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Despite our love of formal training, much of the evidence suggests that learning happens between people and is best facilitated by peers. Creating a learning environment is key to all our work and, although never directly funded, our focus during our work in Newsham Park was to create an enabling network. This meant that we worked hard to foster relationships between different groups within the local community.
These differences in ethnicity, age, and socio-economic status were only reinforced by the ways in which funding was targeted at particular groups or particular problems. To overcome that, we deliberately sought to keep all activities open to everyone, not only on paper but in spirit. We also sought to create a safe psychological environment that enabled people to connect across perceived differences and find common ground between them.
The evidence of the success of this informal network can be found in the number of ongoing friendships between former participants and the extent to which the network-enabled people to share resources, help, experience and advice in ways that did not encourage dependency or foster shame.
The Enabling Network
NEWSHAM PARK
The following organisations and initiatives Tree House is either working to support or aligns with their values around social prescribing, social wellbeing, mindfulness and connectivity.
The following organisations and initiatives Tree House is either working to support or aligns with their values around social prescribing, social wellbeing, mindfulness and connectivity.
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This initiative ran in Newsham Park from x to x. It demonstrated that, by creating an appreciative environment, people will come forward with offers and ideas which you could never have conceived of.
Philosophy in the Pub runs volunteer-led philosophical discussions in pubs across Liverpool and wanted to extend their practice to include those at the margins of society. This resulted in Tree House Liverpool facilitating their access to HMP Liverpool (formerly HMP Walton) and them hosting monthly discussions at the kiosk in Newsham Park. These discussions were initially greeted which much skepticism (though this was not a philosophical stance at first) but, in time, proved to be very popular and well attended.
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