James Dooley believes that engagement must have purpose.

#EngagementStrategy #PurposeDriven #JamesDooley #MeaningfulEngagement #EngagementMatters #PurposefulCommunication #SocialImpact #EngagementGoals #CommunityEngagement #ThoughtLeadership

Meaningful engagement must include the principles of engagement. Without these, participation risks becoming a performance rather than a pathway to transformation.

# principlesofmeaningfulengagement #livedexperience #meaningfulengagement

When lived experience experts are involved as equal partners, the solutions are not only innovative but also impactful since they are designed for real-world contexts.

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Lived experience transforms research. When people with lived expertise shape the questions, methods, and outcomes, studies stop being abstract data and start reflecting real-world needs.
#LivedExperienceExperts #SystemsChange #MeaningfulEngagement

We can’t build inclusive systems with only a fraction of the voices in the room.
Lived experiences are diverse across gender, culture, age, ability, and geography.
When policies overlook this complexity, they leave people behind.

#meaningfulengagement #inclusivesystems #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

We can’t build inclusive systems with only a fraction of the voices in the room.
Lived experiences are diverse across gender, culture, age, ability, and geography.
When policies overlook this complexity, they leave people behind.

#meaningfulengagement #inclusivesystems #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

If your work excludes lived experience, it risks missing the mark.
We bring insight, trust, and real-world relevance that theory alone can’t match.
Evidence shows meaningful involvement improves outcomes, responsiveness, and reduces harm.
#meaningfulengagement #livedexperience #Inclusion

As a member of the Committee for Communities I am pleased both Scotland and Wales have joined our call for ‘meaningful engagement’ before any future changes to benefits for people with disabilities happen.

#MeaningfulEngagement #DisabilityBenefits #benefits

11/12 Regular engagement with all political parties builds cross-partisan support. This transforms citizens' assemblies from performative gestures into meaningful mechanisms of governance.
#CrossPartisan #MeaningfulEngagement

CPD Leaders' Forum input this AM focused on building contextual wisdom for thriving trusts. Putting this into practice with visits to Andy Moorcroft (The Challenge Academy Trust) & Annette Williams (The Weaver Trust) for thoughtful discussions #LearnersMindset #MeaningfulEngagement

The Routledge Handbook on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement | Karin Bu Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement (MSE) is both a concept and a management approach, drawing on a combination of theoretical and applied knowledge areas (e.g.,

Take a look at my latest publication, and first edited volume! The International Handbook on #Meaningfulengagement, is available open access. Chapter 18, written by @NelsonShona
and me on Engagement in Canada, focuses on the case of @DoigRiverFirstNation
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Meaningful engagement and social participation of people with lived experience of NCDs, mental health and neurological conditions | Knowledge Action Portal on NCDs Here are some key WHO and global health documents on implementing meaningful engagement and supporting social participation of people living with NCDs, mental health and neurological conditions in hea...

Here are some key #WHO & #globalhealth documents on implementing #meaningfulengagement & supporting #socialparticipation of people living with #NCDs, #mentalhealth & #neurological conditions in health services, systems, policy, program & research.

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COLLECTIVE POWER: “The anti-trafficking sector’s unique history means that its mainstream frameworks around healing, services, support, and recovery are not rooted in collective power-building.”

“This means that even our recovery may be very individualistic in nature – focusing on the healing of individual trauma rather than historical, intergenerational, systemic, structural, or community trauma.”

“It may focus on individual healing as the end goal, rather than the transformation of harmful conditions.”

COLLECTIVE POWER: “The anti-trafficking sector’s unique history means that its mainstream frameworks around healing, services, support, and recovery are not rooted in collective power-building. This means that even our recovery may be very individualistic in nature – focusing on the healing of individual trauma rather than historical, intergenerational, systemic, structural, or community trauma. It may focus on individual healing as the end goal, rather than the transformation of harmful conditions.” Read more in our latest blog post

Collective power doesn't mean more survivors hold power-over in positions of authority.

Learn more in our latest blog post, which is the first in a series. nationalsurvivornetwork.org/collectivepo... #CollectivePower #CollectiveAction #MeaningfulEngagement

5) In peer healing spaces, you might initially go into fewer intensely vulnerable details or move more slowly through the content to allow trust to be built.

6) Organizers of larger events or media engagements may consider what might help create a container of trust in that context.

7) While this takes an investment of time and resources, prioritizing trust-building enables survivors to voice their concerns and say “no” more confidently to engagements that are potentially harmful to the storyteller. - Whose story, whose benefit? Returning (to) the power of authentic narrative.

View my full report, as well as other insightful reports from my project colleagues, at modernslaverypec.org/resources/to.... #SurvivorLeadership #MeaningfulEngagement #LivedExperience

1) Invest in survivor leadership, professional development, and skills beyond just storytelling or case management roles. Recommendation 6. Continually invest in survivors along the continuum from initiation of support to the highest levels of leadership

2) "We cannot create effective anti-trafficking policies and programming without meaningful input from people with lived experience, and we cannot get relevant, quality recommendations without investing in survivors at the earlier levels of survivor engagement." Also, investing in survivors at all stages reduces lateral violence by decreasing economic competition that pits survivors against each other out of desperation.

Invest in and then value survivors for their professional development skills, rather than only seeing them as a story to share, which can cause harm as it makes them to engage with their trauma over and over. #SurvivorLeadership #MeaningfulEngagement

4) “Use of warning tales for education is focused instead on helping people learn to ’anticipate reactions from the larger community through the lens of those stories.’” -“Whose story, whose benefit? Returning (to) the power of authentic narrative”

5) “Cautionary tales often perpetuate and are driven by paternalism and saviorism, leading to the development of ineffective and harmful programming and prevention policy that rely on stereotypes and ’rescue’.” -“Whose story, whose benefit? Returning (to) the power of authentic narrative”

View my full report, as well as other insightful reports from my project colleagues, at modernslaverypec.org/resources/to.... #SurvivorLeadership #MeaningfulEngagement #LivedExperience

“Just over half of the [ethical storytelling] models discussed how stories should be used to benefit the impacted communities. However, all but two were either unclear about who the community was or focused on the organisation’s self-defined community rather than the impacted person’s communities, which may not be the same.” -Whose story, whose benefit? Returning (to) the power of authentic narrative

It's important to make sure we don't assume that what benefits the organization or its community necessarily benefits the survivors and their communities. View my full report at modernslaverypec.org/resources/to.... #SurvivorLeadership #MeaningfulEngagement #LivedExperience

New #ESR Review from #UWC Community Law CentreArticles on #OPICESCR #meaningfulengagement and #monitoring

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Shanelle van der Berg now exploring issues of #meaningfulengagement, #ESR adjudication,admin law & effective remedies at @esranuki seminar