bespoke PACKAGES, seminars & workshops
We also offer workshops, seminars, webinars, retreats and other learning events using our blend of skills depending on the requests or needs of the client.
Examples of BESPOKE work completed include:
PROGRAMME FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
o A short programme for young people (aged 14-16) to encourage them to understand their own leadership capabilities alongside identifying their inspirations, aspirations and strengths. Through both face-to-face workshops and follow up zoom calls we created a safe space for them to voice their internal conversations.
o Finding and expressing their vulnerability in front of those they would normally be positioning themselves against and/or comparing themselves with, proved empowering and enabled them to identify strength in vulnerability as opposed to vulnerability being perceived as a weakness.
ADULT EXPERIENCE OF LONELINESS GROUP - Connected Conversations – Leaders by Experience tackling loneliness in their community
o Erosion of confidence when the activities and relationships that keep us ‘in touch’ with the world as we age fall away – partner, parent, worker, friend – and age introduces physical and sensory impairments that make engagement with others a challenge, lack of confidence often leading to loneliness can become a reality.
o The conversations we begin to have with ourselves can isolate us even further. Using the Elements of Conversational Leadership, we supported the group to explore and give voice to the emotional and psychological effects of loneliness.
o The aim of the group was to support them to find their leadership role within their communities, to support other older adults, get in touch with the value of their past, present and future, increase their confidence and re-engage in life.
This two year National Lottery funded project aimed to empower older people with lived experience of loneliness and isolation to develop their leadership capabilities to positively influence services and activities in their community. Over the two years of the project, 30 older people and 15 local champions were trained in the principles of Conversational Leadership and supported to work in collaboration to tackle loneliness in Hertfordshire. This project is an example of genuine co-production that has led to tangible benefits to both the ‘leaders by experience’ and to the community in which they live.
consultation on psychological wellbeing & distress in school population
o The Sacred Heart network of schools in San Francisco were already engaged both in processes of Conversational Leadership and in the development of emotional/wellbeing education as curriculum activities and ‘golden threads’ to run through the whole school experience for students. As part of these processes Sacred Heart collaborated with Atlas Mental Health to submit a successful bid to the EE Ford Foundation for funds to develop a digital app designed to increase emotional wellbeing in the school population. The idea was to develop the app in co-production between the school, the tech company and the student population.
o We facilitated deepening conversations with and between the tech company, students and faculty members turning into the topics of wellbeing, distress and mental health issues (discussions around shame, self-compassion, social comparison) from which we drew recommendations as well as enabled the project itself to benefit from those conversations taking place.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT WITH LOCAL AUTHORITY YOUTH SERVICE
FROM SENIOR MANAGEMENT TO FRONT LINE WORKERS
o YC Hertfordshire (the Youth Connexions service) commissioned Restoration to support their team development. With senior management we developed a bespoke two-day workshop to embed a common language and understanding of Conversational Leadership, values and behaviours across the team. The aim was to support collaboration within the team, empowering all staff to lead and strengthen the team’s ability to work in partnership with commissioners, district teams, health/hospitals and other partner organisations across the county.
Hertfordshire Practical Parenting Programme CIC – Supporting the organisation through a period of change and development
o The initial aim was to develop leadership skills of family support workers that are founded on being compassionate, empathic and non-judgemental and this has evolved into an ongoing partnership that also supports delivery to families, young people an survivors of domestic abuse. Using Conversational Leadership as the main frame, creating a way of working that allows deep and ‘real’ conversation to occur, strengthening authentic and collaborative approaches to sometimes difficult topics.
Restoration has supported the organisation to:
o adopt an asset based approach in their partnership and frontline work, supporting families and young people to build on the strengths within and around them and using positive risk taking in finding solutions that are person centred and community based.
o improve their impact, with performance increasing in a key indicator in preventing children from being taken into care with 96% of families remaining together.
o deliver workshops and one-to-one support to staff, volunteers, young people and adults impacted by domestic abuse.
Whilst there is a structural frame to our work, every engagement is unique because we can only work with what is there. Our work is frequently both disturbing and exciting as we offer a framework to discover who you are and help support you to explore what needs to emerge to ensure sustainable change.