We've got a number of online events planned this autumn and we'd love to see you at one – or all! 📆🍂 Social care and strong relationships • 12th Nov • RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Investing in relationships • 26th Nov • RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In our October newsletter, we explore #SocialCare, navigating risks and tensions in relational practice with care, the Relationships Heatmap, & more... 🗞️ Read the full newsletter: mailchi.mp/relationship... 📥 And subscribe to receive future editions directly in your email inbox: eepurl.com/h573kP

Last week our Relational Funders cohort met in person for a full day session, where we explored the relational pattern of 'Notice, Needs and Options', and rounded the day off with an exercise looking at what it means to be a relational funder – through LEGO® SeriousPlay®.

In this blog, Gwen Burnyeat details what #BridgeBuilding with twenty 16-19 year olds looks like, hosted by Solutions Not Sides (SNS), a UK peace education charity that teaches young people conflict resolution skills using Israel-Palestine as its case study: relationshipsproject.org/young-people...

On 4th Nov, charity TLC: Talk, Listen, Change launch their new report examining the factors shaping how we build and maintain our relationships in the UK. 🌍 Sign up to hear more about the pressures facing relationships today & what this means for public policy: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/relationsh...

The Relationships Heatmap is our free-to-use tool for reflection and conversation that helps to build stronger, more impactful relationships. We’d love you to give it a try and let us know how you get on! ➡️ heatmap.relationshipsproject.org

After building an app to bring eye care to millions of people, eye surgeon Andrew Bastawrous confronted a new question: What do we lose when health care chases speed and efficiency? ▶️ Watch Andrew's talk on how connection can serve as a measure of success in #health: www.ted.com/talks/andrew...

A different way to measure success in health care

After building a smartphone app to bring eye care to millions of people in remote areas, eye surgeon and TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous confronted a new question: What do we lose when health care…

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Paul Stepczak created the ‘Do With, Not To’ scorecard tool for public services and private companies to evaluate their progress in working alongside communities to make a real difference. Get stuck in: padlet.com/paulstepczak...

"Do With, Not To" Scorecard (Excel Version)

Feel free to download and complete the assessment. I've also created digital versions that will send you a PDF report: bit.ly/DoWithNotToScorecard (36 Question 'Deep Dive') bit.ly/DoWithNotToLite…

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In our September newsletter, we explore #relational #policymaking, rewilding healthcare, #evaluation, and more... 🗞️ Read the full newsletter: mailchi.mp/relationship... 📥 And subscribe to receive future editions directly in your email inbox: eepurl.com/h573kP

RESOURCE: Early Years Educator & Tapestry's guide on communication and connection sets out good practice for creating and maintaining effective relationships in the Early Years Foundational Stage and promoting an equal partnership between settings & families: education.tapestry.info/articles/the...

Do you know we recently launched a 'Pattern Library' for relationship-centred practice? It's a community-built wayfinder supporting you to navigate common challenges in relational work, featuring insights contributed by the community of practitioners. 🧭 relationshipsproject.org/pattern-libr...

In this blog, we argue that the approach the government takes to overhauling our creaking #SocialCare system in the coming year will provide vital insight into whether it will in fact pursue a meaningful project of relational public service reform: relationshipsproject.org/a-season-for...

In part two of our 'A season for change?' series, we discuss how the government’s emerging public service reform agenda could make a guiding focus on the power of human relationships a core feature of how the modern state works: relationshipsproject.org/a-season-for...

A season for change? In this 3-part series, Rich Bell explores the possibility & pitfalls of #relational reform under the Burnham government. 🍂 Part one explores the possibilities of #devolution: a necessary but insufficient condition for relational reform: relationshipsproject.org/a-season-for...

As the Burnham government aims to 'rewire the state', Koen Bartels argues this will only be achieved if it embraces relational policymaking, and details what this might mean in practice: relationshipsproject.org/to-rewire-th...

Positive relationships at school can play an important role in student wellbeing. 🏫 In this article, Trynia Kaufman, author of 'Overcoming the School Trauma Cycle', shares practices backed by neuroscience for strengthening teacher-student relationships: childmind.org/article/buil...

Want to connect with others interested in relationship-centred practice? Come along to Time Together: a space hosted by the Relationships Project for those in the field to share a bit about each other’s work, make new connections, and explore areas of shared interest: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This month, our Relational Funders cohort turned their attention to #evaluation – with the challenge of examining current practices and what a future could look like that better considers both grant makers and holders. Read more in our latest blog: relationshipsproject.org/learning-out...

Sachin Jain, an emergency physician, highlights a critical flaw in US healthcare: its over-reliance on complex metrics while neglecting basic patient relationships. 🫀 His proposed solution? Make sure every patient knows the date of their next primary care appointment: www.forbes.com/sites/sachin...

In this thought-provoking piece, palliative medicine doctor and qualitative researcher Sarah Yardley asks what might happen if we stopped designing #healthcare around the illusion that we can control #uncertainty – and started designing it around #solidarity: relationshipsproject.org/rewilding-he...

Could a highly supportive chatbot help us feel less lonely? 🤖 A 2026 study offers an interesting answer: not as much as another human... doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

You can now watch David Robinson's keynote speech on why relationships matter at Stronger Things 2026: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlGv... The annual festival by @wearenewlocal.bsky.social brings together hundreds from public services, the third sector and beyond to shape conversations that matter.

#StrongerThings2026 Sir David Robinson's Keynote address: a place called us

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The Relationships Map is a directory of brilliant individuals and organisations across the UK working towards a more relationship-centred future: relationshipsproject.org/the-relation... If you believe in the importance of relationships, please put yourself on the map: airtable.com/shr6pVk5hFEH...

Building a culture of #belonging is not just a 'nice-to-have'. Grant Oliphant, CEO of The Conrad Prebys Foundation, shares his insights, and describes what it means to be in 'a true relationship' with another: www.prebysfdn.org/stories/blog...

Why belonging? It’s the easiest and hardest thing we can address.

The Conrad Prebys Foundation CEO Grant Oliphant discusses his early experience of belonging in San Diego with the of Macedonio Arteaga.

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“What’s been overlooked is the Indigenous perspective of relationality. It is the understanding that happiness is only possible in community, when we cultivate our relationships toward all kin, from human to more-than-human, and our living Earth.” - Dr. Yuria Celidwen

What is it about human-to-human relationships that can’t be replicated by technology? What is unique to our relationships? relationshipsproject.org/what-is-unique-to-human-relationships/

New research suggests that NHS trusts with higher levels of empathy have better patient outcomes and improved staff wellbeing, and also benefit financially: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Le-Anne Goliath explores how teachers' #relationalpractice can sustain students' participation in the classroom, and invites secondary schools to take part in her doctoral research on classroom conditions that support participation and student belonging: relationshipsproject.org/present-on-t...

Our Relational Funders cohort has been exploring the potential to not only learn to navigate permissions more skilfully, but to reshape them – in other words, how funders can help lift future organisations out of the rules that constrain us: relationshipsproject.org/learning-out...

1) We've just published the June edition of our newsletter. It's jam-packed with events for your diary, and recommended reading, listening and watching from across the relationships field. Plus something we've been working on for a while: How to have challenging conversations in relational ways