Conversations that Challenge: No Wrong Door in homelessness
We will be hearing from Homeless Network Scotland, about the work they have been leading in Scotland looking to embed a No Wrong Door approach across public services.
Strengths Based Learning – Reflective Practice
Strengths-Based Learning Programme session recording: Reflective Practice (07/04) During this session, Dr Sian Edwards emphasised the significance of reflective practice and its benefits for our work environments. Additionally, we gained insights from people who have successfully integrated reflection into their organisations, and they shared the positive impact it has had. You can watch a recording
Conversations that Challenge: Audit and Commissioning – Are they the barriers we think they are?
Traditional ways of working and fear of repercussions can really prevent creative, strengths-based approaches from being explored. But what if it doesn't have to be a barrier?
The Strengths Based Learning Programme. March – September 2024
A series of free learning events through March and September, which are designed to create connections, inspire people to action, and build momentum for strengths-based practice.
System Convening – what’s it all about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anyzHzeeivc System Convening - what's it all about?, October 2023 The New System Alliance, working with Hackney Borough Council and NHS England/the Health Foundation’s Q Community, surveyed people to find out if the Systems Conveners we are aware of are part of an emerging field. We had over 80 responses, the overwhelming majority
Strengths-based, so what?
By Alex Fox, Mayday Trust CEO Strengths-based, so what? There is no shortage of organisations which claim their work is strengths-based, led by people and trauma-informed. Those ideas, all of which are about being people-shaped rather than system-shaped, have taken hold. They have been a positive force in public services and charities at a time when
Place-based working: a trauma-informed approach
By Alex Fox Mayday Trust CEO, Oliver Townsend Platfform's Head of Connections and Change and Grant Campbell Homeless Network Scotland's Head of Partnerships & Consulting. Place-based working: a trauma-informed approach The New System Alliance core partners, Mayday Trust, Homeless Network Scotland and Platfform share a desire for radical system change which shifts services and public
Becoming Open Systems
By Alex Fox, CEO of Mayday Trust. Becoming Open Systems Dr Jean Boulton of Bath University observed at a Northumbria University/ Centre for Public Impact conference on relational public services, that we are all ‘open systems’ not ‘closed systems’: we are impacted by what’s around us and impact what’s around us, in ways which are
Putting relationships first
In this blog, Relationships Project founder David Robinson, and Alex Fox, chief executive of Mayday Trust, reflect on the role that relationships and relationship-building play in creating effective public services and charities, and what connects and distinguishes the two organisations. Putting Relationships First, with David Robinson from the Relationships Project The Relationships Project was born
Through the eyes of a PTS Coach
Through the eyes of a PTS Coach By Meg Forader, a PTS Coach for Mayday Trust. Working in a strengths-based way allows people I meet with to feel valued (because they ARE valuable!) even at what may be their lowest points, when a lot of society is treating them like they have no value at