This weekend Grow Social Capital will be in Sligo in the Republic of Ireland. We know, we know….it’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it.
Specifically, we are heading to Ireland for the launch of Dublin Conversations (#ConversationsFest), a weekend event like no other for communications professionals; a conference of three halves:
- a time to discover profound new learning, tools, and inspirations
- a space to come together with leading academics and practitioners from around the world to co-create new ways ahead
- probably the best craic of any learned occasion anywhere.
The full programme details can be found here.
For the past five years the Dublin Conversations has engaged with leading academics and practitioners around the globe; held talks, training events, and conversations in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, and the United States. We now distil, curate, and share the collected sagacity, new ideas, and unanswered questions to inform our challenge of:
How do we create a better tomorrow for the communications industry?
The #ConversationsFest weekend will truly embrace its west coast of Ireland location – hosted in the W B Yeats Centre in Sligo – with breakout sessions in two local pubs, an oyster bar, and a traditional Irish milliner’s shop. As we said, it’s a dirty job…
Bottom up
Dublin Conversations believe the answers need to be driven from the bottom up, freely shared, and co-created and co-produced – so no one has exclusive ownership – by a community that cares about creating a better future for a more purposeful future.
Exploring the current insights, processes, and tools from the Dublin Conversations can transform your thinking and doing. Powered by humility we believe we can create an even better, more powerful legacy.
Although it is said that ‘Ireland is the only place in the world where conversation is a competitive sport’ at #ConversationsFest the tone is on purposeful conversations that promote cordial disagreement to grow profound new understandings, wisdom, and conviviality.
There’s an Irish word Meitheal, (pronounced ‘Meh-hill’). It’s an Irish term for a group of neighbours who help each other in turn with farming work, such as harvesting crops or constructing farm buildings – we think it captures the spirit of what we are seeking to achieve at #ConversationsFest.
The full programme details can be found here. For more information email us at hello@growsocialcapital.org.uk.
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