Roots and Routes: Connecting Around Relational Public Services in Ireland

This event is a fantastic opportunity to grow our emergent network face-to-face, build relationships and discover the amazing work taking place across Ireland around relational public services, with the aim to create greater connection and explore synergies.

We are thrilled to announce that Prof Toby Lowe (Manchester Metropolitan University / Centre for Public Impact) has kindly agreed to join us for this gathering. Toby is one of the leading figures behind Human Learning Systems and co-author of Reframing Public Services in Ireland as a Relational Practice. This will be an exciting opportunity to learn from and with him.

What to expect:

• From insights to inspiration: What relational public services are currently taking place in Ireland and beyond.
• Growing connections: Strengthening relationships to co-create an Irish network for relational public services.
• Active discussion: Engaging conversations with others from across the sector to explore how we can collectively grow relational public services in Ireland.

Why we're interested in creating a space for connection: Joan O'Donnell (Systems Being and SCiO - the  Systems Thinking Practitioner Network in Ireland) has been doing lots of work around bringing systemic thinking and practice to human centred systems. Adele O'Neill (Bray and North Wicklow Area Partnership) is currently leading on a Government funded pilot project using HLS to better understand child poverty from a systems perspective, with Gabriel Eichsteller (ThemPra and HLS Collaborative) supporting the adaptation of HLS and learning across local systems. We'd love to bring together anyone else who is determined to promote relational public services to explore how we can best achieve this collectively.