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Process Drive 1 - CAPIR Introduction

Reflecting

What do we know already?

This stage helps us to identify the key facts about the situation based on our own experiences.

In this phase, you might find the Reflecting on Experience Tool useful [PDF | Word]

Questions to ask

What do we know about this issue?
Think about the problem, its history and its effects.

How do we know about this issue?
Who says? Think about any records or interviews you could access.

What don't we know about this issue?
What do others from this community who are not here say? Think about questions we might need to ask.

Interpreting

Why is it important to us?

This stage encourages us to think about what this experience means, who else considers it important and where else we can get information.

Questions to ask

Why is this issue important to us?
Think about our values.

Who else is this issue important to?
Think about the position of these people and their power to help us. Think about making personal contact and sharing the results of others.

What difference can we make to this issue?
Think about what things you can actually change.

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Deciding

What will we do?

This phase helps us to decide what we are going to do about the issue based on what we know and the information we have been able to gather from our sources.

Questions to ask

You might find the Action Planning Tool helpful.[PDF | Word]

What's the solution to this issue?

• What is our goal?
• How will we do it?
• What is our plan?
• What steps will we take to reach the goal? Answering this question enables you to set milestones.
  What resources are needed to take each step?
• Rewrite the steps to include the resources and the questions. This forms our strategy.
• How long will each step take and when will they happen? Answering these questions will enable you to write a schedule.
• Who will take the steps?
• What will we do if things go wrong? Setting the protocols for the project.

Do we all agree?

Who else needs to agree? Answering these questions will give you permission to act and to use resources.

You may choose:

• to establish multiple, self chosen, interest-based action groups to undertake immediately relevant projects.

to support initiatives by:

• involving people with expertise as outside advisors
• providing access to physical resources
• providing starting capital
• identifying and removing obstacles.

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Acting

Let's do it!

This is where we actually have to do something and take some action. It is important to stop and think about your actions and their consequences and see what we learned from them and if we would like to share that lesson with people in our own community or in other communities.

Things to do

Take the first of the steps you have identified

• Stop and talk about what you did
• What difference did you make?
• How do you know?
• What did you find out?
• What do you need to find out?
• Check that you are doing what was agreed to (who, what, when and with what)
• Talk about anything that went wrong
• If you need to, change your action or your plan
• Tell others about it and invite them to comment
• Take your next step
• Stop, talk about it
• What difference did you make?
• How do you know?
• What did you find out?
• What do you need to know?
• Check that you are doing what was agreed to
• Talk about anything that went wrong
• If you need to, change your action or your plan
• Tell others about it and invite them to comment

Continue in the same way for the next steps.

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Evaluating

How did it go?

This stage is a review of the progress. It helps us to think about the way we went about the process in each module and whether it met our standards as we described them when we set our values.

If we didn't meet our standards, we can re-do this module using different strategies until we feel we have met them. For example if one of our values was to include all the community, we can't proceed with the plan if only two people turned up to the meeting! We need to try some other ways to get people involved.

If we have met our values we can keep a record of our progress by using the CAPIR Value Set Checklist [PDF | Word].

We can also track our progress by using measurements that are meaningful to the problem and by keeping a record of changes over time.

Questions to ask

What difference did we make?

• What actions did we take?
• How do we know we made a difference?
• What have we learned?
• Did we meet all of our community values?
• Did we meet all of our CAPIR values?
• How will we share our new knowledge and with whom?
• Does this change what we will do next? How?
• What will we do next? You may find that there will be a recommended module here.

Remember to:

• Celebrate the milestones even if they are only little ones.
• Have the courage to recognise where things could have been done better w.
• Follow celebrations by asking of those taking part, "what will we do next?"

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