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Chloe - sharing power is letting go of power and work alongside people
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Yes.
Yeah,
What
you said,
right, John?
I think we might
if you can get close.
OK,
so thank you for this. And would you like to introduce yourself?
Yeah, I cle
Juliet.
I mean, we're gonna We're gonna do this. OK,
um,
one of the tricks I've been told is
I can't talk with your talking because they're gonna use
of
face.
And also, please remind me I just get your consent to sign.
I
said that. Yeah. Yeah, that's fine.
Um OK, so I'm as
well I'll ask
you,
like
extra stuff.
Just
tell us who you
are.
OK? So I'm Chloe.
Juliet. I work for a company called Traverse,
and I've been part of the co
production network at Sky for years.
Ok, um
um,
so today's
theme at this festival is about, uh, production and and sharing the power about,
uh
how does sharing the power mean to you?
Um,
I think sharing power is about letting go of the
idea that you should be in charge of a service.
That's
for somebody else.
I'm not English,
letting your identity of taking care of others become
about letting them take care of themselves.
And you helping them to do that rather than you taking care of
and And
And How have you found today so far?
Really interesting.
It's great to see such a mix of people and so many questions being asked.
People are very curious.
It's obviously caught on as a thing more than it was a few years ago,
and it's really nice to see so many people and so many
councils and organisations being so interested in doing co production work.
And and do you find that people are doing co
production more in the way
that service users
care as well?
I think so. I think it's catching on. Um, I wouldn't wanna
give a statistic, because I don't know,
but
yeah, the impression I get over the is that people are doing it more and more
because they're seeing the benefits of it. When they
do,
we let people
inform the decisions that affect them because they do know best.
More people see that it works.
More people wanna do it.
And
what advice would you give?
Uh, professionals
about
will
be
in power?
Um,
I think I'd say
go into the room and be willing to
so
you
you're going with a bunch of aims and objectives, and
this is usually due to the funding that you're getting. And that's fine.
It's OK to go in with objectives,
but you're willing to put them down and just listen to what the
person in front of you is saying so that you can understand them
and then
tracked about today.
Thanks for having me. It was lovely.
Brilliant.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
Right. And
there is a consent form
scribble
of your PF to scribble.
Um,
so
I ask you
to say
to say
good,
OK,
up whatever information that you want to give us,
it might be helpful if
you if you are representing the organisation,
Do I need to explain who it is or do I just Can I just say
just say
just say as much as what you want, OK?
OK, so
we
so,
uh
OK.
Would you like to say who you are?
Yeah. So I'm Mary Gardner and I work for independent age.
You're a charity that support older people,
and
today's festival is about co
production
and sharing with power.
What does that mean to you? Sharing with power
sharing power for me just seems that it's the best
way to do things and the right way to do.
I think we can easily fall into ways of working
where we think as professionals and then other people.
And actually sharing power is about everybody being equal.
Everybody's got equal amounts of experience and information.
It's working collaboratively,
is the most important thing
and making sure that everybody gets equal sayings and contributes equally and
has an opportunity to do that in whatever way works for them.
And And what advice would you give professionals about
sharing power?
Do
we
you just do it and listen more and
trust people that they know what works best for them in their
circumstances will probably also have a lot of experience and not what
works for other people
to trust people that they
have a good knowledge, and they can contribute just as easily
say and want to say
and actually want to work to make things better,
Just like probably a lot of the professionals come into,
um, social care to do, too.
And how have you found
today?
It's great.
I love Tony's song.
I've not heard that before. It was fab.
It's been a really energetic, lively experience,
not it's so nice and refreshing to come to a conference where
there's a real electric bus around and and people have been in
the
I. I've certainly felt that I can sort of contribute and been asking
at the workshops
and I think the workshops are quite varied.
But I'm looking forward to hearing the speakers this afternoon.
I think it's just really nice collaborative piece
and I think I can tell that it's probably been designed and created equally
by people that are professionals and people, probably from the
construction.
So you can you can just help
anything else you'd like to say about today or
home production in general.
And
I think
it's really disappointing that we've been talking co production and
certainly I've worked for a number of different cases.
We've been talking co production for
1015 years and talking about personalization,
and it's a shame that we're still talking about it being a
fairly new thing for so many people and for so many organisations.
And it's just such a powerful way of working
and it brings so many benefits to organisations,
but most importantly to people themselves that
people have a say and people can do whatever they want
power to do.
For me, it just seems an in brainer that everybody would
Brilliant,
Thank you very much.
Ok,
Thank you.
Yes.
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