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Category: 10. Supporting tools

Tools and methods to help you “do” co-production

Six essential mindsets (by Kelly Ann McKercher)

Kelly Ann McKercher, who works in Australia as Beyond Sticky Notes, has collated 6 essential mindsets for co-design, which apply very much across the co-production spectrum: Elevating lived experience Curiosity Hospitality Being in the grey Learning through doing Valuing many perspectives Read the details on their website over here: https://www.beyondstickynotes.com/mindsets-for-codesign  

Psychologically Informed Environments – PIE

Blog post on why PIE is useful to the front-line of organisations dealing with homelessness. https://www.homeless.org.uk/connect/blogs/2017/feb/08/why-pie-rationale-for-psychologically-informed-environments 2. A useful guide on how to implement PIE by Westminster City Council. http://meam.org.uk/2015/10/28/new-resource-on-psychologically-informed-environments/ 3. Summary of an article on implementing PIE into a young persons homeless shelter and the impact it made to interactions between staff and those […]

Tools for evaluation

Participatory video & most significant change. A useful tool to evaluate certain instances of co-production. https://insightshare.org/resources/participatory-video-and-the-most-significant-change/     Most Significant Change: “The Most Significant Change (MSC) technique is a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation. It is participatory because many project stakeholders are involved both in deciding the sorts of change to be recorded and in analysing […]

Revaluation: A participative approach to measuring and making change.

A summary of the new process of Revaluation making Evaluation an integral part of the provision of services. “Revaluation is best suited to contexts in which complexity is acknowledged, such that “what is going on?” is recognised as a good opening question. When subsequent questions relate to the value of that activity (eg “what is good?”, “what […]

Community Circles

A write up by Helen Sharp in the Ideas Hub website: “Community Circles help people be happier, healthier and more connected with the support of those around them. This is a concept that the Ideas Hub has championed through sharing many stories and case studies, such as Keyring and SolvaCare. Community Circles help to create a circle […]

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