Creating conducive conditions for relational practice in youth safeguarding

Creating conducive conditions for resonance & collaboration

Re-thinking relational practice in youth safeguarding systems

Wednesday 8 October 2025

10:00 – 16:00

London Youth: 47-49 Pitfield Street, London, N1 6DA

With Colin Michel, Rachel Ringham (Resonant Collaboration) and Luke Billingham (Hackney Quest & The Open University)

£95 for full day, in-person session

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Making sense of youth safeguarding...

...bringing relational practice to life!

✅ Full-day hands-on workshop

✅ In-person support with experienced facilitators

✅ Networking with practitioners working in different places and contexts

✅ Gain tools and create an action plan for relational practice in youth safeguarding

What people say...

"I wish to express our heartfelt gratitude for the exceptional workshop on relational practice and youth safeguarding facilitated by Colin. Given the perfect alignment of your expertise with our values, we are excited about future collaboration."
— Director of Safeguarding, previous in-person workshop participant

“This has been my absolute favourite session I’ve been to in a very long time.
Massive thanks to Colin and Luke. I hope there is more on this because there are many more conversations and more work to be done on this!”

—Innovation Lead, previous webinar participant on same topic

Why join?

Relational practice is often spoken about in youth safeguarding, but rarely defined.

This full-day, interactive workshop gives you space to reflect, share practice, and build practical tools for creating safer, more collaborative systems with and for young people.

You will:

✅ Explore how relational practice works with young people, between professionals, and across systems.

✅ Learn how to create the conditions for resonance and collaboration in your context.

✅ Build confidence in sustaining trusted relationships with young people.

✅ Leave with practical tools and a personal action plan to apply immediately.

Who is it for?

• Youth workers, educators, sports coaches, social workers, healthcare professionals
• Managers and leaders across safeguarding partnerships
• Practitioners in community, arts, creative, education, faith, heritage, leisure, and voluntary sectors

If your work involves creating safety, agency, and wellbeing with young people, this workshop is for you.

Workshop focus

We’ll explore four principles for relational practice in youth safeguarding:

1. Putting young people at the centre – keeping their awareness, agency and wellbeing as the goal, without shifting responsibility onto them.
2. Valuing everyday relationships – recognising the safeguarding role of non-professional connections.
3. Working beyond silos – building collaboration across sectors and agencies.
4. Seeing the whole system – staying curious and flexible rather than bound by rigid procedures.

Your take-home toolkit

By the end of the day, you will:

• Identify enablers and barriers to relational practice in your context.
• Understand the core capacities of relational practice and their benefits for young people.
• Use tools and approaches to nurture conducive conditions within your role or organisation.
• Develop a personal action plan to advocate for and embed relational practice in your safeguarding system.

✨ Join us in London for a day of reflection, dialogue, and practical action — building youth safeguarding systems that truly nurture awareness, agency, and wellbeing.