About the event

This course is designed to enhance and develop your practice and increase competencies in participation and engagement. The course will be delivered over 6 full days (3 days face to face at the University of Exeter Streatham
campus and 3 days online). The cohort will run September – November 2024.

You will be required to engage in a reflective practice assignment to support your learning.

A place on the course will cost £600.

More information

This course will cover:

• The ontology, philosophy, and ethics of participation.
• Participation models and their appropriateness.
• Stage and age of lived experience.
• Learned experience and how to develop it.
• Planning projects and managing them for success.
• Working with others and having difficult conversations.
• Preparing people to share (or not).
• Evaluation and tracking of difference made.
• Creating projects based on principles.
• Challenging and controversy, how to manage it.
• Individual, service level and Commissioning level participation.
• Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion.
• More than steering groups – moving to youth led approaches.
• Creative thinking and doing.
• Becoming an Agent of Change – understanding how to use carrots and sticks, winning hearts and minds.
• Impacts – what difference does your role make?

This course is suitable for those working directly in roles related to participation, advocacy, peer support, lived experience voice and engagement.

Course dates & times

• Tuesday 24th September 2024, 09:30 – 16:00
• Tuesday 1st October 2024, 09:30 – 16:00
• Tuesday 15th October 2024, 09:30 – 16:00
• Tuesday 29th October 2024, 09:30 – 16:00
• Tuesday 12th November 2024, 09:30 – 16:00
• Tuesday 26th November 2024, 09:30 – 16:00

If you have any questions, please contact the Course Lead – Tim Tod (t.tod@exeter.ac.uk) and Project Coordinator -­ Morgan Craig (cyp-participation@exeter.ac.uk).

 Please book your place using this link to the Online Store.