04_Inter-professional+communication

=Inter-professional communication=

The following short report details the process that was involved in determining our ( a group of participants at a two day workshop) views on the way that Landscapes of practice and communities of practice are developed.

The group was set a task to complete a 'representation' to illustrate their thoughts and views about 'landscapes of practice'.

Watch the story here: media type="youtube" key="BUc7Xszeh3A" height="344" width="425"

The 'story' was intended to raise questions and these were seen as:
 * "What were her boundaries?
 * How did she cross them?
 * Was she using her imagination to suceed or was she using her skills to align herself with what was considered the norm?
 * Did she challenge the alignment?
 * Does everyone share her qualities?

Producing the 'story' was an interesting exercise. As a result, members of the group suggested that they share their own experiences and articulate their own stories of practice. Each participant was asked to:
 * develop vignettes of practice;
 * reveal their views to the group in a small break out room;
 * report their views individually and then look for common features and share ideas and thoughts;

These were captured individually, on audio and video The video focused on the participants' hands to maintain confidentiality and to demonstrate the way that body language is an important facet of communication.

When this was done, the group found they were listening intently, they were articulating fears and concerns and much of this related to day-to-day practice. However, this began to feel like an MBA seminar in that we considered strategies and prompts that might underpin positive and indeed, negative forms of interagency communication.

However, what also occurred was a realisation that the process the group had been involved in was very important. For example: //having a shared moral perspective, developing a shared ideology, learning (from each other) technical language, developing a shared view of what was meant by leading practice and developing views about the importance of change. What emerged were some first ideas about the way these aspects were perhaps the important components of moving though and around a landscape of practice. Moreover, the process of group involvement and the desire to change and integrate views needs to be facillitated.//