiths, University of London, sociologist of youth and inclusion, with a particular interest in faith and other intersecting identities.
Young people from Birmingham who are shaping this project, including community researchers from Volunteering for Health, and the St Basils Youth Advisory Board
Yehudis Fletcher, PhD researcher at Durham University and author of Chutzpah, speaking from research and lived experience of leaving a high-control religious community.
Dr Rachael Owens, Associate Professor, Global Centre for Contextual Safeguarding, Durham University.
Canon Dr Andrew Smith, Director of Interfaith Relations, Church of England, Birmingham.
Dr Luke Billingham, Youth Worker, Hackney Quest and Research Associate, Open University.
Faith to Faithless Humanists UK: survivor-led service for people leaving high-control religion.
More speakers and a call for participation to be announced…
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 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 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 on Wed 21 October 2026 in Birmingham to grow our collective knowledge about this topic, reflect on practice and create helpful guidance and professional development about youth faith transitions.
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.
Selection of our collaboration partners 2025 and 2026
