Learning Out Loud

Are you ready to LOL?!?

Calling all social pedagogy enthusiasts! Are you ready to take your learning to the next level? Join us in Learning Out Loud, a vibrant virtual community where we cultivate our learning mindsets, share insights, and connect with like-minded individuals.

Unleash Your Learning Potential

In Learning Out Loud, we harness the power of reflection and shared experiences to transform your learning journey. Bring your recent learning experiences, whether from your practice, readings, podcasts, or webinars, and examine them more deeply within our supportive community.

Share, Explore and Grow Together

In our busy day-to-day practice, it’s easy to undervalue some of the little things we do that make a difference. Yet, often the learning from these experiences can be so valuable. In Learning Out Loud, you can share them with others to gain new perspectives, uncover hidden connections and enrich your understanding. Explore how others’ learning resonates with your own, opening up doors to deeper insights and enhanced practices.

Embark on a Collaborative Learning Journey

Learning Out Loud is more than just a learning space; it’s about being part of a community of like-minded people. We believe learning is critical in any profession, so you’re welcome to join whatever your job role or remit is, and you’re welcome to join for just one or as many sessions as you’d like. We hope you’ll love the opportunity to connect with others, share ideas, and forge meaningful connections that will inspire and motivate you throughout your learning journey.

Learning Out Loud sessions will take place via Zoom on the second Friday of each month at 1.00pm – 1.45pm (UK time). To join, please register below for our next session and discover the power of a shared learning experience!

Learning Out Loud: Where Social Pedagogy Learning Flourishes

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.

SPPA endorses our Social Pedagogy Practice learning programme

We’re excited to share that the Social Pedagogy Professional Association has formally endorsed our new Social Pedagogy Practice learning programme. Combining our online course on Developing Relationship-Centred Practice and our MOOC on Social Pedagogy across Europe with team development training and ongoing peer learning, the new learning programme is designed to embed social pedagogy within frontline practice and throughout organisations. It is aligned with the SPPA Social Pedagogy Charter and Standards, meaning that graduates will gain the title of Social Pedagogy Practitioner.

We have developed the Social Pedagogy Practice learning programme with the National House Project, a brilliant charity that provides support and expertise to local authorities across the UK to set up and manage Local House Projects so that young people leave care in a planned and supported way. This learning programme will create a recognisable bespoke CPD programme for house project staff that is carefully integrated into their practice to ensure that all learning is genuinely relevant and directly benefits the care experienced young people they support. The programme will deepen learners’ understanding of how social pedagogy can provide a shared ethical purpose, unleash their creative potential and further strengthen the amazing practice across house projects.

By combining a range of learning elements that offer many different complementary learning experiences – both online and face-to-face, both individually and in groups, both house project specific and across various practice contexts – the learning programme aims to create enjoyable, meaningful and rewarding learning experiences that help people grow not just as practitioners but as human beings.

We’ll share more insights about the learning programme as this unfolds and are happy to explore opportunities to develop a similar approach with other organisations. Just contact us at dialogue@thempra.org.uk for a conversation.

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: 16 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.