Phase 3. Creating a Shared Vision
What you might see
- Small numbers of community members beginning to take action, believing that change is possible;
- Service providers valuing the contribution of community members and community participation processes;
- Open dialogue about equity among a diverse group of stakeholders;
- Inclusive community engagement that caters for and respects diversity;
- Community members being valued as partners in the work;
- Existing and emerging community leaders participating in the agenda setting process.
What you can do
- Seek the involvement of community members from different cohorts, factions, and geographies;
- Include community members as genuine partners in negotiations and agreements;
- Make explicit links between community participation, the vision for change, and action plans;
- Create simple and plain language agreements about who will contribute what, how and when, including community members;
- Deliver early wins or small prototypes with community members leading or involved;
- Facilitate mutual learning – community members and service providers help each other to understand their perspectives and ways of working.
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Understand where your initiative is on the Collaborative Change Cycle
This video explores why being attentive to the atmosphere around the collaborative gathering – not just the content within – is important. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and lead together.
Deep Collaboration
3. Creating a Shared VisionStep 3 looks at common patterns of behaviour that you can expect to find in these kinds of collaborations – and how recognising and talking about them openly assists partnering. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and lead together.
Deep Collaboration
This tool will help you to map and interpret stakeholder dynamics in your initiative. This tool can be useful at the start of an initiative when you are working out the ‘lay of the land’, if things go wrong, if there is conflict, or if you are not making progress.
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This resource will help you gain peer input into responding to a current challenge, surfacing assumptions, identify new opportunities, and identify common patterns and themes in the work of community change.
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