Resolution provides facilitation for many different situations and requirements. The following examples give an insight into how we work, and the benefits we deliver to our clients

Imagine a Healthy Scotland

Resolution co-facilitated at the 2nd Healthy Scotland Convention at the Edinburgh Interantional Conference centre on 2nd November 2001. This was a high profile event was chaired by the Directior of the Public Health Institute in Scotland, Professor Phil Hanlon and with key-note speakers that included Marc Danzon, Director of the World Health Organisation and Malcolm Chisholm the Deputy Health Minister-now Health Minister in Scotland.

Over 300 people form the Health sector, local authorities, other public, pivate and voluntary bodies form throughout Scotland shared expamples of where they were making a difference and imagined what a step change in Scotland’s health would look like. The remit form the event commissioners, the Health Improvement Division of the Scottish Executive was to design and implement a creative and participative event which would encourage and motivate all participants to recognise their role in the step change and to team up with others to achieve the goal.

After the short keynote addresses delegates were straight into geographical groups to ask what real difference are we making?, what is going well? and what challenges remain? They were also asked to describe what the step change would look like and what should be done now to make a difference. A roving artist facilitator helped groups express their ideas and visions. Participants departed from the usual conference format thereafter when they set off on an experiential journey to ‘Open Space’ where they chose a topic from a list of lifestyle issues eg mental health and highlighted an experience which had made a real difference. In the final session of the day participants returned to their original mixed groups to imagine they had the power and the resources to achieve the step change - what would you do?

The review of the day’s outputs revealed an encouraging consensus on the priorities to be addressed eg transforming services form care to prevention. Confidence and self esteem are essential for personal belief in sustaining good health, need for support during transitions like childhood to adolescence, more meaningful community involvement, participation and empowerment.

Feedback from the delegates revealed high motivation, great enthusiasm and commitment. Wyllie and Reid the managing contractor for the convention and Resolution are currently in discussion with the Scottish executive on how best to take this forward.

For information on how Resolution can work with you to design and facilitate events contact mwright@resolution-scotland.com

Imagine Peckham

Skillful facilitation can bring large and small events to life. State of the art conference centre and large numbers of people are not essential. If you have a smaller number of people eg 20/30/40 and some basic resources you can achieve a lot. Let’s travel to Peckham in South East London to hear about ‘Imagine Peckham’.

On February 19th in a local community centre a diverse group of people who either live or work in Peckham met to explore the energy around making their voice heard and planning the future of Peckham. Resolution supported the Project leader Kate Start of Start Consulting on the day of the launch which was attended by –people. The participants worked in pairs, small groups and finally as one large group to epclore what they liked about Peckham, what improvements they had noticed. In groups they shared what it meant in their experience to live and work in a community they enjoyed and as the group listed their priorities for the Peckham they wanted to see in the future-commitment and enthusiasm were high. At the end of the day a design group had formed to take the work forward.

Resolution contributed to the design of the day and was part of the facilitation group on the day which enabled complete strangers to get to know each other, have fun, share their dream/s about their community and what was important to them. Even better was the fact that they committed to action. Positive power came through the appreciative design of the questions the participants used. For more information about Imagine Peckham see………………

The Healthy Scotland Convention and Imagine Peckham were two very different events but how people respond to the offer to become involved is wonderful to behold. Commitment and creativity are their in large quantities when it is something they care about.