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Pride in Place Strategy The Pride in Place Strategy will help build stronger communities, create thriving places and empower local people.

🧵3) Pride in Place is the first regeneration programme, stretching right back to the Urban Programmes of the 1960s and 70s, to recognise prominently and explicitly the power and importance of relationships.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

🧵2) "All places should have strong relationships and a collective sense of belonging to their community. This helps bring people together to build community cohesion and resilience, helping people to feel proud of their area and safe in their neighbourhood..."

🧵1) This is a milestone moment. The first (first!) objective of the £5bn UK Government's Pride in Place programme couldn't be clearer:

🧵3)Relational Readiness:
📝 Sign up to the Zoom: lnkd.in/et5-46pa
📖 Read more on our blog: lnkd.in/eCxNxvrK
💭 And whether or not you can make the Zoom, we'd love it if you added any thoughts to this doc: bit.ly/relationalreadiness

🧵2) What are the indicators that a place is ready to embrace and embed relationship-centred practice?

🧵1) We’ve been thinking about ‘relational readiness’: an individual, organisation or community's receptivity to the values and intentions of relational practice, and ability to embed it in their day-to-day doings. Some places are more ready than others.

Relational Leadership - ThemPra Social Pedagogy

Keen to know more about Human Learning Systems or how to create psychological safety within our teams and across systems?

This Relational Leadership course from ThemPra looks great:

www.thempra.org.uk/thempra/our-...

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"We’d run through fire for people we love but most of us study our phones when faced with a stranger."

In this short, personal blog, David reflects on the power of kindness, and how caring for and about people we do not know is a human superpower: relationshipsproject.org/four-signs-l...

Our relationships with one another are the foundations, the bedrock, on which all else is built. And yet UK society has consistently undervalued them, marginalising the evidence.

David Robinson maps how we could set a different course and build a different future: Read the essay: bit.ly/3SyahnU

Want to engage in conversations beyond your usual circle and meaningfully connect with someone new?@therootsprogramme.bsky.social is running a free online exchange that brings together adults from different backgrounds.

Learn more and sign up 👉: tinyurl.com/yhs2278e

@commcats.bsky.social

Nick Sinclair and David Robinson reflect on recent policy-driven changes that offer opportunities for achieving #relational neighbourhoods: "an area where connections matter as much as, if not more than, geography."

relationshipsproject.org/the-relational-neighbourhood/

@nicksinclair.bsky.social

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🧵 3) And here, Rich Bell argues that to unleash the potential of mission-based government, ministers should lean into relational practice, as: "Relationships are the bedrock upon which trust is built – they are catalysts for collective action."

relationshipsproject.org/how-a-drive-...

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🧵 2) Here, Paul Morrison sets out 5 ways the government could design policy in a way that recognises change happens through networks of people and organisations:
relationshipsproject.org/a-relational-approach-to-public-policy-why-its-now-essential/

🧵 1) Nine months have passed since the UK general election; the PM and the Chancellor have declared the intent to do government differently.We believe these plans must include a deep and wide commitment to relational practice. In a pair of blogs, we dig into the practicalities:

Reflective Relational Practice: Assessing and enhancing the quality of our relationships “The most important unit of analysis in a system is not the part (e.g.

"If you want to change the outcomes that emerge from a social system, you need to change the relationships that shape its dynamic and capacity."

What's Reflective Relational Practice and how could it be implemented to assess the health of relationships in your organisation or community?

How to add new life to your relationships (even your best ones!) Want lasting happiness? Invest in your connections to other people, suggest Robert Waldinger MD and Marc Schulz PhD, codirectors of the longest-running scientific study on well-being. Here, they sh…

Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz share four ways we can invest in our relationships: ideas.ted.com/how-to-add-n...

1. Feel the power of generosity
2. Practice radical curiosity
3. Communicate understanding back to others
4. Do regular relationship check-ins

Which of the four do you already do?

What's unique to human relationships? What is it about human to human relationships that can't be replicated by technology?

Respond to our three-question survey and help us to develop ideas around relational approaches to the rollout of new technologies:

forms.gle/dC71FxF1qKLJ...

Impact Galleries – What are they and why are they so impactful? - Neighbourly Lab At Neighbourly Lab we have been busy developing a new and exciting output called the Impact Gallery. The premise of the gallery is simple, it is a tool to share and elevate the work that is going on w...

An 'Impact Gallery' 🖼️ is a tool developed by @neighbourlylab.bsky.social to share and elevate the work happening within communities and industries. It can help share best practice and learnings, celebrate success, and bring people together. Learn more: www.neighbourlylab.com/impact-galle...

🔑 Relational offsetting 🔑

Thank you to all who came to last week's conversation on 'relational offsetting'. We left with a lot to reflect on, both in terms of the potential & associated risks.

💡 Full blog 👉 relationshipsproject.org/how-to-have-...

🗨️ Takeaways 👉 docs.google.com/presentation...

📅 ONE WEEK TO GO 📅

Join us on 24/02 1-2.15pm GMT to explore the concept of relational offsetting

🤔 Could you see it having benefit in your place?
🤔 What are the risks?
🤔 Where can tech help and where is a relationship required?

Read more & RSVP 👉 relationshipsproject.org/how-to-have-...

The big idea: why your brain needs other people Your own thoughts are just part of the picture – relationships are vital to the way you think

🧠 Why our brains need other people 🧠

www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

Relationships are vital to the way we think, and can even determine the degree of cognitive impairment following a brain injury or stroke.

🍰 "Social capital is the cake, not the icing, of a strong, well functioning economy"

Andy Haldane and David Halpern demonstrate the importance of trust and collaboration within communities

Guardian article 👉 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Full paper 👉 demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...

We've had lots of thought-provoking feedback on the concept of 'relational offsetting' (lnkd.in/eQtxZGCk).

Join us on Zoom on 24/2 1-2.15pmGMT to think about how relationships can be taken out of one part of a service in order to double down on relationships in another

RSVP 👉 lnkd.in/eVBDCQYv

We're delighted to see relationship-centred practice gain ever more prominence in the youth justice space.

This paper by HM Inspectorate of Probation offers us an evidence-informed model for effective relational working 👉
lnkd.in/ewhv-gyV

We’d value your support in developing these ideas.
Join us in an exploratory Zoom conversation on Monday 24th February at 1pm GMT:

forms.gle/qMda4eyxTDzD...

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In this blog, we outline the purpose of relational offsetting, explore some of the processes that might enable it, and explain why understanding and promoting “the art and the science” is more important now than ever before.

relationshipsproject.org/how-to-have-...

What is relational offsetting? Could it transform public services and allow us to prioritise human relationships where they really matter?

We think so: relationshipsproject.org/how-to-have-...

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Our friends at the Roots Programme bring together neighbours in neutral spaces to listen deeply and reimagine their place.

Read more about how they're bridging gaps and supporting lasting relationships:

relationshipsproject.org/the-roots-pr...