In this piece for Joining the Dots Sam Boyd – Head of Policy, Impact and Communications at Switchback – describes the transformational …
Joining the Dots: Relationship-Centred Public Services
In this piece for Joining the Dots Ray Shostak considers the “enabling conditions” for developing relational practice and suggests a framework for …
Joining the dots: Wallpaper and relationships
In this contribution to Joining the Dots, The Relationships Project Founder David Robinson reflects on the importance of visual clues …
Joining the Dots: Relationships and their impact on Community Hubs
In this contribution to Joining the Dots Arvinda Gohil discusses relationship building in local communities and the importance of organisations …
Joining the Dots: Who is helping who? Co-production and professional boundaries within social care services
In this piece Joining The Dots, Nick Andrews discusses the true nature of co production and how good support is founded in, …
Joining the Dots: Politics as usual or a new beginning?
In this Joining The Dots blog (written back in the days when parliaments sat and terms were predictable, which is …
Joining the Dots: Finding and keeping a home
In this contribution to Joining the Dots, Maeve McGoldrick discusses the importance of relationships in meeting the needs of the 170,000 people …
Joining the Dots: My journey with the Campaign to End Loneliness
In this Joining the Dots blog, In this blog Laura Alcock-Ferguson, the founding Director of the Campaign to End Loneliness, …
Joining the Dots: Everyday Love
In this Joining the Dots blog, Linda Woolston offers a humane and insightful reflection on the role of love …
Joining the Dots: Time for ‘relationship-centred government’? How about it Mr Johnson?
In this Joining the Dots blog, David Robinson, who leads the Relationships Project, challenges the UK’s new Prime Minister to …
Joining the Dots: Digital technology isn’t the enemy of warmth within services
In this Joining the Dots blog, Shift’s CEO (and dad to a 3 year old) Nick Stanhope explores ways in …
Joining the Dots: Practicing Kindness
In this Joining the Dots blog contribution, Ben Thurman reflects on the tensions between kindness and risk, relationships and professionalism, …
Joining the Dots: Building Intergenerational Connections
In this Joining the Dots blog contribution, Sam Dalton looks at the gap in intergenerational relationships in today’s society, and …
Joining the Dots: Embracing the Mess to do What’s Best for People
In this contribution to Joining the Dots, Toby Lowe and Dawn Plimmer discuss funding, commissioning and managing services in a world where …
Joining the Dots: In praise of small everyday relationships
In this Joining the Dots contribution, Steve Wyler discusses the concept of conviviality and the importance of shared spaces where small …
Joining the Dots: The gift through the fence
In this Joining the Dots contribution, Clare Wightman discusses the importance of relationships in removing stigma and reducing exclusion. Clare is CEO …
Joining the Dots: Caring for Carers
In this important and moving piece for Joining the Dots, David Grayson examines the caring relationship and proposes a “new social …
Joining the Dots: Relationships, A Transformative Power
In this Joining the Dots piece, Thomas Neumark shares his learning about relationships from a personal as well as a professional perspective. …
Joining the Dots: The Measurement Challenge
In this Joining the Dots blog series, Immy Robinson – Research and Innovation Lead at Shift – explores some of the knotty …
Joining the Dots: Tending the Spaces
In this Joining the Dots blog series, Michael Little reminds us that relationships are hard won, not always positive, and inevitably influenced …
Joining the Dots: We can do this, we’re doing it now
In this Joining the Dots blog, Shift board member and community worker David Robinson shows what a relational approach looks …
Joining the Dots: Relationships in the Workplace
In this Joining the Dots blog series, Rufus Olins reflects on the importance of data in making the case for a more …
Joining the Dots: Together We Create Community
In this Joining the Dots blog series, Iona Lawrence offers a personal reflection on what relationships mean to her. Iona was the founding …
Joining the Dots: A Common Field
The Relationships Project is working with others on sharing and discussing ideas. We hope this work will ultimately help to …