Removing the roadblocks: how can the last crisis help us tackle the next?
Britain is facing crisis after crisis, lurching from the pandemic to the cost of living crisis and a recession, without having healed from the last, and the effects are deepening divisions. Communities that pulled together in the early stages of the pandemic are now pulling apart. Anger and conflict is building and people are exhausted. As charities, public bodies and businesses reflect on what they can do to help in the current crisis, including promoting mutual aid, we’ll be reflecting on what we’ve learnt from the pandemic that will help remove the roadblocks.
We’ll be hearing from our ‘thought leader’ for this cell, Neil Denton, a community mediator and academic from the After Disasters Network who has been working with the Relationships Project on The Sense of Connection, and other speakers who will give practical insights from their own experience, and we hope to hear from you too in the discussion that follows. You can book a place below.
This event is part of a series exploring a question which cuts across the four behaviours in our model for change: how can we remove the roadblocks to a Better Way?
In 2021, we heard that many people at every level can play a part in driving change by:
Challenging and changing whatever stands in the way, including the deep-seated assumptions that can prevent us from being our best selves.
Calling out inequalities and abuses of power, and making sure everyone can participate on their own terms.
Assuming the best in others and seeing difference, conflict and division as an opportunity to pause, seek to understand, and find a fresh way.
But resistance to change is widespread, whether through culture, systems or practices. So how can we get better at overcoming the resistance and removing the roadblocks?
If you would like to reserve a place for this online event you can either fill out our booking form here or contact info@betterway.network.
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