Resonant Collaboration webinar: What is Social Energy?

Why do we need it in our youth safeguarding systems?

Thursday 16 October 2025
10:00 – 11:30 (online webinar)

Hosted by Colin Michel and Rachel Ringham, Co-Founders of Resonant Collaboration.

Why Resonance? Why Collaboration?

Sociologist Hartmut Rosa describes resonance as responsiveness, a way of speaking with and listening to one another. We see resonance as both a universal human need and a capacity we can nurture, enabling people to make sense of challenges together through connection and shared understanding.

Relationships are what we live for. Yet too often, our systems emphasise efficiency over community and professional love. In youth safeguarding, collaboration is widely valued but also constrained. Resonant Collaboration seeks to cultivate spaces where safety, awareness and agency grow from authentic connection and collective action.

Why Social Energy?

In this webinar, Colin and Rachel will reflect on Rosa’s idea of Social Energy—the shared vitality that arises when people connect and act together. Could this idea help us strengthen our youth safeguarding systems?

Watch Rosa introduce the idea of social energy at UNESCO (2024):

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