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GUIDING QUESTION FOR YOUR OWN EXERCISE IN RPP

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Course: Reflexivity and participation in communities
Book: GUIDING QUESTION FOR YOUR OWN EXERCISE IN RPP
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1. Introduction

1. The Reflexive Participative Partnership (RPP) scheme

Based on our collective experience from discussions and the development of national case studies, we have identified six aspects of Reflexive Participative Partnership (RPP) that have helped us present complex processes in a schematic form. We suggest keeping these six packages in mind when preparing for a collaborative activity. Each partner can construct and reflect on their own set of six packages, which include their motivations, perspectives on their partners, and more. Sharing and discussing these packages can help clarify different views, common goals, and expected benefits of the partnership. RPP should be viewed as a virtual field where a circular process of reflection on different aspects or packages is continuously ongoing. Each aspect or package should be revisited and reflected upon repeatedly to continually build a better reflective participative partnership. This open-ended process poses many challenges and is prone to mistakes, imbuing it with the character of a "life-long learning" process.

2. How to build Reflexive Participative Partnerships?

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Package 1: POTENTIAL PARTNER(S)

  • Whose rights (voice, inequality) do you intend to focus on?




  • Try to summarize, what you know about the potential partner/s. 



  • What experience do you have with them? 



  • What contacts (relationships) do you already have, or how can you develop them?



  • Who else should be involved in the collaborative group or network around this participation and how?


Package 2: MOTIVATION 

  • Why do you want to enhance the partner(s)' position, voice, power? 



  • Why do you intend to focus on their problem(s)?  




  • Try to find out and explain your motivation and arguments for  enhancing this group.



  • What tensions, ambiguities, or challenges need to be understood/recognised in the potential collaboration with these partners? 



  • How can you deal with them?


Package 3: OWN POSITION

  • From what position will you act?




  • Reflect and discuss your professional identity, role and mandate in approaching this group. 



  • What power do you have to enhance their voices and eventually implement or support the consequencies? 



  • What promises (protection) can you realistically  assure from your position?



  • What responsibilities do you have that you must uphold in this situation? 



  • What rules and boundaries result from it?


Package 4: CONTEXT related to the partner/problem

  • Describe and discuss the context.



  • How do you construct the problem (tension, ambiguity)? 



  • What values underlie this framing?



  • What historical factors, habits, discourse, solutions are related to this context  and needs to be reflected upon?


Package 5: WAYS AND STRATEGIES

  • How can you create and assure a safe space for the partner collaboration?




  • Try to reflect and explore concrete situations and strategies for bringing the partners/group together and starting (or continuing) to negotiate the process.



  • What approaches and methods would you suggest that reflect the purpose, your position, and the context?



  • How can you help and support the expression of ambiguities and complexities in their situation?



  • How can you deal with weekness, mistakes, lack of knowledge, and capabilities to uphold the dignity of participants?


Package 6: WHAT DO YOU EXPECT WOULD FOLLOW?

  • What do you expect to happen after the voices have been strengthened? 



  • Will the collaboration become more equal? 



  • Will the problem be solved?



  • How will you (or others) interpret the voices and the collaboration results?



  • What role and mandate do you expect to have afterward? For example, will you implement the results?