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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?
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