Monday, 24 November 2008

Storyboard to success

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Imagine going to an interest group or a reflective practice group with the intention of doing freehand artwork, colouring, painting, laughing, talking and generally having fun. Sounds bizarre doesn't it! We had one of those sessions on the 19th and as Steve has stated we have a massive amount of ideas and aspirations for the future of Staffordshire's SFA Community from the session.
 
Using the storyboard activity (thanks to the original ideas from Paul Z Jackson and Mark McKergow) we elicited very realistic and doable actions based on what was already working or existing for the SFA Community as we were able to start making the steps to progress. Using this SF activity we have been able to develop a pragmatic approach towards development of a team or service and not get bogged down into reasons why development can't be done. The storyboard approach helped us to break down our aspirations into manageable chunks and through conversation we spoke about what was already working, what the next steps were and also discussing what skills, strengths, resources and experiences we have in the SFA Community that will contribute to the achiements, you might say very SF!
 
So, after a 2 hour session we now have plans to use our media connections, our local connections and existing progress with networking to take the SFA Community out of the hospital grounds to meet people in other venues and to bring in the creative aspects of artists, ideas from business, experiences from healthcare and aspirations of people from the Community. We will be using our access to, knowledge and experience of social networking to reach out there via facilities such as youtube, facebook, blogging, twitter and good old fashioned emailing!
 
Carl

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