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AMBIT Conference: Minds in Crisis

Join us for the first AMBIT conference since 2017 as we explore 'Minds in Crisis'. Hear from global teams using AMBIT across mental health, education and social care, and be inspired by innovative responses to complex challenges.

About this conference

Our guest speakers, practitioners and leaders from AMBIT-influenced teams across diverse settings worldwide, will share their experiences of 'minds in crisis' and the role AMBIT has played in shaping their responses.

The conference will highlight inequalities and epistemic injustice, fostering reflective discussions on our responsibilities as practitioners in addressing and challenging these issues. Participants will also have opportunities to connect with and learn from others applying AMBIT in various contexts.

Why 'Minds in Crisis'?

From clients of all ages facing growing social, mental health, physical health or educational and occupational crises, to workers in helping services under increasing pressure, and commissioners and policy-makers responding to funding cuts and political change, the AMBIT Programme regularly hears from teams working amid multiple 'minds in crisis'.

We hear from teams in the UK and worldwide about how these minds – clients, communities, workers, commissioners and policy-makers – often face their crises against a backdrop of wider challenges such as social inequity, environmental threats and increasingly polarised political and societal discourse. The relevance of such crises across the system, including clients, teams and networks, to AMBIT lies in their impact on mentalizing and, consequently, on services’ capacity to provide effective help to those they serve.

Aims of this conference

  • To share learning between practitioners about AMBIT-influenced practice in a range of contexts.

  • To reflect on how to apply this learning to your own team’s practice.

  • To deepen your awareness of and capacity to respond to systemic inequalities and epistemic injustice in your practice with children, young people, families and adults.

  • To build connections with others within the AMBIT Community of Practice to support the ongoing development of your team’s practice.

Who should attend?

This conference is suitable for anyone interested in using AMBIT to better understand and address the challenges teams face when supporting people with multiple needs, including those who may have developed adaptive mistrust in services.

It will be especially relevant for:

  • workers from existing AMBIT-influenced teams

  • practitioners and leaders wanting to learn more about the AMBIT approach

  • teams across health, social care, justice, education, community and voluntary sectors.

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