We are committed to care, compassion, joy, hope and change.

The dots: connections for change is the new social agency from Ellie Hutchinson. Ellie is part of the collective, an intersectional feminist research and facilitation group based in the UK. She is a PhD student looking at feeling better after violence, a mum and a romance writer. She enjoys dance routines, sea swimming and collaging.

She is committed to experimentation and learning out loud. This space will undoubtedly change and evolve as we develop, so please do check back as our learning and approach shifts and grows.

We created the dots: connections for change as we know that change doesn’t happen in silos. Our approach blends work across sectors and spaces. We join the dots between different social issues and different practices. We draw on arts-based research methods and social trauma-informed approaches to wellbeing. We’ve worked on mental health, domestic abuse, poverty, inequality, online worlds, participation and co-design, community development and individual wellbeing.

We know that we need to support spaces for dreaming, imagination and hope as it is through hope that change can happen.

We don’t think the solutions are easy, and we know that complicated issues require complicated responses. But we are committed to holding these conversations with care, compassion and joy. We don’t offer safe spaces, but safer spaces, where we hold space for getting it wrong, getting it less wrong and trying again. We approach our work with human-ness, and all the messiness that brings- pleasure, happiness, anger, hope, laughter, sadness. All of it is welcome here!

We join the dots and find the connections for change.

Ellie