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Supporting staff in the women and girls’ sector

This blog reflects on what some WGI projects were doing to increase support for staff and volunteer wellbeing during the unprecedented early days of COVID-19. It includes guidance, tools and links to a webinar on the subject.

Community
Gender & diversity
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Deepening Creative Practice
Announcing new dates for 2021/22
Arts & culture
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Continuing to learn from the Women and Girls Initiative
Three more briefings are now available from the WGI Learning and impact services.
Community
Gender & diversity
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Does risk awareness change behaviour?
The results of an online survey.
Education & training
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Evaluations and stories

Reviewing the Medici project's role in softening the edges of evidence to map digital inclusion best practices across the EU and beyond.

Knowledge Society
Social inclusion
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Life during COVID Times
Children of Alcohol Dependent Parents.
Children & families
Young people
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Christ Church Business School

A new Memorandum of Understanding formalising our partnership.

Education & training
Organisations
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BREAKING NEWS
Leicester Conference goes ahead in Germany for August 2020.
Unconscious
Group relations
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Coaching with Difference
Working with the overlapping layers of identity.
Leadership
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#16 Social Dreaming Matrix and Review during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 25th June
Social dreaming
About us
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#15 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 22nd June
Young people
Social dreaming
Webinar poster titled "Leading in Uncertainty." Features Eliat Aram, Jennifer Garvey Berger, Sonja Blignaut, and Mary Uhl-Bien. Scheduled for June 11, 90 minutes. Time zones: UTC 1700, BST 1800, EDT 1300, PDT 1000.
Reflecting on Leading in Uncertainty
Sonja Blignaut (Cognitive Edge) reflects on a recent conversation she hosted on leadership.
Group relations
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#14 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 18th June
Social dreaming
About us
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#13 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 15th June
Children & families
Social dreaming
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#12 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 11th June
Social dreaming
About us
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A woman’s place is in the (on-line) world?

This blog from June 2020 considers some of the benefits and disadvantages of technology for women and girls, as online communication became the ‘new normal’ during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Community
Gender & diversity
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#11 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 8th June
Social dreaming
About us
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Tavistock Community 2nd Annual Gathering
is taking place on 29 June, via Zoom.
Unconscious
Group relations
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Medici is live!
Addressing digital exclusion through sharing best practices.
Young people
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#10 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 4th June
Social dreaming
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