IBEX’s work takes us across our region, and into encounters with newer ways of engaging with one’s context and the communities in which we are set. One such encounter was with developments initiated by Faithworks Wessex around the south and south east of Dorset, in the area of community conversations. Initially these had happened in Poole, over three sessions of ‘Conversations’, which modelled the approach. Since then similar conversations have happened in Christchurch, and a