Description
Care in Conversation is a philosophical course over four 90-minute sessions, offering time for care professionals to think about care. The framework will be broadly (and unashamedly) philosophical and the practice will be conversational.
Thinking, and thinking deeply, can be a powerful tool for transformation in our lives and work. Curiosity for new insights and critical reflections help us to grow personally and professionally. Thinking is often thought of as a luxury, particularly in pressured and challenging environments. However, this course asks us to consider whether we can be better care practitioners from having a deeper understanding of what care is and why we need it.
Through accessible readings and thoughtful conversations, the course will enhance your motivation and professional curiosity by asking questions, challenging assumptions, listening carefully to others, being aware of the relation between the bigger picture and the smaller, and helping to develop the skills of self-awareness, communication, thinking outside the box, team-building and making difficult decisions.
No prior experience with philosophy is needed, just a willingness to participate in conversation and to risk engaging with new perspectives.
Facilitators
Dr Rebekah Howes
Dr Rebekah Howes has 15 years’ experience teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the university sector, and publishing and presenting papers internationally.
In 2010 she co-designed and led the first Liberal Arts degree in the UK, leading the revival of Liberal Arts study in the UK. She brings to Think Learning the strong belief that what and how we learn should matter to us as human beings, and she hopes to continue to develop this sense of humanity in her work with course participants.
Professor Nigel Tubbs
Nigel Tubbs was Professor at the University of Winchester for 15 years after having been a school teacher in West Sussex and Brighton the 1980s and early 1990s. He lead two undergraduate programmes, in Education Studies, and more recently in Liberal Arts, which was the first such programme to be reintroduced into English universities for many decades (having begun life in Ancient Greece with Plato and Aristotle).
As a university researcher he wrote nine books, including Socrates On Trial, which was a New Statesman book of the year 2021. He is currently part of a new venture in higher education called Think Learning.
Who should attend?
Anyone who working across health and social care with children, families and/or adults, who feels that it’s time to care about thinking and is ready to be challenged.
Terms and conditions
This course consists of a series of four small-group online discussions. To allow participants to feel at ease, sessions are not recorded. Missed sessions cannot be refunded.
Event Details
Dates: 4 x 90 minute sessions, 10-11.30am (UK) Thursdays 11 September, 25 September, 9 October, 23 October 2025
Date: 11 September, 2025
Start time: 10:00 a.m.
End time: 11:30 a.m.
Phone: +44 (0)1273 434 943
Email: [email protected]
