workshops – Noreen Blanluet

A photo of a young lime tree, taken looking upwards along the trunk towards the crown. The sun is shining through the leaves and producing dappled patterns of green.

An exercise in noticing

August 24, 2024August 25, 2024
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In a recent workshop on nature and mindfulness, I set the participants the task to go outside and find something… Read More »An exercise in noticing

A photo of the roundhouse: the walls are covered in a link pink render, and the living roof has grasses and plants growing out of it. There is a wooden veranda around the outside, with half a dozen steps leading up to it. It looks out across trees, fields and hills. From this angle, it seems like a rural setting - hidden behind the roundhouse is the sprawl of the city of Bristol.

Case study: nature and mindfulness workshop

August 23, 2024August 24, 2024
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Who: WeCanMake, a neighbourhood test-space in Bristol for imagining and making new ways to create homes that build social infrastructure… Read More »Case study: nature and mindfulness workshop

Presentation slide covering Values in action; on the left, co-production values, and on the right, what they look like in action. Value all participants, and build on their strengths. - Enable everyone to participate fully (equity); people must feel safe, valued, heard, understood. Develop networks across silos. - Work across boundaries and hierarchies. Pay attention to those outside of traditional systems. Do what matters for the people involved. - Listen to understand people’s context and experience first, before bringing your agenda. Build relationships of trust and share power. - Share ideas, make decisions together, test things, give (and take) honest constructive feedback. People can be change makers, and organisations become enablers. - Use positional power to remove barriers, and change the rules and permissions.

Case study: learning session on power and co-production

July 15, 2024August 27, 2024
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Who: Platfform (the mental health and social change people), as part of the New System Alliance programme of strengths-based learning.… Read More »Case study: learning session on power and co-production

A slide from my presentation describing the challenges and opportunities for researchers working with voluntary sector or cultural sector organisations. On the left: be sensitive to their context With matching statements on the right: offer solutions The challenges are: Funding and resourcing - what can you add so they're not out of pocket (e.g. cover volunteer expenses) Time and capacity - you bring your own time and capacity for this project / event Strategic priorities and objectives - find common ground and aligned objectives (e.g. target audiences) And at the bottom, the opportunities: Lots of goodwill, passion and commitment! - And you bring yours too! (heart emoji)

Case study: learning session on partnership working

May 16, 2024August 25, 2024
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Who: Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities (every year for a week of events in November)… Read More »Case study: learning session on partnership working

A photo across the estuary of the Dyfi river, with a wooded hillside in the background, scrubland and fields closer, and marshland in the foreground. A flock of Canada geese are settled in the shallow water.

Case study: strategic governance workshop

March 25, 2024August 25, 2024
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Who: Dyfi Biosphere Reserve Wales – a partnership of local organisations from the area in and around the Dyfi estuary,… Read More »Case study: strategic governance workshop