After an encounter with some goats and successfully escaping a multi-story car park on route from sunny Dunkeld to Dundee, I eventually arrived at the Discovery Point centre overlooking the Tay. There, I was joining people from the arts, social care, education, justice, health and youth services to explore collaboration. The question for the day was ‘how …
Co-production is a process that creates change. It is a way of working with, rather than doing to, people and communities to achieve better outcomes. Done well, the co-production process can support organisations and individuals become agents for change. This free resource builds on the work included in the co-production project planner. It is designed …
We have been working with a number of different organisations and projects to support them to use the co-production project planner. One thing that we often discussed is trying to navigate the number of different tools that are available to us when we are facilitating co-production. I find that often I am drawn to using …
The Co-production planner includes a suite of facilitation tools that you can use in co-production projects. Iriss produced a publication in 2016 about using tools in social services, it is a really useful introduction to tools and is nicely illustrated too! This Iriss Onโฆ is the result of collaboration between Iriss and the Leapfrog project …
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Over the past few months I have been working on a co-production project planning resource. Focused on putting ideas into action, it draws on my experience of delivering co-production projects with Iriss. While in the process of creating it, I have been reflecting on what sets co-production apart from other ways of making change. I …
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