These posts focus on prioritising human connection, trust, and authentic relationships as central to all interactions in community building and system change. It promotes relational ways of working that move beyond transactional relationships and recognise all interactions as a many-to-many system.
Key elements include open communication, building psychological safety where people feel comfortable to express themselves without fear, and fostering humility and curiosity to welcome diverse perspectives and overcome traditional hierarchies.
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Collaboration, systems change and relational working
Collaboration - A Summary
Collaboration: "a process through which parties who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for solutions that go beyond their own limited vision of ...
Give patience and time
A long-term commitment is needed because that is the length of time that people and relationships work over. It takes time to physically reach people and to make contact. It takes time to gradually sh...
Humility and curiosity
This has a number of different aspects to it. First, at a very human level, if members of a collaboration make assumptions that, because of an area of expertise or worse, positional power, they need t...
Belong in Plymouth @ Matters of the HeART
On May 18th, Belong in Plymouth hosted an event at Ocean Studios to emphasize the importance of listening. The event aimed to make participants feel heard, regardless of their roles or labels, and to ...