Subject: Feature in our 2025 national conference line-up

It's time to talk about our 2025 Staf National Conference. The highlight of our events calendar, it's also your opportunity to share innovation and best practice with peers.


Following last year's sell-out event, we are back at the Stirling Court Hotel for 2025 with Thriving Together in Complexity: Deepening relationship-based practice with young people at the heart on Tuesday 11 November.


With Staf's unique blend of workforce input alongside the voices of care experienced young people, now is your chance to showcase your work as part of the programme.

 

 

Call for submissions


We are now inviting submissions for content from anyone who wants to share good practice, innovative and exciting projects, and emerging or current research that contributes to a collective vision for brighter transitions and connected lives. 


We welcome your contributions that explore: 

  • How we nurture connection and trust in risk-averse, task-driven or resource-stretched environments

  • Supporting the emotional labour of the workforce, and creating conditions that allow people to care and be cared for 

  • Practice that truly centres young people’s voices and experiences 

  • Innovative, relational approaches that challenge fragmentation and offer hope 

  • Creative expressions (eg art, poetry, film, performance) of what belonging, trust and care can look like


Session formats


We are open to a wide range of contributions, including: 

  • Interactive workshops

  • Practice-based presentations  

  • Creative performances (eg spoken word, music, theatre, visual art)

  • Short films and digital stories 

  • Exhibits, installations and reflective spaces


How to submit 


Please send us a short proposal (maximum 300 words), including: 

  • Title of your session or contribution

  • Description of what you will share and how 

  • How it connects to the conference theme


Submit your proposal to pamela@staf.scot by Friday 29 August.


If you would like to talk through an idea before submitting, we would love to hear from you. Let’s reflect, reconnect and reimagine - together.

 

 

About our conference


In a landscape where services and systems increasingly feel fragmented, stretched and complex, relationships remain our most powerful tool for change. For those working with care experienced young people - and for young people themselves - it is the strength and safety of relationships that can transform lives. 


Our 2025 conference will bring together practitioners, policymakers and care experienced young people to explore how we can: 

  • Sustain and deepen relationship-based practice in the face of complexity and systemic pressure

  • Create space for connection and trust in environments that are often task-driven or risk-averse

  • Recognise and support the emotional labour of the workforce, and create conditions for people to care and be cared for

  • Centre the voices and experiences of young people as experts in what connection and belonging truly mean

Rooted in Staf’s vision of a Scotland where care experienced young people’s wellbeing and success are at the heart of everything, this conference is a shared space to reflect, reconnect and reimagine what is possible.


Tickets are available now at the special early bird rate, with a further discount for Staf members. Tickets go quickly and we always sell out, so reserve your space today.

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