join our free session on 28 May to discuss The Twisting House
We’re excited to invite you to our next social pedagogy reading club session on The Twisting House – a short story reflecting on public services. Written by our friend Sharon Court, the story imaginatively discusses how we work in public services and what relational public services could look like.
📆Thursday, 28 May, 6.30pm-8.00pm (UK time)
💻live via Zoom – free
Here’s how the Twisting House starts:
From the front it looked like any other, ordinary house. A front door with a brass knocker in the middle, with windows either side and above. A red tiled roof with chimney stacks topped the house like festive icing, whilst on the ground an unexceptional green lawn and path made of pale yellow sandstone led to the front door. It looked to all intents and purposes like every other house on the same street. There were net curtains in the windows so it was hard to see inside, but it looked just the same as every other house.
Until you got inside.
The Twisting House tells the story of Luke who is desperately trying to help people but keeps meeting the same people over and over – until he meets Kelly who persuades him to trust himself and take a more relational approach.
You can read more about Sharon’s rationale for re-imagining the challenges of ‘service delivery’ and the possibilities of relational public service in her blog here. And you can hear more from her during our reading club session on Thursday evening.
Read the full short story in advance here. Just click the button below to register for the Social Pedagogy Reading Club.
We hope to see you there for what promises to be a thought-provoking and energising conversation.
