What we do

The Relational Wellbeing Collaborative provides consultancy and research centred on the relationships that power wellbeing

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We focus on promoting wellbeing rather than addressing illbeing and support partners to embed sustainable solutions to generate wellbeing over the long term.

Wellbeing is experienced by individuals, but it doesn’t begin there. It emerges through interactions among people, and between people and the situations in which they find themselves.

We achieve sustained improvements in wellbeing through building an enabling environment – addressing the underlying conditions which enable people to live happy, healthy and fulfilled lives. Addressing the causes rather than just the symptoms in this way ultimately leads to greater wellbeing and is more cost effective.

We provide a complete approach from diagnosis to solution and assessment of impact.

A three-pronged approach

Our proactive approach to promoting wellbeing combines three key elements: developing wellbeing-improved practice, assessing impact, equity and relationships.

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Developing wellbeing-informed practice

Wellbeing-informed practice integrates:

  • Structures and processes that build positive connections
  • Person-centred practice that enables individuals to flourish
  • Specific initiatives that promote wellbeing

We can help you to design, implement and evaluate strategies to achieve this.

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Assessing Impact

We use objective and subjective data to provide a 360° assessment of your impact. This includes:

  • Demonstrating your impact in three dimensions: what staff and clients can do and be, think and feel, and how they connect with others
  • Using both quantitative and qualitative evidence to show the scale and character of the difference you make
  • Integrating reflection within your programme to generate ongoing cycles of learning and innovation

We can help you to design, implement and evaluate strategies to achieve this.

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Equity and relationships

Wellbeing is powered by relationships which welcome diversity, foster equity and enable individuals to flourish. We support organisations to:

  • Make relationships an explicit part of planning and design
  • Strengthen social connectivity to sustain achievements and generate new initiatives
  • Be alert to connections across conventional silos and potential tensions and trade-offs between apparently disconnected factors

We can help you to design, implement and evaluate strategies to achieve this.

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Our work with the Relational Wellbeing Collaborative has been a journey that has enabled us to reflect on our own practice and consider future steps in nurturing a community in which wellbeing can thrive.

The work has been collective and cooperative, with Sarah and Shreya synthesising a vast amount of data into an easy to understand format.

They were always responsive to our needs and designed a custom-made approach to gathering and responding to data, while their flexible approach meant that they were able to explore emerging patterns in the data during fieldwork.

The final report produced from the work has given us a bespoke systems understanding of our school. We have seen the movement of wellbeing in our school in ways we hadn’t before and the data-informed, research-based yet person-centred approach taken by Sarah and Shreya has given us opportunity for both reflection and growth. It’s exciting to take the next steps.

Stephanie Howdle-Lang, Vice Principal Primary (Wellbeing) Renaissance College Hong Kong, January 2024

How we work

We bring together the rigour of academic training in logic and evidence with a practice of active listening, creative problem -solving and enabling reflexive learning.

We work collaboratively with partners to analyse your specific needs and develop unique solutions to address them.

We offer specialist expertise in wellbeing assessment, gender and diversities, disability, child and youth rights, mental health, and participation.

Learning is at the centre of our practice. We value learning with and from the people we work with, and aim to embed learning within all our processes. Understanding the perspectives of people who are socially marginalised is particularly important to us.

Services we offer

Design, build and support you to implement a comprehensive wellbeing strategy
Monitoring, evaluation and learning using an RWB approach
Coaching and training on how to use RWB effectively in your research, policy or practice
Work with you to clarify your needs and help you identify new perspectives and opportunities
Support you in developing an effective strategy for programme development and organisational alignment, including through a Theory of Change
Generate qualitative and quantitative evidence to show what works, and analyse how and why it works (or doesn't)
Accompany you as a learning partner, including through developmental evaluation
Train your staff or community members to undertake participatory assessment
Facilitate collaborative reflexive learning, including through action learning sets

Our previous partners include:

ESF
UNDP
ADRA
Yoma
Fondation Botnar
NHS

More questions?

Whether you are a practitioner, researcher, or would just like to know more, we will be happy to hear from you.

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