Engagement activities for parent carers and professionals
To get the best out of your engagement with adults, it's a good idea to check your assumptions and be quite specific about what you're trying to find out.
Check out the engagement framework to plan the whole delivery of the work, and get the most from these activities.
Challenge your assumptions, and use open questions in engagement
Whenever you start a new project you'll have your own thoughts and ideas, maybe even a bit of bias. Here's a way to challenge yourself to find out what people really think.
I like, I wish, What if...?
A friendly, structured way to gather feedback and ideas, breaking thoughts into three simple categories.
Interviews
This is a useful way to make sure you're asking the right questions. Check your assumptions, then use open questions to interview people.
Prompt cards
Prompt cards are visual collages that help start and guide discussions about different aspects of life.
Week in the life
This is a visual, hands-on activity that helps people share their everyday experiences through creating personal timelines.
These are the activities we run when we rebuild a local offer
Every Placid site is built with parent carers and young people in sessions like these, and Belong is built the same way with SENCOs. If you would rather not run them yourself, we can come and run them for you, gather fresh data for a section of your local offer, or refresh a section that has gone stale.
See how Placid is built →Talk to Jonny about running these with you →