Looking for solutions in group work

The Good Practice Mentor Team

A peer-support session facilitated by a Good Practice Mentor to try and find solutions to your current group dilemmas.

Co-production: involving insight & community voice

Find out more about how to capture insight and voice through a ‘working with’ approach from the GPM team.

Coming up this month...

Take a look at what the Good Practice Mentors have on offer this month.

Creating community connections and partnerships

Take a look at this collection to see what sessions the GPM team have to support you to build connections and partnerships within your community.

Hosting groups to create a sense of belonging

This collection of workshops offers support around creating a 'Warm Welcome' in community groups and ensuring that they are inclusive spaces.

Have you got an issue you need to tackle in your work with groups in the community? Recruiting new and diverse members, addressing cliques or tricky group dynamics, supporting or encouraging volunteers, making changes to structure or activities, or something else?Whether you’ve been to a GPM training session before<a href="" title="" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> </a>and want to think about how you could use that knowledge in your situation, or you have a specific issue you’d like some support with, this session could help you.Our Good Practice Mentor Jessica Duffy from Leeds Older People’s Forum, will bring together small groups of other individuals who are responsible for groups in their area, and provide a safe and supportive space for you to share your experiences, ask questions and collaborate with colleagues to try and find solutions to your current group dilemmas. We’ll support each other to think of new ways to tackle challenges and get fresh perspectives from peers, while offering expertise and advice from your own experiences.Jessica has over 20 years of experience establishing and working alongside groups, and training volunteers in group leadership. Come and find out how she and your community-based peers can help you solve your tricky group problems!If you can’t make it to one of these peer based sessions, or if you want to work something through with your own staff team then please get in touch to organise a bespoke session that will work for you and your organisation.