Join us to explore the diverse practices and perspectives within our RSA Living Change approach. These are the vital ingredients we all need as changemakers to tackle complex social and environmental problems.
In this monthly interactive events series, we share with you the perspectives and practices that the RSA and our Fellows are using to imagine and realise better futures for people, place and planet.
From long-term thinking to collective action, from participatory futures to regenerative design, join us to discuss the roles they play in our and your changemaking work.
At this event, Colin Briggs (Director of Strategic Planning) and Rebecca Miller (Head of Strategy Development) from NHS Lothian in Scotland will be joined by Ella Firebrace (RSA Innovation and Change Manager) and Riley Thorold (RSA Researcher). They will discuss our joint work engaging NHS staff and Lothian residents in moving towards healthier and happier futures for the organisation and the communities it serves.
Find out about our NHS Lothian Residents Engagement project, which brought together a panel of residents through a series of participatory events, drawing on ‘deliberative’ and ‘futures’ approaches in a distinctive model that could be applied to other places and policy areas.
We will also share insights from the NHS Lothian Public Service Entrepreneur Programme – a six-month journey for 12 NHS staff developing mindsets and skills, and building on their own big ideas for change alongside a wider collective ambition for innovation and transformational change across the organisation.
Presentations from our speakers will be followed by an opportunity for questions and discussion.
We welcome all changemakers who are interested from different fields and disciplines, within and beyond our RSA Fellowship community.
These are hybrid events: you can take part in-person or online. Join us on The Steps in The Coffee House – an opportunity to meet others and grab something to eat or drink before, during or after the event. Or connect to The Coffee House online, from wherever you are in the world, via Zoom.
Taking part
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Taking part in-person
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Taking part online
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Zoom call joining details will be sent out via email in advance of the event.