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Cathy Sharp. Action Researcher. Honorary Professor Robert Gordon University. Appreciative action research. Facilitation. Now @researchforreal.bsky.social
Edinburgh
Joined February 2012
@MHLscotland are approaching a milestone 20th birthday next year as part of the UK wide social movement. Let us know your stories and reflections - and ideas for celebrations. More here
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My Home Life has been a huge influence on my thinking and practice of #actionresearch #appreciativeinquiry #relationalpractice #leadership #caringconversations #humanrights well beyond the important...
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Resistance to theory takes many forms. Some people are too busy, otherwise preoccupied, fighting fires, disinterested, impatient for change, virtuously practical, simply too senior or content to delegate such work to someone else. are we missing a trick?.
“Words create worlds. We believe that the language we use creates our realities, so we seek to pay attention to how our language might position people and the inter-play between language, power and emotion.” On language and being too busy for theory.
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“Words create worlds. We believe that the language we use creates our realities, so we seek to pay attention to how our language might position people and the inter-play between language, power and emotion.” On language and being too busy for theory.
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Who’s marking our homework? #evaluation #actionresearch .It’s never neutral to go about asking questions. Inquiry itself is a form of intervening. Perhaps unsettling? As ‘participants, not spectators’, let's shape that participation as #learning
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RT @themarginalian: 20 years ago today, 3 years before he was slain by depression, David Foster Wallace delivered his unforgettable meditat….
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“This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unc…
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"We have been taught to be standing on the outside looking in. It is one thing to critique established ways of doing #evaluation, and quite another to turn entrenched ideas and dissatisfaction into something else. " #actionresearch
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A new space to be . #GrowAsWeGo . #actionresearch #appreciativeinquiry #relationalpractice #evaluation #stories #learning #socialaction
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#MeasuresthatMatter focuses on #Evaluation.#ActionResearch A #SystemChange methodology includes thinking differently about defining & measuring success, challenging systemic taken-for-granted mindsets & reporting practices #GrowAsWeGo.All reports here: .
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RT @weeculture: Check out "Fostering Engagement and Innovation in Meetings using Appreciative Inquiry" @Eventbrite.
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Learn how to create engaging and innovative meetings through the power of Appreciative Inquiry!
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Likely to be lively and widely useful!.
Is enhanced vibrancy and effectiveness at meetings one of your hopes for 2025? If so, you may be interested in our Engine of Meetings 1-day Workshop- using Appreciative Inquiry to enhance engagement and foster innovation in our chats around the table @belindajdewar
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And if anyone wants the #SystemDynamics background check out pages 31-37, especially Figure 6 in the report "Where should we look for system change?" August 2023 @DouglasMcKelvie @systemsbeing @JoAnimates #MeasuresThatMatter.
How can we use data differently to improve outcomes for children and families? Kerstin Jorna shares her experiences of understanding data in Dundee to improve children's journeys through the system. #MeasuresThatMatter
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"It is slow work that transforms the consciousness & relationships of those involved. It ripples into, rather than wrecks, the old systems. It is slow, relational work that improves lives." @researchforreal.bsky.social.#ActionResearch For a Trumpian Time
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Shock – horror – incomprehension.
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Using Data Better to Achieve Improved Outcomes for Children and Families. Where: COSLA Conference Centre, 19 Haymarket Yards Edinburgh EH12 5BH.When: Thursday, November 28 · 10am - 2:30pm. Book your place here:
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After 'decades of research. ' we seem stuck and yet, leaders are still waiting for #evidence. Yet, we also know that "It’s not about getting people to follow you to the future — it’s about getting them to cocreate it with you". @WM2U_ @AnimateConsults.
Decades of research into successful large scale change shows that it’s not about getting people in organisations to follow their leaders to the future - it’s about getting people to co-create the future. However, a change approach that seeks to engage everyone in the
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In my view, this why #actionresearch #coproduction and recognition of #complexity are so important - and - so difficult!.
So much of our focus in trying to spread improvements is in "explicit" knowledge: toolkits, good practice databases, standardised pathways etc. Most of the content that AI repurposes from online resources is explicit knowledge. Yet the biggest opportunities are in "tacit"
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Good refresher for old hands too!.
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Dusted off this old guidance on using #stories #AppreciativeInquiry @MHLscotland @WM2U_ @AnimateConsults @RGUNMandP Now at:
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This will be well worth attending.
This sounds like a great event focused on relationships and relationality in Action Research. ⬇️. 📅Wednesday 12th June.🕙10am - 3pm. To book a place, please email:.📬louise.hawxwell@ed.ac.uk
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And mindful that #systemchange includes engagement with & challenge to established perspectives about #evidence, we want to have a wider dialogue about system change, & the place of evidence within it. @AnimateConsults @DouglasMcKelvie.
Over 5 years of working with children & their families, we've learnt a lot - today WM2U, an approach funded by @thunterf and @bbccin, is sharing that knowledge in our new paper - read more here:
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Might be a nice refresher too?.
@MHLscotland are delighted to extend this invitation to our taster session for the #leadership support and development programme.@RGUNMandP .Sign-up link:
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