Nurturing Networks – New Tools and Resources
27th June 2023
Nurturing our Networks and Ourselves as Network Weavers
The Health and Social Care network recently had a network weaving and peer support session with Hilda Campbell from COPE Scotland.
At this session in April, Hilda outlined some tools and resources to help us with network and partnerships. New resources have now been launched to help leaders and others in the third sector (and beyond) as they build and seek to sustain their own networks and partnerships.
Hilda provides details below.
Networking Resources
COPE Scotland with support from the Supporting Q Connections Funding were able to connect with colleagues working in health and social care across the UK and Ireland and beyond, to explore the challenges to networks and for those in a network leadership role. Listening and sharing learning through many conversations, peer assist sessions, active learning sessions we were able to adapt and develop the original materials created in the Network Weavers Handbook into a new suite of resources, building onto the excellent work done by so many others. These new resources include:
The Curiosity Poster
A simple tool to invite curiosity about learning more about network effectiveness, network leadership and network weaving.
A tools and resources booklet offering ideas on places to find out more about the issues identified. This includes:
– Curious to learn more about Network Weaving?
– Building relationships
– Evaluating your Network
– Finding the time
– Generating Ideas
– Hassles with Hierarchies
– Ideas to action
– Inclusivity and Diversity
– Network Mapping
– Peer Support: asking for and receiving help as well as offering it.
A reflective workbook offering a CPD log for those leading networks. Contents include:
Chapter one: Ideas on how to use this workbook
Chapter two: Understanding my role as a Network Weaver
Chapter 3: Relationship with myself and others
Chapter 4: Understanding my Networks
Chapter 5: Motivating & energising my Networks and me
You can download these materials here.
For anyone interested in finding out more about the Q Community, visit this link. There is also a special interest group within the Q Community which offers active learning sessions on the materials and other issues around networking. Guests are welcome: Nurturing and Weaving Networks SIG.
For more information including if you are interested in workshops to explore using the materials, please email admin@cope-scotland.org Nurturing our networks and ourselves matter to help navigate us to a place which is kinder, fairer, and healthier for all.
“It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles Darwin