Elevate is a scheme run by acta and funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation and WECA. Over the course of nine months, we will train a core group of practitioners to make high-quality and impactful community-based theatre and arts initiatives. Some of the sessions will be open for all to book on to – we advise you follow us to get notified of future sessions too.
What will I do in this workshop?
• You’ll learn a range of games and exercises
• You’ll learn how to adapt games to the needs of the groups
• You will understand when to use a game and how it can benefit you
• Learn how to plan and structure a workshop• Learn the benefits of this work
This seminar will benefit anybody who facilitates groups as part of their work – not just for creative practitioners.
If the price is a barrier for you to attending the workshop, please email [email protected] to discuss how we can help you attend.
People are going back to the office – but they want flexibility about homeworking too. Any organisation serious about attracting and retaining the best talent needs to get hybrid working right. The more successful you are at delivering this, the more engaged and productive your people will be. That’s why a successful hybrid working mix is so important. Employers won’t reap the benefits of hybrid working if they fail to create employee engagement along with it.
What you’ll learn:
This session is particularly relevant to anyone running an SME or those working in HR generalist roles in larger businesses, responsible for introducing hybrid and flexible working. Perhaps you’re a senior manager who wants to get this balance right in order to retain your people. Anyone interested in how organisational culture is changing and where the future of work is going will get useful takeaways from this event.
This talk will be held at Origin Workspace in Berkeley Square. Join us from 12.30pm for tea/coffee and networking, with the talk beginning at 1pm.
About Richard
Richard is an employee engagement and culture specialist and is passionate about building highly motivated and productive teams in both start-ups and larger organisations.
Formerly HR Director and Head of Employee Engagement at Virgin Mobile, he was most recently People Director at sustainable energy provider Pure Planet and developed many effective engagement tactics to make remote and hybrid working work. He also runs employee engagement consultancy, enRich.
He presents at UK and international conferences on the topics of employee engagement, culture and employer branding, drawing on his experiences at Virgin Mobile, Pure Planet and other organisations.
Tickets
Tickets are priced at £15+VAT for BCI members and £30+VAT for non-members. Book your place below!
If you’re looking to reach your audience online, you need to use Instagram in way that makes it easy for your customers and clients to find you, understand what you offer them and how they can work with you and buy from you. Join Lou Chudley for this Wake Up Call which will help you get focused on making the most of Instagram for your business.
This webinar is going to be useful for anyone who is using Instagram to connect with their audience online and wants to learn how they can use Instagram to grow brand awareness and increase sales.
About Lou
Lou Chudley is an Instagram Specialist based in Bristol, and founder of Spark Social. She works with business owners to help them to learn how to use Instagram to connect with their audiences online. Instagram is an ever evolving social media platform so it’s her job to help you to keep up to speed with all the new features and the ways your customers and clients are using Instagram so that you can make the most out of using Instagram for your business.
> See Spark Social’s member profile here
> Follow Spark Social on Instagram
These sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, for the BCI community to share their pearls of wisdom with one another. The half hour webinars will involve a 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute facilitated Q&A, with introductions from the BCI team.
Our community is full of such amazing talent so we’re giving members the stage to talk about things that excite them so they can inspire their peers. The sessions will be a mix of expert tips and tricks and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
Our usual online format is an interactive ‘meeting’ but for this series we’re running webinars so that it’s easy to listen in while prepping for the day ahead or while having your breakfast! Cameras and mics will be off but you can ask your questions through the chat box or submit them beforehand.
Please get in touch with Sian if you’re interested in speaking at a future session.
The Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re interested in becoming a member with BCI, you can read about the membership perks here.
The agenda:
9.00am – Welcome to The Lighthouse Social Summit – September 2022
9.10am – The Value of Social Leadership with Damian Corbet
10.25am – Using Social Media Content to Change the World with Anu Hautalampi
10.30am – Break
10.45am – Social Media Updates with Luan Wise and Andy Lambert
12.00pm – Myths of Social Media with Michelle Carvill
12.30pm – Live Social Media Careers Q&A Panel Session – hosted by Luan Wise with Jaymie-Leigh Baker, Lauren Ahluwalia and Beth Thomas.
1.30pm – Event Ends
The Pitch is one of the UK’s biggest startup competitions, giving startups the support to grow and the platform to raise investment.
Attend the Bristol regional final and watch the region’s most exciting startups pitch their idea to a team of top investors. Startups have just 90 seconds to pitch, then our panel of investors will follow up with questions and feedback.
The pitches will be followed by an evening of networking – accompanied by food and drink.
If you’re a local business owner or interested in the city’s startup scene, this event will help you:
– Network with other startups and your local business community
– Meet investors, and learn what they look out for
– Get inspired by awesome founders
Back for another takeover weekend, Cables & Cameras present: INSPIRED – a packed programme of VR workshops, keynote speakers and short film screenings and previews to celebrate home-grown filmmakers of colour from across the country, hosted by Watershed.
With contributions from one of the UK’s most empowering creative teams, Anthony and Teanne Andrews of the award-winning We Are Parable, guiding audiences on how to engage with international events in Black cinema and Somali feminist art collective dhaqan collective presenting the premiere of the acclaimed Somali film The Gravedigger’s Wife; we’ll be hearing from a plethora of exciting names in a packed schedule across a weekend set to explore Black / POC culture and talent both in front of and behind the camera.
Whether you’re an aspiring filmmaker trying to find your path into the industry, a more established creative interested in finding ways to develop your practice or just interested in discovering films by some of the most exciting creative talent out there, there’s something for everyone.
We’re collaborating with market-leading employee wellbeing platform, Loopin, on our very first event in the South West region!
Whether you’re a seasoned tech veteran or just starting out, you are more than welcome to join us.
For this event we’ve got some incredible speakers lined-up who are renowned in the South West tech scene. They will be discussing a range of topics under the theme ‘Humans vs Tech: Building meaningful connections in today’s hybrid world.’ – (check out the full bios below). This includes interactive discussions around building emotionally and physically diverse tech teams, the importance of connecting beyond the screen, the role of tech in today’s hybrid world, and how tech is supporting employee mental health.
The SocialCode events provide a great opportunity to learn and network with like-minded local techies with complimentary drinks and goodies. Loopin has also lined up the local’s favourite Pizzeria, Flour and Ash, so you can enjoy FREE pizza too! What’s more, if you can’t attend this event in person, you can watch it via a Zoom live stream.
Loopin’s Slack-integrated tool helps support employee wellbeing and mental health, through social connection. Loopin aims to prevent trends of stress and burnout by encouraging employees to check-in with their daily mood and emotions, without fear of judgement.
Loopin is generously holding this event at their headquarters in Bristol City Centre, ideally located just a few minutes walk from Bristol Temple Meads.
Doors will be open, and drinks will be available from 5:30pm.
THIS IS A HYBRID INSTALMENT OF THE SOCIALCODE! THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD BOTH IN PERSON AT RUNWAY EAST AND ALSO LIVE STREAMED FOR ANYBODY WHO CHOOSES NOT TO ATTEND THE EVENT IN PERSON.
EVENT LIVESTREAM LINK CONFIRMED 24 HOURS BEFORE EVENT.
Ben Williams and Antony Thompson (He / Him) – Founders of Loopin – From a new era of work to a new age of wellbeing: The importance of sharing emotions.
During this insightful talk, former Royal Marine Commandos, Leadership Coaches, and Loopin Co-Founders, Ben and Antony, will answer questions around:
Julie Main – Master Principal Solution Architect at Qlik – The Importance of Storytelling with Data
From caveman drawings to silent movies, visual storytelling has been used to educate, engage, and motivate audiences for centuries. The digital age, however, has ushered in a new set of tools and technologies that can be used for visual storytelling.
So what makes a ‘good’ story? Julie will be showing you how you can get your insight into your data, collaborate, get the engagement from others and help to support and prompt decision making.
Amy Lobé (She / Her) – Senior Product Designer at Seccl – Empathy – The Access Tool to Accessibility
Amy will be holding an interactive session all about accessibility. In this talk, you will find out how empathy is the most powerful tool and how to build with accessibility in mind.
Using your own devices, you will be allowing yourselves to experience temporary access needs. You’ll be leaving this talk with a new appreciation for how situational, temporary and permanent access needs impact people’s use of your digital products.
This month’s free online Enterprise Nation meet-up for small businesses in Bristol and surrounding areas is on 31 August at 10am.
Come along ready to share a business challenge or need and the always friendly group of founders will come up with solutions!
The event is hosted by freelance journalist Dan Martin, Enterprise Nation’s local leader for Bristol.
‘Discover SETsquared’ is SETsquared Bristol’s open event where you can find out about their award winning business support programme and meet the team. The next event is Wednesday 28 September from 4 – 5 pm and includes a talk from SETsquared Director, Marty Reid, Entrepreneur in Residence, Rick Chapman and a SETsquared alumni company.
Tech founders or aspiring tech entrepreneurs of all levels and backgrounds are welcome to attend.
Would your team benefit from a commitment to learning about and seeding new ways of organising? If so, join my online course 🤗 The first eight cohorts have been full houses, the feedback has been fantastic (NPS score of 90! Over 70 is ‘world class’), and I can’t wait to go again. The feedback scores (out of five) are:
4.9 – I would recommend the course to my colleagues.
4.5 – I better understand psychological safety & what helps to make a great team.
4.5 – I better understand how to give and receive “brain-friendly“ feedback.
4.6 – I better understand the alternatives to traditional decision-making.
4.7 – I feel more comfortable experimenting with new ways of working in my team.
The next New Ways of Working online course starts on October 19 2022 and the sessions run every Wednesday, 14.25 – 16.35 for five weeks, so wrapping up on November 16.
The course objectives are for you to enjoy your job more and to be an even better member of your team. You’ll learn collaboration and leadership skills, how to hold meetings that don’t feel like a chore, and how to make better decisions by quickly seeking and integrating the wisdom of the group. You’ll learn how to give ‘brain-friendly’ feedback, recognise what’s getting in the way of being a great team, and understand the mindset and power dynamics that help or hinder change.
To do this we’ll borrow from the best sources. These include agile, self-management, organisational psychology, and the most progressive companies on the planet. There’s more detail below in the ‘Course overview’ section.
It’s been incredible to be able to help so many people to experiment with new ways of working in so many diverse organisations, which have so far included: The United Nations, universities, Xero, Accenture, BJSS (tech consultancy), Mencap (UK charity), Shelter (UK charity), Haringey Council in London, Mercedes-Benz, Ofwat (UK government department), The Co-operative Group, The Soil Association, Klarna (fintech company), Jetstack (cloud tech company), Sport Wales, plus a US teaching organisation, an Italian marketing consultancy, a US digital consultancy, a UK AI and machine learning company, a digital studio in Belgium, a UK accountancy firm, and a lovely non-profit organisation in Bristol, my home.
– By far one of the most useful, practical, engaging, interesting courses I’ve been on. Hats off to you, super well thought out, from a practical, mental and emotional perspective.
– The experimenting methodology gives me the opportunity to not only “take a course” but actually practising in the “real world”.
– The benefits to the business have been tangible and resulted in me thinking about work in a very different way.
– I loved having another colleague on the course and would totally recommend others try to do the same… I loved the organisation of the course, it all felt incredibly “slick.” … I loved Marks humble approach, he listened to us all intently and was patient with us when we needed more time on certain things.
– The experiments each week really helped me grow my comfort towards experimenting further. They gave me the perspective of how much needs to be a done, and an eye for what might be ‘bite-size’.
– I loved Marks generosity, he clearly spends a lot of time preparing and introduced me to very cool tools that we are now using in the organisation.
– The depth of experience and further research Mark has done to curate bite sized resource for us to cover weekly, in a No. of mediums, was incredibly satisfying to absorb and kept me engaged over the 5 weeks.
– As a facilitator, you do add quite a bit of magic sauce to holding the space, and your curation of materials is unbeatable.
The course is led by me, Mark Eddleston. I’m a new ways of working consultant, coach, facilitator and Founder of Reinventing Work. Since 2015 I’ve been practising new ways of working and synthesising the mountain of information that’s out there. The New Ways of Working course is something of a greatest hits. We’ll fast forward to the trusted, tried and tested patterns that are found in some of the world’s most progressive organisations.
On this course, you’ll be practising and learning all the way. You’ll get better at listening, teamwork, and self-organising. There will be plenty of required pre-work ahead of each weekly meet online when we’ll reflect on this content together. Throughout the course, you will have the chance to ask questions and form a community on Slack. You’ll become familiar with Notion, where course content is shared, and with Focusmate which will help you to get through the content. You’ll also experience Mural and Liberating Structures.
Crucially, each week you will design an experiment that will be implemented in your own team.
You’ll form partnerships with classmates who will help you, hold you accountable to your experiment and be depending on you to do the same for them. Throughout, you’ll be experiencing some of the best collaboration tools and practises out there.
Week 1: Challenges – identify what gets in the way of great work in your team.
Week 2: Teamwork – we’ll uncover the research into what makes a great team.
Week 3: Mindset & Power – this work requires mindset shifts and clarity around power.
Week 4: Feedback – we’ll learn how to give and get more feedback.
Week 5: Decision-making – we explore alternatives to top-down & consensus.
Throughout the course, you will learn progressive meeting structures that you can pop in your pocket, take back to work and use immediately.
Expect practical, interactive and participatory. This isn’t easy work and it isn’t an easy workload. Each week the format looks like this:
Course materials: Before each live session on Wednesday you’ll use Focusmate to work through the course materials (articles, podcasts, talks and tools) shared via Notion. 2-3 hours.
Live session: We’ll discuss and reflect on what stood out from your pre-work, dive deeper into the topic, and figure out how you’ll apply it at work. 2 hours.
Experiment: At the end of each session you’ll have designed an experiment to try out at work that week. This takes place in your workday so timing is your call.
Accountability partnership: Having committed to an experiment you’ll catch up with a course peer to help each other out and hold each other to account. 1 hour.
Retrospection: Each week you’ll be invited to write a quick reflection. 5-10 mins.
So it’s a weekly commitment of at least 6 hours over five weeks. Some, ideally all, of which will take place during work time.
The five-week course begins on Wednesday, 19 October 2022. We meet every Wednesday from 14.25 – 16.35 GMT, wrapping up on 16 November 2022.
*Please note there is also two hours of pre-course work required before our first live session.
This course is for you if you are:
Dissatisfied with traditional ways of working and know that there’s a better way!
A member of a team – the course design is not suitable for those who are not in a team (sorry solo consultants).
Able to attend all five live sessions.
Prepared to experiment with new ways of working each week in your team each week.
Choosing to attend – and haven’t been sent by your boss!
Open-minded – willing to embrace new and uncomfortable ideas.
Committed and ready for a challenge! This is an intensive course – your hard work and active participation are baked into the course design.
Absolutely clear that there is no one size fits all approach for this work.
£1,000 plus VAT – attending alone.
£700 plus VAT – attending with one (or more) colleague/s.
Your New Ways of Working journey will be more impactful if you have colleagues along for the ride, so you are advised (and incentivised) to bring one or two along.
To secure your place double-check the eligibility criteria ☝️ then send a note to confirm ([email protected]) and that’s it, you’re enrolled!
Please note that cohorts are limited to 14 places.
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