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Ontario Network of Sexual Assault /Domestic Violence Treatment Centres
• A method to create deep discussion.
What is a World Café?
• A way to explore questions that really matter.
• An opportunity to change our standard questions, and so get different answers.
• To go beyond first-level conversation.
• To create new links among people.
• To share what is most meaningful to each participant.
• To give ourselves the gift of genuinely listening.
• To give each other the gift of being heard.
Why hold a World Café?
The purpose of this conference is
to engage in meaningfuldiscussions that
• challenge our practice, • stimulate choices for care and• change our understanding
of issues related to sexualassault and domestic violence.
What makes a good World Café?
1.Listen well.
2.Protect “safe space”.
3.Record what is most important to you.
How does it work?•3 rounds of conversation, with a different topic question for each one.
•Table hosts ensure everyone has a chance to speak.
•Use markers on paper table covers to record your thoughts and images.
•Hosts post the note sheets at the end of each round.
•Précis tomorrow afternoon.
3 Discussion Rounds
based on the conference theme:
• Challenges
• Choices
• Changes
Challeng
es
ChallengesWhat issues, opportunities, etc. are you facing?
• Nurses – recruitment, retention, shift coverage, ongoing education requirements.
• Skill and training – to avoid further trauma to child and women, while preserving the chain of evidence to pursue charges.
• Violence – effects of exposure; e.g., burn-out, emotional reactions, numbness: how achieve self-care?
• Funding cuts – reducing service, professional education, fewer shifts when violence occurs (weekends); no pay incentive to acquire additional certification and responsibilities.
• Systemic barriers – e.g., Union contract terms for on-call hours reduce nurses’ availability; little pay scale mobility, which reduces retention.
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Challengescontinued
• Cooperation and jurisdiction -- between and among agencies, professions; professional differences of opinion (e.g., HIV anti-viral protocol).
• Long-term effect – on victims (i.e. rape kit, repeated court appearances, abuser avoids punishment, women/children must relocate, etc.)
• Barriers for victims – language, culture, money, blame the victim attitudes, fear of further abuse as a consequence of reporting, shame.
• Societal circumstances – continuing pattern of violence against women (deaths); women emerging as abusers.
• “Issue creep”– mandate for one service, but other issues surface and become (more) important; e.g., help the individual or the family?
Choices• What choices have we made
to date to deal with our challenges?
• Are these “best practices” that we want to share with others in the room?
• Rise above details: Ask each other “deep”, probing questions.
Changes• What new choices would you
have to make to get the results you want?
• What changes in attitudes, actions, resources, arrangements, agreements, etc. would this require?
• You are creating a high-level action plan: brainstorm to help each other.
Carol J. Sutton Cert.ConRes. 604-946-3922 [email protected]
CJS Communications Inc., Delta, British Columbia