Schools and colleges need to create systems which are flexible and responsive to changing guidance and meet the need of everyone in the community. The crisis has demonstrated schools’ central role in the community as well as the rich depth of education they provide including and beyond the curriculum.
Boingboing has a whole school approach to resilience. We use evidence that structural inequalities impact on resilience and need to be addressed alongside teaching someone to behave resiliently. This means thinking ahead about how inequality might affect someone and mitigating the risks or protecting good things in their lives. Saturating the school environment with resilience-building opportunities can be done by planning ahead, creatively finding ways to involve and consult pupils, staff and parents and making sure that resilience is everyone’s business.
Download our free return to school guide to find out more of our top tips for enhancing a resilient climate in school during the Covid-19 crisis through a whole school approach.
24th November – Transformative Conversations Workshop with Blackpool Activist Alliance
Join the Activist Alliance and the Ella Baker School of Organising as we reflect on how we can successfully engage with ‘difficult’ conversations with people who do not share either our values or our moral frames in this Transformative Conversations Workshop.
Ready, Set, Resilience
Ready, Set, Resilience is a workbook and supporting guidance created to support young people’s resilience aimed at year 9 students. It uses mixture of activities which support individual resilience (beating the odds) and activities to support changing the odds like activism.
A PhD internship
This blog gives insights into a novel internship in which an undergraduate student from Quebec joined forces with Boingboing and a Phd student at the University of Brighton. Esme and Viktoria offer some top tips to anyone wanting to do an internship and also give a fascinating account of their partnership.
More Than Words: Supporting effective communication with autistic people in health care settings
Over several months our autistic CSRJ and Boingboing colleague, Dr Gemma Williams, worked with a stakeholder group to co-produce some guidelines for communicating well with autistic people in healthcare settings.
Activism is for everyone – and it’s essential for building resilience
I stood there on a warm August day with a sense of hope. People of all ages had come together for Make A Change, the inaugural launch event of the Activist Alliance in Blackpool. And it seemed to have come at just the right time. Things seem to be going from bad to...
Making Our International Resilience Revolution Conference Accessible
Hi, this is Lisa and Mirika and recently we’ve been focused on improving accessibility for the International Resilience Revolution Conference which took place at the end of March. It was a hybrid event, with one day in Blackpool in person (but also live streamed...
The value of the friendship model of volunteering
An intergalactic exploration of all the different types of value created through the friendship model of volunteering, as championed by the Resilience Revolution in Blackpool.
Submission of evidence: Children and Families Act 2014
Read our submission to the House of Lords’ inquiry into the Children and Families Act 2014.
Our thoughts on co-production
Our Co-productive Thoughts National Co-production Week 2022 took place from 4 to 9 July. Back for a seventh year, it marks a celebration of the benefits of co-production, highlighting good practices and promoting the contribution of people who use services and carers...
