{"id":647,"date":"2020-11-23T11:36:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T11:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/coproduction\/?p=647"},"modified":"2020-11-23T11:37:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T11:37:48","slug":"an-exercise-in-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/coproduction\/2020\/11\/23\/an-exercise-in-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"An exercise in listening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Carolyn M Holmes<\/strong> shares her experience of embracing \u2018coproduction\u2019; and being ‘all ears’. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u2019t remember the word \u2018coproduction\u2019 being mentioned over 30 years ago, when I trained to be a social worker. However I learned to knock on doors, to listen, to value personal stories, relationships, the unique individualism of us all, the role of community and a family in our lives, in whatever form that might be. Years away from practice, also known as the ‘frontline’, I have had the pleasure of being brought back from strategy and health education administration to the reality of coproduction, in my role as a Personalisation lead for an English Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). It has been an absolute pleasure and an honour to be back sitting face to face with carers, patients, people with lived experience, as I am myself, to have real conversations about life as it is, not what we think or would like to think it is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n