What's coming up

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Starting on Thursday 8th October 2020 we will hold a series of monthly meetings (online via Zoom) in order to connect, share ideas, stories and hopes, and to build our "community of practice". We will also explore what a "community of practice" is, and what we want it to be! The second event will be in November, during the Cornwall Festival of Business, and then we'll fit another one in in early December.

We've learned from experience that these events work best with a friendly, informal but facilitated structure. We'll base our early discussions on two simple questions: Who's who, and what's working. In the future we will have speakers too (if we all think that's a good idea) but for the time being the meetings will be group conversations. Each attendee will have a few minutes to introduce themselves, and the conversation will flow from there. We will also discuss what sort of a community we want to be, and let things evolve.

Communities are diverse and inclusive, and anyone with an interest in wellbeing will enjoy these meetings. You might be an innovator, a practitioner and / or a consumer. You might have experience and knowledge of the private, charity, community and voluntary, or public sectors. Or all of the above. You will have ambitions to explore ways of doing collective wellbeing better.

The old model is broken. Command and control does not work for wellbeing. We need new solutions, and these can only emerge. They can't be planned, or mandated. We need to create them, and we do this by sharing stories and talking about them. This is what communities do. It's unpredictable, but it works. And it's exciting.