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

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.