How do we engage citizens/learner? The practice is very engaging, using visual, interactive, flexible, and adaptable ways of creating space for creative conversations, as well as self- and organizational reflection. Participants are encouraged to further use the Making It Real practice in their own organisations, team meetings, reviews, and co-design events. Sometimes participants are negative at the start, but have a significant change of attitude during the session.
Which co-creation moments are included? Participation in society, awareness as a citizen, being involved in the creative method, as well as adapting and improving it.
Pedagogic/methodological aspects The practice can be entirely delivered by the organisations who sign up to it by living out the framework in their organisations. They are also welcome to access support in delivering it. To prepare, we ensure we understand the environment we are going into and work with people to ensure that we are facilitating in a way that makes sense to them. We support organisations to have conversations about applying the Making It Real framework, setting up goals and evaluating progress. We also support organisations to capture stories locally to evidence the impact of Making It Real. Impact is documented through stories, blogs, vlogs and Community Reporting and these are used for evaluation and assessment purposes too.
SWOT Strength
Its relational approach - it is about co-creating the right conditions, relationships, values, culture, language etc.
Weakness
The practice is sometimes misinterpreted as being ‘fluffy’.
Opportunities
It gives people permission to approach change from a human centred perspective, rather than a system centred perspective.
Threats
Alienating organisations – that said they are probably not the right organisations to be working with if they are alienated by the practice The biggest risk is not being able to meet demand.
Which aspects are transferable? The whole practice is transferable because the focus is on co-creating the right conditions for co-production (or doing things differently) . The Making it Real framework is about people, and what they want to experience, people who access support and people who work in services. The statements are universal in their application and could be used in any ‘personcentred’ environment.
What kind of change is created? Changed thinking, perception. Improved relationships. People being able to live ordinary lives with the support they need. Organisational development. There is usually an immediately noticeable attitude shift. More tangible changes anything from days to years.
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