In this webinar, Colin Michel and Rachel Ringham will introduce Resonant Collaboration, a new social enterprise helping to create safety and nurture wellbeing with young people by providing professional development for organisations and partnerships across different service sectors…

With special guest facilitator, Luke Billingham

The term ‘relational practice’ does not have one definition for youth safeguarding and can encompass several types of relationships:

• professional relationships in direct work with young people;

• how young people relate to themselves, to their multi-faceted identities and lived experiences, and to people and places; and

• the relationships between our professional roles, organisations, and sectors.

This one-day workshop examines relationships, resonance and collaboration in youth safeguarding systems. We will look at how the capacities for attunement and analysis are vital for youth safeguarding, whether practised in social work, youth and community work, justice, healthcare or in other professional contexts. These capacities support practitioners to cultivate and sustain trusted relationships and to nurture young people’s awareness, agency and wellbeing.

In this workshop, we will put forward a framework to show how conducive conditions for relational practice can be fostered and bolstered. The workshop aims to guide practitioners, managers and leaders in an exploration of the obstacles and enablers for relational practice.

We aim to strengthen the case for creating conducive conditions for relational practice to flourish in your youth safeguarding system.