As the membership of our group continued to grow and I struggled to understand how all of these community organisations and groups relate with one another. As a result, we began our meeting with an exercise that ‘mapped the community’ (exercise in the Dawning Toolkit (PDF), on the Partnerships in Dementia Care website).The mapping exercise helped us to clarify CCC members’ positions and agency acronyms and histories in our communities. Other potential community partners with which to build relationships were also identified.
The meeting was more action oriented, as we tried our hand with appreciative interviews. We broke out into partners and conducted Discovery interviews which were then shared with the group. We then analysed our responses and core themes emerged. It will be interesting to see how they relate to the themes that will emerge from our larger Discovery.
