Collaboration

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What this means…

Collaboration depends upon the degree to which a person can work with visibility and choice.

Unless a peer group actively seeks to examine its own life, it quickly, like any other group, develops recognised formations of pairings and sub-groupings.

This results in limiting creativity and experimentation, reducing opportunities for group members to engage with each other and begins to replicate the features of group life in more traditional settings.

Collaboration takes time but when people work strongly together, though they do not all get all their needs met all the time, they all know that their needs have been taken into account, and a process is not agreed until it is agreed by all.

To find out more about implementing this way of working, including a process guide and case studies, see the Oasis Press publication Working Relationships for the 21st Century: A Guide to Authentic Collaboration by Nick Ellerby, Angela Lockwood, Gill Palin, Susan Ralphs and Bryce Taylor.