Lesley Parkinson

How to:

💡Understand each other better at work
👌🏾Have a sustainable, enjoyable career
🚀Play your part in fostering a safe, fair and meaningful workplace culture

Find out more: restorativethinking.co.uk/about-us/
#RelationalPublicServices #RestorativePracticeAtWork #NHS10YearHealthPlan #Nurses

#readytogo for #podcast #recordingday number 4. Our team are filming some additional footage this morning and another #episode this afternoon.

Get following us now to be the first to know of our launch (link in bio)

#internationalrecruitment #stayandthrive #multiprofessional #education

Home - Love Teaching Keep Teaching Are you tired of school? Did you used to love teaching but feel like everything else just gets in the way? Are you concerned that so many great teachers are leaving the profession? Life is too short…

Peter Radford, author of #LoveTeaching, has launched a new website packed with honest advice and practical strategies to help you stay well - and stay in the profession. 🏫📚

Take the Love Teaching test, explore free resources and learn more about his book while you’re there:

✅ Enabling the NHS 10 Year Health Plan.

👩🏾‍⚕️🧑🏾‍⚕️ Relational and restorative practice transforms how teams work together.

NHS Trusts: start small; enrol up to 10 key colleagues to our RCN-accredited online programme 'Relationships for Change' and we'll help you to think through options to scale.

How to:

💡Understand each other better at work
👌🏾Have a sustainable, enjoyable career
🚀Play your part in fostering a safe, fair and meaningful workplace culture

Find out more: restorativethinking.co.uk/about-us/
#RelationalPublicServices #RestorativePracticeAtWork #NHS10YearHealthPlan #Nurses

NHS Trusts, to support responses to the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, in-person workshops at the Royal College of Nursing:

✅Relational Leadership
☑️Relational and restorative practice for PNAs and PMAs

Online:

🧑🏾‍⚕️👩🏾‍⚕️ RCN-accredited 'Relationships for Change' programme, rated 'excellent', 'very valuable'.

The NHS 10 Year Health Plan calls for relational leadership.

Join us this Autumn to start or continue your relational leadership journey.

More information, e-mail: lesley@restorativethinking.co.uk

#NHSLeadership #RelationalPractice

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#NHSLeadership #HealthcareLeadership #NHSInnovation
#LeadershipDevelopment #Nurses #Midwives #Doctors #PatientSafety @crownhousepub.bsky.social

What does it mean to become an educator in a period of profound change?

Hear @ahargreaves.bsky.social's perspective in #TheMakingofanEducator - out now!

📙: buff.ly/rBrCna9

There's a new role for relational leadership in the NHS 10-year Health Plan:

"To create an NHS fit for the future, we need leaders at every level who are bold, relational and capable of leading system change ..."

Join our 'Relational Leadership' course in Oct or Nov at the RCN. Contact me.

YouTube video by Lynda Holt RIPPLES - a film about incivility at work

🎞️ 2-minute film about the personal cost of incivility in the workplace from @lyndaholt.bsky.social and Firewood Studios.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukxs...

❓What would you do?

#leadership #civility #RestorativePracticeAtWork

📚 A 'must read' for those interested in how relational leadership enables change in healthcare:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#NHS10YearHealthPlan #OurNHSPeople #RestorativePracticeAtWork

"I genuinely think that change is better done with people than to people." (@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social)

Join us at @rcn.org.uk for our relational leadership workshop, and find out what it means to work 'with' rather than 'to' and how to make this visible and effective in your #leadership role.

There's a new role for relational leadership in the NHS 10-year Health Plan:

"To create an NHS fit for the future, we need leaders at every level who are bold, relational and capable of leading system change ..."

Join our 'Relational Leadership' course in Oct or Nov at the RCN. Contact me.

There's an identified place and role for restorative and relational practice in the new NHS 10-year Health Plan:

"To create an NHS fit for the future, we need leaders at every level who are bold, relational and capable of leading system change aligned to the 3 shifts."

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

So, You Cried at Work If you have ever cried at work, then you know it can feel embarrassing. You may worry about what your colleagues think of you or become concerned about how your outburst may jeopardize your profession...

45% of us have cried at work.
"What makes you a great leader is how you choose to respond and communicate when those emotional reactions do arise. If you take ownership of your feelings and reactions, it conveys strength and confidence that others will respect."
hbr.org/2022/01/so-y...

We've added a new section to our online courses called 'Learning from each other'!
Our first 'guest' is Corina Benjamin, Mental Health Support Team Manager at Notts City Council. Thank you Corina! Watch Corina's first video here (2nd item on this webpage): restorativethinking.co.uk/resources/

Written with warmth, passion and empathy, #ItsMorethanFlagsandRainbows by ‪@itimbrell.bsky.social‬ encourages schools to create meaningful and lasting change for the LGBTQ+ students in their care. 💙

Out now! Find out more: buff.ly/kI5nWsj

@itlworldwide.bsky.social‬

Join us on 20th October at the Royal College of Nursing. Hope to see you there. #nurses #midwives restorativethinking.co.uk/resources/ @pmarquisrcn.bsky.social @swj1.bsky.social @alisonleary1.bsky.social @ecwestcott.bsky.social @simoneth.bsky.social @mattetherington.bsky.social

@nursesarahjay.bsky.social @marycjenkins.bsky.social @suzanneturner.bsky.social @mrsvjcarter.bsky.social @pnakaty.bsky.social @sunitaduggal.bsky.social @juliaf3.bsky.social @reginareyes.bsky.social Would love to see you there!

🎺 1-day workshop
🩵 Royal College of Nursing
📅 Monday 20th October 2025

Restorative and relational practice workshop.
Details, brochure and booking details here: restorativethinking.co.uk/resources/ @baxter-heyes.bsky.social @nursegow.bsky.social @bixsmof.bsky.social @graceatfons.bsky.social

💭 How do you think bullying in the workplace differs from bullying in schools?
Let’s open up the conversation. Drop your thoughts below! 👇

#TalkItOutTuesdays #WorkplaceBullying #SchoolBullying #Inclusion

This is designed to help reverse this trend: restorativethinking.co.uk/self-guided/

"Best online learning I have completed! Practical tools, with supporting resources to see how they work in practice." (Anonymous feedback, 'Relationships for Change' course participant).
restorativethinking.co.uk/self-guided/ #RestorativePracticeAtWork @rcn.org.uk @rcsed.bsky.social #nurses

RCN-accredited programme: 'Relationships for Change'

For leaders and staff, health and social care.

Participants progress through a series of structured modules, gaining practical tools and techniques they can immediately apply within their team/department. restorativethinking.co.uk/self-guided/

ADHD UK and Healthwatch logos Deep dives episode 7: Deep dive into Healthwatch's findings on ADHD with Henry Shelford and Paul Callaghan. adhduk.co.uk/deep-dives

Our Policy Manager, Paul, recently spoke to ADHD UK in their podcast about our latest report on how to improve ADHD support for people. Tune in to hear about our findings and recommendations - bit.ly/3Ti814F

🎥 We’re proud to launch our new video, created to shine a light on the impact of bullying – and how, together, we can stand up for children facing it.

💛 Donate today to unite against bullying: bit.ly/45pH71W

🙏 Huge thanks to Animwood Studio: bit.ly/4jWqVJ8

RCN-accredited programme: 'Relationships for Change'

For leaders and staff, health and social care.

Participants progress through a series of structured modules, gaining practical tools and techniques they can immediately apply within their team/department. restorativethinking.co.uk/self-guided/

How are human-AI interactions shaping us?

👩🏾‍💻🧑‍🤝‍🧑 How can we continue to focus on improving workplace relationships whilst simultaneously embracing AI? Any answers?
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/urba...
#NHSConfedExpo @marlynnweimd.bsky.social