Transforming Our Futures

In this Podcast we interview Lynda Brennan who has written a remarkable book called “Looked After Boy.” It raises questions about young people and care, about deprivation and county gangs. We are left wondering whether we have a care system around both children and problem families that is fit for purpose.

For readers Joe the 13+Looked after Boy tackles difficult, but topical, issues. It is a gritty, but moving, tale of a marginalised group; that of children in the care system at risk of involvement in County Lines gangs.

Lynda M Brennan was a drama teacher for many years in schools and Pupil Referral Units. She created Acting Out, a therapeutic drama project working with vulnerable children using creative drama and story. With Islington Virtual School, she trained foster carers and became a foster carer thus gaining insight into the needs of vulnerable Looked After young people. She is now the Artistic Director of Tottenham Theatre - a community-based theatre

In this Podcast we interview Tracey Brown who founded Sense about Science an independent charity that champions the public interest in sound science and ensures evidence is recognised in public life and policy making.

In this Podcast we explore with Hilary Cottam the ideas of changing the welfare state

In this Podcast with Charlie Cotton we discuss if travel can ever be sustainable.

In this time of Covid19 travel has been severely curtailed and this has profoundly affected the travel industry. Travel can congregate people together in such a way that pandemics can spread. They can also be highly intensive in their carbon footprint.

So in a time of climate change when we are trying to reach net zero in greenhouse gas emissions can we justify mass tourism and is it possible that such travel can be sustainable.

In this Podcast we will explore these questions with Charlie Cotton who runs a sustainable travel company. Charlie believes that travel can be organised in such a way that reduces the carbon footprint and thus lessens the environmental impact. Travel organise this way is not costly and can give a positive return on investment.

One of the ways this is done is by using common sense and technology to calculate just how streamlined supply chains are and to do so through stakeholder engagement and with clear transparency.

How successful is this and how authentic sustainable travel can be is something we will discuss in this Podcast

In this Podcast we discuss how Enfield Council lacks a digital strategy but where individual councillors have developed their own.

The digital age has profound implications for local authorities in the way they use big data for community benefit and for the way they communicate and engage.

So why does Enfield do it so badly

This webinar will look at how Enfield can embrace the digital world more effectively as well as look at some examples of local authorities that already have.

We will also look at how individual Councillors have taken things into their own hands and developed innovative ways of working digitally like the Conference recently on Cervical Cancer Awareness organised by two councillors and a recent ex councillor and organised uniquely across Party lines.

Also James Hockney will join us and tell us how he as a Councillor has arranged online surgeries and recently engaged in an innovative online Ward Forum

We will look at how important these initiatives are but also how important it is for Enfield as a whole to have a digital strategy that is central to every Council Department and that engages with community stakeholders and follows good practice.

In this Podcast Katrice Horsley discusses how to unravel the narratives that form us and our identify. Where do they come and how do they form our own story

"Katrice Horsley is an International Narrative Consultant and former UK National Storytelling Laureate.

She has a background in Child Play and Development and worked for many years within Birmingham delivering their City Play Training Course as well as working as a Youth and Community Worker.

She lived and worked in Ghana for 6 years and whilst there delivered and designed training for UNICEF, DFID and UNHCR as well as developing a TV show that used storytelling to help children learn.

She is published by Routledge (The Evaluator’s Cookbook) and is presently working on a workbook about her Narrative4Change Training. She has also written an award winning bereavement resource for the British Heart Foundation that is available online.

Her passion is to ‘give voice’ to those who feel they have no story to tell or who are unable to speak it out. This work has taken her into high security prisons, to areas of high conflict such as Gaza and into the slums of Nairobi.

She has started a podcast Un-Stuffing Our Story about the stories about ourselves and others. "In this podcast we start unravel the narratives that form us, identify where they came from and own our own story."

How my relatives taught me resilience and strength to deal successfully with adversity.

In this Podcast Emma Radway-Bright recounts the most uplifting and inspirational stories from her international childhood and explores how these experiences can shape our identity and ultimately, our life. Emma lived in Africa for 5 years during her childhood before moving to Dublin then south London, then Nigeria and back to London again.

We will explore how childhood experiences can influence our mentality, ambition, decisions through life. How do our experiences observing, interacting and learning from our grandparents influence relationships, our approach to life and our confidence? Emma Radway Bright originally trained as a scientist and is now a counsellor and psychotherapist with a thriving Private Practice based in South East London. Emma works with people who are experiencing depression, stress, anxiety and the general pressures of modern day living.

She specialises in trauma - big and small - and works with people to resolve the emotional, physical and behavioural effects of any trauma they have experienced in the past, or more recently. Emma is Afro-Caribbean and also works with people from similar backgrounds, as she finds that often sharing similar cultural & ethnic heritage; and the context in which we experience life in the UK, helps the therapeutic process.

Following the successful interview of Kate Osamor MP and Feryal Clark MP by EnCaf Youth, here Bambos Charalambous MP is interviewed by EnCaf Youth and members of the Enfield Youth Parliament Ain this webinar.

The young people doing the interviewing have been amazing in both their research and in the way they have questioned their guests So come and join the future generation as they question MPs about their concerns for their future over climate change

In this Podcast we talk to Hayley Pinto about the psychology of Climate Change and why many people although concerned still do not take action. What are the barriers that prevent concern turning into action and what can we do about it.    

Dr Haley Pinto an activist in Norfolk and Chair of CHAIN - a group bringing local groups together around climate change. Hayley will lead this discussion. Hayley has made several presentations on changing psychology on climate change.

In this Podcast one in the Conversations Across Borders series where Nerina Finetto from Traces Dreams and Francis Sealey from GlobalNet21 will interview Maggie Dugan this Thursday December 17th at 11.00am

Here we speak with Maggie Dugan, founder of Inclusive Innovation. Inclusive Innovation designs and delivers programs that unlock people's thinking. Their workshops, innovation labs, hack-a-thons and other convening events are highly interactive, and ultimately lead to economic opportunities for the excluded population in developing countries and regions.

Events like hackathons have become very popular in recent years where people come together to effect change. So how does this happen and how sustainable is it?

Maggie Dugan will discuss with us the meaning of inclusive innovation, cultivating an inclusive environment, inviting the right people to the table, uniting people from different backgrounds to work towards a common goal, the qualities of a world-class facilitator, her efforts to empower women, women mentors in her life, and her dream for inclusive innovation.

Maggie Dugan is an international business and innovation facilitator and has been a leader/presenter at creativity conferences worldwide, including the South African Creativity Conference, Creativity Istanbul, and the Intercultural Creativity conference in Brighton, UK. She has been a facilitator at the CREA European Creativity Conference,