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Inspiring Keynotes: 

• Introductory Video from Jim Sporleder; The former high school principal from Walla Walla talks about the importance of Trauma Responsive education
• Community is Key; Psychologist Suzette Fromm Reed will help you discover how to build community capacity across sectors

Engaging Panel Discussions

• A Stone Was Cast, and a Healing Culture of Resilience Emerged- Lincoln HS
• The Ripple Effect: Stories of Change Sparked by Paper Tigers. Meet the creative visionaries, researchers, and advocates who paved the way for the trauma-informed movement and inspired the creation of Paper Tigers. Discover how the documentary motivated leaders to create meaningful change in schools, organizations, and communities.

Breakout Sessions 

Church Urban Fund - Whether you’re launching a new initiative or refining an existing one, our team of experts and practitioners from CUF and the Together Network will give advice and examples to help you turn ideas into action. We’ll help create a clear vision, secure funding, and demonstrate your impact to stakeholders and funders.

A training session exploring listening and facilitation skills for People's Assemblies. This session will be a mixture of theory, interactive activites and reflection. Together we will explore:

People’s assemblies through Living Systems vs Traditional Leadership
A range of facilitation styles and methods

Susannah Black Roberts will go deeper into what it means to be human, investigating practical ways in which we can preserve and cultivate our humanity in a world that threatens to make us obsolete. Drawing on the wisdom of Aquinas, Aristotle, CS Lewis and others, Susannah proposes a creative Christian asceticism lived out through everyday practices to challenge the dopamine rush of an AI-flooded world. 

A training session exploring listening and facilitation skills for People's Assemblies. This session will be a mixture of theory, interactive activities and reflection. Together we will explore:

Circle Practice and tools for democratic participation
Understanding conflict in community spaces

A training session exploring listening and facilitation skills for People's Assemblies. This session will be a mixture of theory, interactive activities and reflection. Together we will explore de-escalation and redirection techniques, including role-playing responses to difficult behaviours.

An action-focused assembly to develop national campaigns for change. 

At Community Organisers, we have come to believe that it isn’t enough to focus on the symptoms of inequality any more - we need to tackle the root causes. That’s why we’ve been on a journey exploring the causes of things we hear again and again across our network of Social Action Hubs.
This Summer, we hosted a series of webinars that examined why there’s an increase in foodbank use, unaffordability of everyday items, grassroots climate action and misinformation and disinformation fuelling racial violence.
As part of these, over 100 people heard from experts, activists and campaigners before talking through the problem with other participants and/or doing a ‘problem tree’ analysis together.

Since then, the team at Community Organisers have analysed the conversations and pulled out some themes that appeared lots of times across the different webinars. Now what? This Winter, we will host a series of action-focused assemblies to join the dots between these themes and develop national campaigns for change.

Dignity and Security in Everyday Life | 14th Nov 
Belonging and Division | 28th Nov 
Power and Voice in the Economy | 12th Dec 
Protecting Our Future Together | 16th Jan 

At each event, people will have the opportunity to hear from experts, share stories, explore perspectives and plan actions.

Church Urban Fund - Join us for an hour of reflection on the value of listening to one another’s stories, plus practical ideas and inspiring examples for using stories to bring projects alive, empower communities, and uncover hidden treasures.
Jesus used stories to teach his followers about the kingdom of God and spent time listening to people’s stories. When we take time to listen to the stories of others, and to share our own story, we deepen understanding, strengthen relationships, and transform our imagination about what is possible.

Dan Hitchens will ask what the advance of assisted suicide really means. Dan will address the profound cultural shift signalled by current legislation, marking a transition from the era of Cecily Saunders and the hospice movement to a new age where death is presented as a solution to what some advocates refer to as ‘useless lives.’ Setting the contemporary debate in its historical context, Dan will prompt us to consider how we should respond to this hinge moment for British society.

An action-focused assembly to develop national campaigns for change. 

At Community Organisers, we have come to believe that it isn’t enough to focus on the symptoms of inequality any more - we need to tackle the root causes. That’s why we’ve been on a journey exploring the causes of things we hear again and again across our network of Social Action Hubs.
This Summer, we hosted a series of webinars that examined why there’s an increase in foodbank use, unaffordability of everyday items, grassroots climate action and misinformation and disinformation fuelling racial violence.
As part of these, over 100 people heard from experts, activists and campaigners before talking through the problem with other participants and/or doing a ‘problem tree’ analysis together.

Since then, the team at Community Organisers have analysed the conversations and pulled out some themes that appeared lots of times across the different webinars. Now what? This Winter, we will host a series of action-focused assemblies to join the dots between these themes and develop national campaigns for change.

Dignity and Security in Everyday Life | 14th Nov 
Belonging and Division | 28th Nov 
Power and Voice in the Economy | 12th Dec 
Protecting Our Future Together | 16th Jan 

At each event, people will have the opportunity to hear from experts, share stories, explore perspectives and plan actions.