Our NHS is founded on the principles of care, compassion and kindness. In this session, Susy and Richard ask how this kindness deficit became our reality and how as a system, have we stopped caring enough.
Guest speakers Susie and Richard will open up some uncomfortable conversations and invite you to turn towards the harsh realities of this system that we all so desperately love. They will share some of their thoughts and experiences of working across executive teams and organisations and where they have seen a moral vacuum in relation to kindness and speaking the truth.
You will leave the session:
- Having considered what our systems need in order to facilitate more truth, more honesty and more kindness, improving experiences for our teams, our patients and our partners.
- Reflected on the shadow side of kindness.
- Learnt about William Bridges’s model for Transition – encouraging you to take this back into your working and personal lives.
- With understanding as to the story’s, we tell ourselves about the barriers to kindness and honesty (peeling away the old stories of our survival personalities)
- With curiosity and wonder as to what will support you to bring an extra dose of kindness to yourself and those around you.

