How we work within Oasis

Oasis is an organisation built around the peer principle, shared accountability and consensual decision making.

We take a humanistic, person-centred approach that is based on a number of key principles, each reflecting our values:

1. Collaborative: those involved share the decision-making process.
2. Participative: people are involved, to a greater or lesser degree, in determining the structure, form and content of their roles and the work.
3. Experiential: wherever possible development approaches are integrated into a consistent and authentic whole that is based on the experience of the person in their own context.
4. Self and peer based: processes are developed which challenge traditional perspectives of authority, power, control and gender.
5. Developmental view of the individual in life, work, team and organisation: enables people to identify themselves and others in a process of becoming.
6. Learner at the heart of the learning: indicates individual responsibility and accountability for integrating theory and practice through experience. Learning is through action and direct application; a person’s capacity for learning through living is at the core of their being.

Each year we set aside co-director, staff and associate time to explore topics that are gathering influences in our work. In the past we have examined what peer relationships mean for us in our work, and looked at how far we act as citizens in our own ways of living and working.

As a signatory of the  UN Global Compact we are committed to working openly, accountably and transparently.

To find out more about how we work call us on 01937 541700 or use the contact form.