For AMBIT's 4th annual conference, on 2nd June 2016, we ditched the traditional conference format adhered to in previous years in favour of a style more in keeping with the AMBIT's tradition of co-creation and the project's ambitions to foster and sustain a Community of Practice for AMBIT-influenced teams and individuals: the unconference. The unconference format provided a loosely structured space for peer-to-peer sharing of ideas, good practice and learning.

At the beginning of the day, participants were invited to make a note on small pieces of paper of particular conversations they would like to lead or take part in. These ideas were then mapped to the quadrant of the AMBIT Wheel to which they most related, and organised into five "Unconference Conversation" topics for each quadrant: Working with your CLIENT, Working with your NETWORKS, LEARNING at work and Working with your TEAM. We then had a participant-created schedule for the morning, with sessions relating to each quadrant to run concurrently in separate rooms. The schedule was displayed on a board so that participants could choose their own timetable for the morning:



Notes made by facilitators in each unconference conversation are available here, arranged by quadrant.

Working with your CLIENT Unconference Conversations

Working with your NETWORKS Unconference Conversations

LEARNING at work Unconference conversations

Working with your TEAM Unconference conversations

In the afternoon we played some games designed to prompt thinking about Dis-integration (which involved silly glasses and balloons) and the use of the Community of Practice (which involved post-it notes on foreheads and long bits of elastic). We also offered three short, pre-planned talks with a view to sharing practice, sparking conversation and seeking feedback and collaboration:

• AMBIT training across a locality - James Wheeler
• Thinking about the AMBIT Wheel from a young person's perspective - Dickon Bevington
• Starting an AMBIT-influenced team from scratch: establishing a partnership between the AMBIT Project and an NHS healthcare team - Liz Cracknell

A "cafe corner" was open all day to create a space for those serendipitous encounters with fellow participants which feedback from previous conferences tells us sometimes create the most valued learning opportunities.