Hi Open Futures is pleased to announce that the long awaited academic evaluation of our event for 127 mental health service users in Dundee on June 22/23, 2004 is available as a pdf file on our web site, www.openfutures.com
The evaluation was sponsored by the Scottish Executive's Department of Health and was written by Dr. Rosemary Chesson, Professor of Health Services Research, Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. Please click on the report within the red border on the home page entitled User, Consumer, Survivor, Refuser ... to download the 55 page report. The report's summary states "There were high rates of attendance throughout the event, high commitment to group processes and widespread contributions to discussions ... It was apparent that there was a goodness of fit between the approach of open space with its emphasis on democracy, future focus and complexity, and the aims of the group. "Over the two days considerable headway was made in, not only developing a structure for a national mental health service users' organisation, but also creating an agenda to take forward. "The event organised by the SiN (Scottish informal Network) group demonstrated that user-led strategic planning can be achieved effectively and efficiently." In other words, it was a bloody good event! Cheers Kerry, Eddie & Maggie Open Futures Ltd. Edinburgh www.openfutures.com * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
