Creating Resonant Spaces: Introducing Resonant Collaboration
In this webinar, Co-Founders Colin Michel and Rachel Ringham will introduce Resonant Collaboration, a new social enterprise making sense of youth safeguarding through professional development for organisations and partnerships across different service sectors.
Why Resonance?
Resonance is the kind of relationship we have to each other and to the world that is enhanced by emotional awareness and by openness to one other. This is an idea put forward by sociologist and cultural theorist, Harmut Rosa. Resonance is not an echo. It’s the kind of responsiveness, which asks each of us to speak with – and listen to – our unique voices.
We believe resonance is both a universal human need and a capacity we can grow. People have a deep need for shared understanding and connection. This is how we can make sense, together, of the situations, events and challenges in our lives.
Why Collaboration?
Humans are social and interdependent beings: relationships are what we live for.
As we move through the 21st century, many of us sense that society has placed too much emphasis on personal autonomy and self-reliance. This comes at the cost of sustaining conducive conditions for community, connectedness, and collective flourishing. We think this may be contributing to widespread feelings of isolation, instability, lack of common purpose, and poor levels of trust in our public institutions. Put, simply we don’t feel well enough or connected enough to each other.
When it comes to creating safety with young people, families and communities, we think there is more work to be done on strengthening relational practice and collaboration. Pretty much every institution, service, and setting in the world of children and young people services agree that relationships matter. But many leaders, managers and practitioners feel they don’t have time, capacity, tools or authority to make collaboration a priority.
This goes beyond “integrated working”, “information sharing” or “multi-agency arrangements” and pivots toward what we call Resonant Collaboration.