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MyHomeLife Scotland are delighted to extend this invitation to our taster session for the #leadership support and development programme @RGUNMandP Sign-up link: forms.office.com/e/UHXwkWZBj9

Might be a nice refresher too?

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. wm2u.co.uk/resource/where… Animate Consulting Douglas McKelvie

This will be well worth attending.

Dusted off this old guidance on using #stories #AppreciativeInquiry MyHomeLife Scotland What Matters To You Animate Consulting @RGUNMandP Now at: research-for-real.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

Good refresher for old hands too!

In my view, this why #actionresearch #coproduction and recognition of #complexity are so important - and - so difficult!

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". What Matters To You Animate Consulting

We will be talking about #MeasuresThatMatter #SystemChange #Impact

"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 actionresearchplus.com/action-partici…

rse.org.uk/award/healthy-… The Nest Wellbeing Group Fiona Bain

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 wm2u.co.uk/resource/where… Douglas McKelvie https://mastodon.ie/@Joanodo Jo Kennedy #MeasuresThatMatter

Likely to be lively and widely useful!

Check out "Fostering Engagement and Innovation in Meetings using Appreciative Inquiry" eventbrite.com/e/fostering-en… @Eventbrite

#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: research-for-real.co.uk/projects-and...

A new space to be .....#GrowAsWeGo #actionresearch #appreciativeinquiry #relationalpractice #evaluation #stories #learning #socialaction open.substack.com/pub/researchfo…

"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 researchforreal.substack.com/p/be-a-partici…

20 years ago today, 3 years before he was slain by depression, David Foster Wallace delivered his unforgettable meditation on the meaning of life – perhaps the greatest commencement address of all time themarginalian.org/2012/09/12/thi…

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 researchforreal.substack.com/?r=clga9&utm_c…