Oasis Foundation

26/10/2026

💬 “The number one word for me is ‘kindness’. The Windsor Leadership Dialogue just has an aura of compassion, acceptance, and openness.” – Dom Dwight

⭐ Dom Dwight is Director of Communications at Anthropy UK and a former marketing and communications leader at Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate. He reflects on how the Windsor Leadership Dialogue surprised him, bringing together leaders from the charity, military, faith and other sectors. Through conversations with people whose experiences differ from his own, he found himself being gently pushed beyond his comfort zone and into new ways of thinking.

At Oasis Foundation, we're proud to support the Windsor Leadership Dialogue through sponsorship and bursaries, helping leaders from a wide range of sectors take part in this unique experience.

In this short film, Dom reflects on what makes the Dialogue different from other conferences and leadership events. He describes the experience through four words: kindness, surprise, richness and trust. From the quality of attention people give one another to the humbling and energising experience of being surrounded by centuries of history at St George's House, he finds an atmosphere that invites a different kind of reflection.

For leaders in business and beyond, the Dialogue offers something rare: the chance to connect across sectors, encounter unfamiliar perspectives and discover new possibilities together.

🎥 Watch the full conversation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C68cd_JdRc

Seeking space to think, listen and connect? Get in touch to find out more.

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07/09/2026

🎙️ What does positive social change mean to you?

We’ve been asking our partners to share their perspectives on what positive social change looks like in a world of uncertainty and constant change.

Sam Anderson is a long-time Oasis Human Relations Associate, Founder of award-winning Scottish youth work charity The Junction, and former Co-Chair of Social Action Inquiry Scotland - an innovative, interdependent inquiry into what helps and hinders social action in Scotland.

In this video, Sam reflects on the importance of honest and curious connection: learning about ourselves while encountering others, as conditions of positive social change.

With Sam, the Foundation co-led the Prefigurative Social Action Inquiry, exploring what it means to practice the future we want to create.

🔗 Read more about the Scottish Inquiry’s learnings: https://socialaction.scot/

🌇 Learn more about the Prefigurative Social Action Inquiry: https://www.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/oasis-foundation-the-future-in-practice-a-look-inside-prefigurative-action/

🚀 And explore more perspectives on positive social change from our partners:
https://oasissocialchange.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/client-stories/what-does-positive-social-change-look-like-in-this-day-and-age

16/08/2026

🌱 How much can a small intervention really change?

In his new blog, the Director of Oasis Foundation Chris Taylor reflects on how his understanding of social change has evolved over four decades of work.

Numbers and goodwill aren’t enough. Chris’s view has shifted from seeing change as about mobilising enough people behind the right cause, to thinking about social change as a subtle art of sensing, timing and moving with shifts in the wider system.

Drawing on insights from his own Tai Chi practice to emerging possibilities in the more-than-human world, Chris asks what it might mean to pay closer attention to the forces already shaping change around us.

"This makes significant, meaningful social change a subtle art: knowing when things are over-extended, out of balance, unrooted. And being able to apply 'the power of four ounces to move a thousand pounds.'"

What might become possible if we became better at sensing where change is already emerging - and finding the moments when a small intervention can create a much larger shift?

Read Chris’s new blog: Social Change as a Subtle Art 👇
https://oasissocialchange.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/blog/social-change-as-a-subtle-art

01/08/2026

💬 "I coach a lot of CEOs in the education sector, and one thing they never have is thinking space." - Dame Sally Dicketts DBE

⭐ Transformative leadership begins not only with action, but with the space to reflect, listen and see differently.

At Oasis Foundation, we're proud to support the Windsor Leadership Dialogue through sponsorship and bursaries, helping leaders from a wide range of sectors take part in this unique experience.

In this short film, Dame Sally Dicketts DBE - senior leader, experienced leadership coach, and Associate Director of Oasis Human Relations - reflects on why the Dialogue offers something many leaders rarely have: time to think.

She describes the Windsor Leadership Dialogue as a unique, thought-provoking and inspirational experience, where the setting and the quality of dialogue create space for deeper reflection, fresh perspectives and renewed purpose. For leaders navigating complexity and change, that opportunity to pause can be transformative.

As Sally says, "It makes you and your organisation much more vibrant."

🎥 Watch the full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUKN6d6C-k

👉 Learn more about the Windsor Leadership Dialogue here: https://www.windsorleadership.com/

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20/07/2026

Adam Ogilvie's experience is a great example of why Oasis Foundation is proud to fund bursaries for the Coaching with Head, Heart & Soul programme with Oasis Human Relations.

Supporting people who are leading change in their communities means investing not only in organisations, but in the leaders themselves. As Adam, CEO Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, shares, developing his coaching skills through professional, accredited coach training has helped him build greater confidence, deepen his self-awareness, and create more space for others to grow.

If you're a leader or manager working for social change and financial barriers have put this programme out of reach, our bursaries are here to help.

The next programme begins in October 2026. If this sounds like you or someone in your network, we'd love to hear from you.

👉 https://oasiscoaching.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/bursaries

29/06/2026

⏩ What might social change need from us today?

The Oasis Foundation, alongside Oasis Human Relations and partners, is launching ⭐ Oasis Social Change ⭐ - a hub for our shared commitment to social change.

https://oasissocialchange.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/

The work of Oasis Social Change does not seek to offer the answer. Instead, it reflects a particular set of questions and practices emerging through decades of work - alongside people, communities, and organisations engaged in social change.

🌄 One distinctive aspect of our approach is creating spaces for learning, reflection, dialogue, and experimentation, especially when the challenges we face are complex, uncertain, and resistant to simple solutions.

This includes:
• Creating generative spaces where people can make sense of complexity together rather than in isolation.

• Weaving rather than leading – acting as convenors, connectors, facilitators, and companions rather than experts with predetermined answers.

• Bridging the systemic and the situated – holding the bigger picture while remaining grounded in relationships, places, and lived experience.

• Treating imagination as a source of resilience and possibility, especially in difficult times.

• Practicing the future now by experimenting with hopeful alternatives in the present.

↪️ We'd love to hear what resonates with your own experience of social change work.


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21/06/2026

For nearly forty years, Oasis Foundation and Oasis Human Relations, alongside many partners, have supported people and organisations working for meaningful social change.

Alongside this practical work, we have continued to ask an important question: what enables change to be sustainable, regenerative, and transformative for individuals, communities, and systems?

Over the last decade, this inquiry​ has become increasingly central to our work.

Today, we are proud to launch Oasis Social Change - a new home for learning, reflection, dialogue, and collaboration at the cutting edge of social change.

Bringing together ideas, resources, projects, and communities of practice, the site is designed for those seeking to navigate complexity and contribute to a more just and regenerative future.

We'd love you to explore the site and let us know what resonates.
https://oasissocialchange.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/



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21/06/2026

Many of us working for social change are carrying difficult questions.

How do we keep going when progress feels fragile?
How do we stay hopeful without pretending everything is fine?
How do we create meaningful change in a world that feels increasingly complex and uncertain?

Over the past few years, these questions have become increasingly central to our work at Oasis Human Relations, in partnership with Oasis Foundation and partners.

Today, we're delighted to launch Oasis Social Change – a new home for learning, reflection, community and practice for people working towards a more just and regenerative future.

We don't believe anyone has all the answers. But we do believe that when people come together to learn, reflect and experiment, new possibilities emerge.

We'd love you to explore the site and let us know what resonates.

https://oasissocialchange.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/

13/05/2026

✴️ We recently had the privilege of contributing to the 2026 Windsor Leadership Dialogue at St George’s House, Windsor Castle.

In a time many are calling the “Never Normal”, shaped by constant disruption, uncertainty, and deep systemic change, dialogue is essential - staying grounded and growing together.

The Windsor Leadership Dialogue allowed a space to pause, reflect, and think collectively.

At Oasis Foundation, we’re proud to support the Windsor Leadership Dialogue through bursaries and sponsorship, helping enable a wider range of leaders to take part in this important work.

🕯️ The Dialogue brings together people living these questions every day:

• How do we lead amidst ongoing disruption and uncertainty?

• How do we stay grounded and sustain ourselves, and others?

• Where is the balance between awareness and overwhelm?

• What new possibilities might emerge through breakdown and change?

One of the leaders attending was Natasha Barley, CEO of Sailor's Children Society.

Following the Dialogue, we recorded a short reflection with Natasha on what it meant to step into this space, what she experienced, and what she’s taking forward into her leadership.

👉 Watch Natasha’s reflections below to get a sense of what the Windsor Leadership Dialogue is really about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkCjaSJplJY

If you’re navigating complexity, holding responsibility, and sensing that leadership is asking something different of us right now, get in touch with the Windsor Leadership Dialogue.

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23/04/2026

🌊 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 🌱

Are you leading or managing in the third sector, working towards social change or justice?

Would coaching support make a difference, but funding isn’t available?

✨The Oasis Foundation is offering fully funded bursaries for 12 hours of 1-1 coaching with an experienced Oasis Human Relations coach.

This is a chance to step back from the day-to-day, reflect deeply, and explore the challenges, questions and possibilities that come with leading change - in a space that centres relationship, care and transformation.

🔗 Apply here: https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/WoCCpk

Your response would be greatly appreciated.