Oasis Foundation

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.

15/04/2026

🧭 2026 Director’s Report from Chris Taylor

At our April AGM, Director Chris Taylor shared a reflective account of the Foundation’s journey over the past year - a period of watching, listening, and re-orienting within a rapidly shifting and unpredictable world.

Since 2021, we have been engaging with what is now widely described as the meta-crisis or poly-crisis: the interwoven social, ecological, and economic challenges shaping our time. Through this lens - and in our work on Navigating the Unimaginable - we have come to see how deeply the global economic system is contributing to conditions of potential collapse.

🔮This raised urgent questions for us as a small, relational foundation: What is ours to do? How can we support meaningful change in a world of radical complexity and uncertainty?

🌳 At our Strategy Day in September 2025, this reflection led to a refreshed understanding of our role in social change - centred on cultivating generative spaces.

These are spaces from which deeper connection can emerge: with each other, with the natural world, and with unexpected inspiration from the unseen. Here, the seeds of social and environmental justice, human dignity, and ongoing transformation can be noticed, supported, and allowed to ripple outward and inward.

We support initiatives that embody this approach - from Rites of Passage for young people, to collaborative social change inquiries, to convenings with earth-based practitioners and Indigenous elders, and to place-based networks building bioregional futures.

📖 Read the Director's Statement in full here:https://www.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Oasis-Foundation-Directors-Annual-Report-AGM-2026.pdf

Oasis Human Relations

07/04/2026

🌿 2026 AGM & Message from the Chair

Earlier this month, we came together for the Oasis Foundation 2026 AGM - a moment to pause, reflect, and take stock of the year behind us.

In her latest annual report, Chair Marion Ragaliauskas shares how the Foundation has continued to evolve its role - holding generative spaces that support and transform people, organisations, and networks working towards social change.

Marion highlights:

🌱 Rites of Passage with oikos International
In 2025, eleven young adults gathered in Galicia for a six-day journey exploring purpose, transition, and what it means to step into adult life in a changing world - with plans to bring this work to the UK in 2026.

🌀 Coaching Bursaries with Oasis Human Relations
We continued to support leaders in the third sector through 1:1 coaching packages, alongside two fully funded places on the Coaching with Head, Heart and Soul diploma.

🏛 Windsor Leadership Dialogue
We supported participation in the 2025 dialogue and are looking ahead to a 2026 international gathering of Indigenous leaders at St George’s House, focusing on leadership for the planet.

🌍 Prefigurative Social Action Inquiry
We were proud to continue supporting this growing community of inquiry - bringing together practitioners exploring how to live the change they seek.

🔗 Growing Practice at the Edges
From Networked Localism to Embodied Practice and the emerging Kindling Space initiative, we’ve continued to seed and support work that explores new pathways for wellbeing, connection, and social transformation.

🙏 A heartfelt thank you to our Trustees, advisors, partners, Oasis Human Relations, Associates, and the wider community - whose time, care, and commitment sustain and shape this work.

📖 Read the full Chair’s report:
https://www.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Oasis-Foundation-Chairs-2026-AGM-Report.pdf

🔗 Learn more about our work:
https://www.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/about/oasis-foundation/