ACTivating the future of Primary Care

Living Potential ran a unique, three-day self-catering residential programme for groups of new Primary Care Network leaders to develop the collective leadership and relationships required to deliver their shared vision for the future of primary care.

The programme was carefully designed to take participants out of their comfort zone and help them to discover their individual and collective leadership commitments.

Though ACTivate covered many themes, each theme connected cogently and practically within a three-pointed frame:

1. What is this PCN about?  

2. What leadership development do I myself need to make my optimal contribution?

3. How do we need to be together to make our PCN high performing and effective ?

The ACTivate Programme focused on:

1. Learning at a system level: A PCN is a system, a live constellation. Creating synergies across systems is notoriously difficult, yet its challenge is at the heart of the integration of health and social care. We explored how the PCN and this leadership community needed to work as a system to ACTivate the potential of PCNs.

2. Individual self-directed development: the residential created the conditions for participants to develop their awareness and skill for this next part of their leadership journey.

3. Group dynamics: Shared living provided the group with a rare opportunity to observe their own and each other’s responses, and so to understand how better to draw on the collective capability of groups. ACTivate provided the space to notice how groups handle the unconscious processes which so strongly play out in – and often impede - organisational life.