Overview
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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Our Approach
At Tree House Liverpool, we make the most of what is already available. We are focused on developing mindful projects and strategies which create connectivity, wellbeing, and resilience for our clients. Whether we are supporting clients through consultancy or generating our own projects and initiatives, our work channels wellbeing through connected development processes.
These are underpinned by the certain knowledge that everybody possesses the innate capability and that all social systems hold untapped capacity as well as hidden assets. Our success has been built not just on what we do but how we do it. We are only happy when we are helping to create places where people are motivated to give their best.
Our Focus
Strategic Development
Helping you to better identify your goals, to resolve systemic problems, to identify and exploit hidden assets as well as secure buy-in from your people, identifying and utilizing their latent capacity.
Project Delivery
Helping you to develop and deliver projects, including challenge and change initiatives, in a way which ensures that there is engagement on a system-wide level, and that resilience and sustainability is factored in from the outset.
Personal Development
Helping you, and your people, make the most of your capacities and those of the people around them. This may take the form of bespoke training and development, work to strengthen and focus teams, or mentoring and coaching work.