You’re Invited: Bites & Insights – Changing Mental Health Systems & Practice
news | Words Stacey Hemphill | 03 Jun 2025
You are invited to join us for Bites & Insights, a three-part live chat series, diving into the real-world experiences, challenges, and breakthroughs of people working to change systems and practice for the better.
Over the past decade, Innovation Unit have been working with places across the UK to co-design, develop and scale new models of mental health support. Our goal has been to support practitioners and system leaders to collaborate with people using services to grow person centered, strengths based, holistic community powered support.
From scaling Living Well across Greater Manchester and Derbyshire to developing Trieste inspired mental health hubs in York, including a soon to be live 24/7 neighbourhood mental health centre, we’ve helped systems move from vision to delivery.
We now want to share our learning about what it really takes to change mental health systems.
Join us for Bites and Insights, a three-part live chat series, diving into the real-world experiences, challenges, and breakthroughs of people working to change systems and practice for the better.
Each 45-minute session will feature a candid back-and-forth between a facilitator and someone from the mental health transformation community who’s been in the thick of it tackling tough questions and sharing real stories.
What to expect
- 25 minutes of live, unscripted chat between the host and a guest
- 20 minutes of open discussion, where you can ask questions in the chat
- A quick wrap-up email, with highlights and options to stay connected
Changing Practice
17th June 2025
Practice is where the change really happens
Dig into the daily work of shifting how things are done. From role redesign to embedding values, what does it take to make practice effective and meaningful for the people it’s meant to serve?
Connecting with Community
24th June 2025
Balancing authentic and sustainable co-design
Explore how to build meaningful relationships and balance hope with realism. How do we responsibly steward trust, keep people safe—staff and citizens alike—and still stretch for change?
Creating Conditions to Try New Things
1st July 2025
Letting go of “we’ve always done it that way”
Hear how leaders are creating space to experiment, challenge myths, remove red tape and take bold steps. What happens when we support each other to dive in—even without all the answers?