October 14th Zoom (5pm): “Building community health – through systems convening and supporting staff self-awareness’, with Esther Hall”

This Zoom will share a pioneering project that brings together Mindfulness, Systems Convening, the psychology of Adult Development and community/health development – a great example of ‘Psychology for Improvement’ in action…

Register for your place here: https://q.health.org.uk/event/building-community-health-through-systems-convening-and-supporting-staff-self-awareness-5pm-london-time/

More info:
This Zoom features Q member Esther Hall, who will share her work on a Sport England-funded community health development programme in Withernsea, Yorkshire, that used a Mindfulness/adult development programme to help staff be more self-aware, hold more complex views of the world, hear past their own agendas, especially in a community setting. All the things that one would associate with waking up to our later stages of adult development. (Is this the ‘inner journey’ of systems convener?).

Esther ran a programme developed by University of Aberystwyth Mindfulness researcher Dr Rachel Lilley to help with this inner shift. She will share details about the real impact it created, and the interesting dynamics that emerged.

Esther will also highlight the role of ‘Systems Convening’ in the project – and we will briefly compare her experience with the ‘Systems Convening’ efforts in another Sport England-funded pilot project in the same series (in Greater Manchester).