DEEP Learning session: making collective decisions

Developing Evidence Enriched Practice (DEEP) is a co-production approach to gathering, exploring, and using diverse types of evidence in learning and development using story and dialogue-based methods. 

The challenge of co-production

Whilst co-production is widely promoted, making it a reality can be challenging. We all see the world differently and bringing well-intentioned people together to talk can end up leaving everyone frustrated if the conversations do not go well.

Consensus decision making is a method to make a collective decision.

Consensus decision making seeks to find actions and/ or solutions that everyone actively supports or at least can live with. This may be an ideal method for collaboratively deciding how evidence will be used in practice or whether to introduce an innovation. The benefits of this approach can include building relationships, supporting respectful dialogue, and reaching better decisions.

The session

This session will explore where consensus decision making fits in the broader processes of research, practice development and innovation. It will cover what consensus decision making is and how to do it. We will try and offer a sense of what it is like to be involved the process. The session is also an opportunity to explore solutions for common challenges when seeking collective decisions.

This conference is being run by Social Care Wales if you have any questions, please contact the event team.