Festival of Learning wrapped, Future Voices launch & more in our June Update
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....And breathe! Last Thursday marked the end of our inaugural Festival of Learning. Eight days of masterclasses, learning lunches, wellbeing, and a keynote all?harnessing the insights of leaders with lived experience.?Thank you to?everyone that came along.? It is the first time we've run this event and it's been brilliant to get feedback like this:
"The Festival of Learning was so inspiring and?definitely needed. It provided a platform for people nationally to come together, learn from each other and it really sparked some great learning that I can take with me. It was so valuable and we need more please!"
We've had a huge influx of sign ups to our newsletter this month and so if this is your first one, we want to welcome you today. ?We send a monthly update sharing our news and?things we think should be on your radar.? We also invite you to share with us projects that?we should include.??
This month?we?launched our Future Voices training programme, now in its third year. Our partnership with the Voice of Domestic Workers to support a network of migrant domestic workers to become confident public spokespeople. A huge news story broke last week of Britain’s richest family sentenced to jail for exploiting staff in Switzerland. These stories are all too familiar for the Future Voices network, but show the importance of their voices being heard to call for better rights for migrant domestic workers. More on the 2024 Future Voices programme below.
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Our Festival of Learning 2024 wrapped
We welcomed 275 delegates to?24 sessions - 31.5 hours of learning - covering a range of topics to help?develop skills and confidence, get new ideas and inspiration, connect people?and to centre lived experience expertise in everything we?do.? There was a great energy throughout the festival, within the zoom rooms people were connecting, sharing ideas, asking brilliant questions from our speakers. Our Charity Meetup event in London gave the chance for people to meet others in person, and our speakers inspired?everyone.??If you came to the Festival of Learning and haven't filled in the feedback from we really appreciate you doing this here.?
"I would never have been able to attend in person, so this format was excellent and accessible. I’m already utilising tips and encouragement, priceless."?
Missed the Festival of Learning? Get access to the recordings
Hosting the Festival of Learning enables us?to support organisations to develop their skills and confidence, many more than we would be able to deliver individual training for.? We have been approached by people saying that they missed the Festival and asked how they can access the sessions.? With that in mind, we want to?enable more people to be able to access all of the learning from the eight days.? If you register for a Festival of Learning place now, you will receive an email to access the recorded sessions, transcripts and key learnings when they become available. This is for a low cost fee to make it accessible. Learn how to pitch opinion pieces, how to coproduce media, plan successful campaigns, use social media for advocacy and more.? If you want to get access for your whole team do get in touch [email protected]
Future Voices 2024?
The Voice of Domestic Workers is an education and support group calling for justice and rights for Britain’s sixteen thousand migrant domestic workers.?Launched in 2022 our Future Voices programme aims to nurture a network?from the Voice of Domestic Workers so that there are a wider number of people who can undertake media opportunities, give public talks, speak to politicians and policy makers and be more prominent public campaigners.?
Future Voices III marks the culmination of our three year collaboration. At the end of this programme, we at Sounddelivery Media will be handing over Future Voices to the Voice of Domestic Workers,?who will deliver the training that they once undertook. This is really important to us, as part of our broader work to equip and support new networks of spokespeople with the skills, knowledge and tools in place to continue their work sustainably and with autonomy.??
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Meet the Future Voices?III cohort.?In their?first workshop, Becoming a Visible Leader, the group was tasked with writing poems starting with the words "I Come From" by a poet, award-winning broadcaster and author Lady Unchained. Here is what they have written, published for International Domestic Workers' Day.
The latest from the Spokesperson Network
Our Spokesperson Network have been busy sharing their expertise in the media, at events and on platforms where they have the power to influence change. One of our network is currently acting as a paid consultant to a high profile television drama who spotted her expertise through a blog she wrote.? Here are some other latest highlights.?
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Things to watch, listen to, and do?
We always try to share creative ways of telling important, but difficult stories and we think this could be just that. 'The Children's Inquiry' is a new?musical telling a true story of the care system, crafted from the voices of the children themselves by multi-award-winning LUNG. Social workers tell Jelicia that she is their success story. Frank is on his eighth foster home. At school no one knows Amber and Angelica are in care. To own their present, these teenagers must first unearth their past. How else can they make a better future now?? Showing?5th July - 3rd August, Southwark Playhouse.
Looked After: A Childhood in Care is the debut book from award-winning broadcaster Ashley John-Baptiste. The book charts his childhood through the care system. This memoir?tells the story of the UK's care provision from the inside in a visceral way - and acknowledges the importance of the key people who helped him turn his life around. Ashley talks about how the small interventions from people in his childhood helped to change his life, and lead him to where he is today.?
Hidden Potential - Unlocking The Door Within: The Importance of Self-Leadership in Creating a Path towards Change and Purpose. This new book from?Michael J McCusker?host of "The Lived Experience Series" Podcast reflects on all of the stories and?insights gained from lived experience leaders he's interview on the podcast and distills them into??eight?core themes to help people become a force for change and leader of influence. Spokesperson Network members Darren Murinas, Amanda Hailes, Lady Unchained and?Steve Arnott have all featured on the Lived Experience Series podcast so we're?sure this is full of powerful takeaways for emerging leaders.
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