Understanding how Warm Welcome Techniques can help you reset your group

Tips and techniques for giving your sessions a Warm Welcome, creating a sense of belonging and fostering inclusive behaviour

We all know working with groups is great when it's all going smoothly, but it can also go through bumpy patches. Whether that is simply seeing the same faces every week, or realising the group is shrinking but you don’t know how to engage more people, then our Warm Welcome techniques can help you.

In this session we will be sharing learning from the Ageing Better programme about how some simple techniques can help you to run sessions which offer everyone a warm welcome to your group, create a sense of belonging, and encourage everyone to be responsible for kind behaviour. This supports everyone in a group but is particularly effective when you are recruiting new members or looking to engage with people who might not usually engage with social activities.

We will look at ways you can foster better relationships in groups, and techniques which might help you to revitalise activity.

We can’t promise an overnight fix but can give you some tried and tested approaches to help you change things for everyone.

There will be lots of opportunities for you to share experiences and find out what has worked for others.