Connecting with Care

Event

This course is facilitated online, in partnership with Think Learning.

Connecting with Care course dates: 1.30-3pm, Tuesdays 3 June, 10 June, 17 June, 24 June 2025

£249.00

Free UK Postage on Orders Over £40

Description

Connecting with Care is the practice of making connections. Whether through love, friendship, conversation or community, giving and receiving care is something we value as human beings. In professional care contexts the right kinds of connections are essential for sustaining healthy and effective relationships both within teams and in changing the lives of the people they support.

But making connections in personal and professional life is not easy. Connections, new and old, involve uncertainty. They challenge us to find paths between what can and what cannot be controlled. And in some strange way, forming and sustaining relationships asks us to be both more and less of ourselves. There is something ‘philosophical’ about the openness, curiosity and self-awareness that such connections demand of us.

When connection breaks down, so does the quality of care. Disconnection within teams leads to poor motivation, disillusionment, and burnout, while a lack of trust and understanding with those we support can result in alienation and resistance.

How might we think this through? Connecting with Care is a philosophical and conversation based course that gives participants the time and space to think about the nature of connection, both as an idea and as an experience. It considers possibilities for learning and sustaining connections within all of the difficulties of communication in care relationships.

The course will help to:

  • Expand your knowledge and understanding
  • Improve your ability to engage in more meaningful conversations with individuals and colleagues
  • Harness professional curiosity and critical thinking
  • Strengthen self-awareness and emotional intelligence
  • Increase confidence in communicating and asking questions
  • Clarify values and principles

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: 1.30-3pm, Tuesdays 3 June, 10 June, 17 June, 24 June 2025

Date: 3 June, 2025

Start time: 13:30 p.m.

End time: 15:00 p.m.

Phone: +44 (0)1273 434 943

Email: [email protected]

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