Creating conducive conditions for relational practice to flourish

Creating conducive conditions for relational practice to flourish in youth safeguarding systems

Resonant Collaboration is excited to be joined by special guest facilitator, Luke Billingham

Event Location: London Youth

Join us for an interactive face-to-face workshop, focusing on youth safeguarding and relational practice in the heart of London.

Learn from experts in the field and engage in discussions on how to create conducive condutions for building the crucial capacities to create safety with young people.

Who is this workshop for?

Whether you're a youth worker, educator, sports coach, social worker, or simply interested in nurturing youth awareness, agency and wellbeing, this workshop is for you.

This workshop will be useful for practitioners, managers and leaders across all parts of the youth safeguarding system and in youth-facing settings. We welcome participants working in the arts, community, creative, education, faith, heritage, leisure, sports, voluntary sector, and more.

A wonderful opportunity to network, learn, and gain inspiration for how to create positive change with young people and communities.

The workshop aims to boost your knowledge, skills, and confidence in youth safeguarding and relational practice, especially regarding harms experienced outside the home.

Course context & purpose

The term ‘relational practice’ does not have one definition for youth safeguarding and can encompass several types of relationships:

• professional relationships in direct work with young people;
• how young people relate to themselves, to their multi-faceted identities and lived experiences, and to people and places; and
• the relationships between our professional roles, organisations, and sectors.

This one-day workshop examines relationships, resonance and collaboration in youth safeguarding systems.

We will look at how the capacities for attunement and analysis are vital for youth safeguarding, whether practised in social work, youth and community work, justice, healthcare or in other professional contexts.

These capacities support practitioners to cultivate and sustain trusted relationships and to nurture young people’s awareness, agency and wellbeing.

We will put forward a framework to show how conducive conditions for relational practice can be fostered and bolstered.

The workshop aims to guide practitioners, managers and leaders in an exploration of the obstacles and enablers for relational practice.

Course aimWe aim to strengthen the case for creating conducive conditions for relational practice to flourish in your youth safeguarding system.

Learning objectives

By the end of this one-day workshop, you will be able to:

• Identify the features of youth safeguarding systems and your capacity for fostering relational practice, identifying key barriers and opportunities for change.
• Articulate core capabilities and benefits of relational practice within youth safeguarding, understanding how these capacities contribute to nurturing youth agency and wellbeing.
• Explore tools and approaches for nurturing conducive conditions within your own professional roles and organisational contexts, drawing insights from the paper's recommendations.
• Develop your own action plan outlining steps to advocate for, implement, and embed relational practice within local youth safeguarding systems