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Happy New Year! To continue to support your social pedagogy journey in 2024, we’re delighted to share with you a few upcoming events over the coming months. With all our online courses, we’ve decided to delay our fee increase – sadly inevitable given the high inflation levels over the past few years. You can register by the end of January to pay just the current rate.

Developing Relationship-Centred Practice

New online cohort starts 26 January 6 x 3-hr sessions – £300 (until 31 January)

There’s still time to join our online course for anyone in social care, social work, education and other settings where relationships matter. We’ll introduce you to many of the key concepts in social pedagogy to explore how you can centre your practice around meaningful authentic relationships and ensure your values are at the heart of your work. Find out more and register now via this link.

Making Co-Production Meaningful

New online cohort starts 25 February 5 x 3-hr sessions – £250 (until 31 January)

Co-production has become a popular term, yet it can be challenging to make it a meaningful process for everyone involved. Designed for anyone working in public service, such as social workers, educators, health professionals, community workers, managers, and leaders, our course will introduce you to the key principles of social pedagogy and Human Learning Systems to help you to co-create change together with the people you support. Interested? Then click here to find out more and register.

Relational Leadership

New online cohort starts 24 April 9 x 3-hr sessions – £450 (until 31 January)

Whether you’re planning to progress your career in 2024 or already an experienced leader, our Relational Leadership course could be just what you need. It’s one of the first courses to draw on Human Learning Systems, exploring how HLS can enable purpose-driven leadership in complex environments across organisations and local systems. Learn how you can be an authentic leader who inspires curiosity, connection and creativity. You can find all relevant details about the course here.

As a social enterprise, we will also continue to run free learning events open to anyone, in particular our new monthly opportunity to join Learning Out Loud.

Interested in cultivating your learning mindset within a supportive group? Then join us any second Friday of the month from 1pm-1.50pm (UK times). In Learning Out Loud we use both narrative and structured methods to reflect on a recent learning experience. Participants in our first session were amazed by how effective and appreciative it was to learn out loud with like-minded people. Join us for free by clicking here.

Relational Leadership – new dates for our experiential online course

How Social Pedagogy and Human Learning Systems can enable you to be an effective relational leader

This course is for you if ...

Whether you’re an experienced leader or are hoping to take on greater responsibility, our Relational Leadership course could be just what you need. It’s one of the first courses to draw on Human Learning Systems, exploring how HLS can enable purpose-driven leadership in complex environments across organisations and local systems. With a strong emphasis on learning transfer and peer learning, the course enables you to connect your learning straight to your unique practice context and critically reflect within an inspiring peer group on how your leadership can have the greatest positive impact.

Relational leadership is important because it:

  • Strengthens team morale by empowering and valuing employees.
  • Develops teamwork by fostering cooperation and collaboration among people.
  • Achieves positive change by aligning people with a clear and ethical purpose.
  • Enhances learning by embracing complexity and diversity.
  • Builds trust by creating authentic and empathetic relationships.

Our next cohort starts in spring 2024

Session 1: 24 Apr, 2024 – 9.30-12.30
Session 2: 25 Apr, 2024 – 9.30-12.30
Session 3: 15 May, 2024 – 9.30-12.30
Session 4: 16 May, 2024 – 9.30-12.30
Session 5: 5 Jun, 2024 – 9.30-12.30
Session 6: 6 Jun, 2024 – 9.30-12.30
Session 7: 3 Jul, 2024 – 9.30-12.30
Session 8: 4 Sep, 2024 – 9.30-12.30
Session 9: 25 Sep, 2024 – 9.30-12.30

 

Find out more here or click the button to enquire about joining our next cohort.

Further questions?

Please get in touch with us via email if you would like to know more about this course or any of our other learning activities.

Making Co-Production Meaningful – new dates for our experiential online course

Learn how to co-create and co-produce positive change with the people and communities you serve

This course is for you if ...

Designed for anyone working in public service, such as social workers, educators, health professionals, community workers, managers, and leaders, our course will introduce you to the key principles of social pedagogy and Human Learning Systems, and how you can use these approaches to co-create change with the people you support. With a strong emphasis on learning transfer and peer learning, the course enables you to connect your learning straight to your unique practice context and critically reflect within an inspiring peer group on how your co-production practices can have the greatest positive impact. Here are some of the benefits of taking this course:

  • You will gain a deeper understanding of the key principles of co-production, collaboration, and participation.
  • You will learn how to apply these principles in your own practice.
  • You will develop the skills and confidence to co-create meaningful change with the people you support.
  • You will connect with a community of practitioners who are also committed to co-production.

Our next cohort starts in February 2024

Session 1: 27 Feb, 2024 – 9.30-12.30
Session 2: 5 Mar, 2024 – 9.30-12.30
Session 3: 12 Mar, 2024 – 9.30-12.30
Session 4: 19 Mar, 2024 – 9.30-12.30
Session 5: 30 Apr, 2024 – 9.30-12.30

Find out more here or click the button to book your place on our next cohort.

 

Further questions?

Please get in touch with us via email if you would like to know more about this course or any of our other learning activities.

Developing Relationship-Centred Practice – online course

How the Diamond Model can help you place relationships at the heart of your practice

This course is for you if ...

Do you want to build meaningful and authentic relationships that foster well-being, learning, empowerment, and social inclusion? Our course will help you learn and apply the Diamond Model, a powerful concept in social pedagogy that visualises the potential and richness of every human being.

In this course, you will learn:

  • How to express your values and ethics in your interactions with others
  • How to develop authentic relationships that support social inclusion and meaningful belonging
  • How to support people’s well-being and happiness through holistic and strength-based practice
  • How to facilitate learning opportunities that enhance resilience and empowerment
  • How to create positive experiences in the everyday that enable independence and inter-dependence

Our next cohort starts in January 2024

Session 1: 26 Jan, 2024 – 9.30-12.30  
Session 2: 02 Feb, 2024 – 9.30-12.30
Session 3: 09 Feb, 2024 – 9.30-12.30  
Session 4: 01 Mar, 2024 – 9.30-12.30  
Session 5: 08 Mar, 2024– 9.30-12.30  
Session 6: 15 Mar, 2024 – 9.30-12.30 

 

Find out more below or click the button to book your place on our next cohort.

 

 

Further questions:

Please get in touch with us via email if you would like to know more about this course or any of our other learning activities.

The Social Pedagogy Development Network is back!

Have you been missing the excitement and networking opportunities of our Social Pedagogy Development Network events in the pre-pandemic past? Then we’ve got exciting news!

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been working on a plan to return to in-person events very soon. We’re delighted to share this with you below and hope you like it!

Keeping the SPDN free and affordable

As you might be aware, all of the SPDN events in the past have only been possible, because we’ve had brilliant host organisations who have kindly provided the space for us to get together. And as organisers, we’ve been happy to co-ordinate the SPDN, because we know that change happens when people come together to share insight, inspiration and ideas.

Like everyone, we’re acutely aware that we’re in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis. This means we’re determined to keep participation free of charge and were looking for a solution that doesn’t incur huge travel costs for those of you who want to take part. We were also very mindful that it makes it all the harder for any organisation to just find the funds to host an in-person event for 100+ people. So here’s what we thought would work:

Small is beautiful: simultaneous mini-events in different locations

Instead of one large central event, we’re hoping to hold several small events, all happening at the same time and in various locations, all inter-connected via video link and social media. This, we hope, will mean that you’ll be able to join an in-person event near you – or put one on yourself, with our virtual support!

What will happen at the mini-events?

One of the most foundational tenets of social pedagogy is that every single person is intrinsically rich and resourceful. Everbody, no matter their age, has the potential to thrive if we can create enabling conditions. However, many of us work within organisational and societal contexts that restrict these enabling conditions. So how can we bring the notion of the rich child/young person/adult to life in our practice? Exploring responses to this question will be the main focus of an engaging, fun and creative session!

When will it happen?

We’ve not yet decided on a date but plan to do this in June, across 4 or more locations on the same morning (10am-12.30pm). We’re also planning to hold an online-only follow-up session a week or so later to share insights and learning across the events. We’ll set the date together with whoever would be happy to host a mini-event, which is where we need your help!

Help us make it happen!

To realise this idea we’re hoping to find a small number of convenors who will each host an in-person event for 10 to 20 people. Could you be one of them?

All mini-events will follow the same format, which we will co-design together with the convenors, so you’ll know exactly what to do and can bring in any ideas of your own if you want. To connect all different events with each other, we’ll provide an introductory input via Zoom, gather the outputs from each local event and share these at an online-only session shortly after the in-person event.

All registrations will be made centrally, so that these are accessible to anyone in the SPDN and beyond, and will remain free of charge. Local catering arrangements will be at the discretion of each host and could range from everyone bringing their own lunch, or something to share or paying a small catering contribution.

Let us know if you’d like to convene a mini-event

If you’d be happy to be actively involved and have access to a meeting room or any other space that can comfortably accommodate between 10 and 20 people, then please let us know by 24 March at the latest! You can find out more here or just click here to drop us an email.