Our Approach
The holistic approach we take to forming partnerships and relationships is a bit like curating an exhibition. The role of the curator at a museum or gallery is to allow different objects to come together and create a new and deeper narrative and experience. Another understanding of curating, adapts the traditional language of 'cure of souls', to create Spaces of Hope, which enables people to work together towards the deep and authentic flourishing and wellbeing of everyone in our localities.
This deep and authentic flourishing, we believe is made of the following elements:
This deep and authentic flourishing, we believe is made of the following elements:
- Freedom: the potential we have within us and the ability we have to make that real and tangible. Put another way, taking responsibility, and sharing the fullest possible expression of our personality.
- Relationship: We are in relationship with everyone and everything, from the people we love to the places we live, to the rest of the world as we see it. Relationships help us to understand the freedom that we have positively, in terms of freedom for others, as opposed to freedom from others.
- Service: expressing freedom, in relationship with others is service; the incarnation of our potential as expressions of leadership in the multitude of different ways that this manifests itself.
- Affect: Expressions of service can come in a wide variety of forms, each can be both subtle and significant and are simultaneously synonymous with hope. The principle of affect is a guide to be aware of and sensitive to everything around us. As the pandemic has taught us, the smallest of sources can bring hope.
- Authenticity: Finally, we should consider if the freedom we are sharing through relationship with others and expressing through service that is affective and affected by what is around us, fits within our wider story. This is not an inward sense of authenticity that we decide upon for ourselves, but an outward question for others to answer about whether what we are doing is truly hopeful and hope filled