Ngā pātuitanga i roto i ngā taiao matatini: Ngā utauta me ngā tikanga mahi mō ngā hua whaikiko
Tuesday 26 February 2019
Partnerships are fundamental to the practice of health promotion. All of us are in some kind of partnership, personal and/or professional. Good partnerships help us achieve the public health outcomes we are seeking but it’s not always easy to be a good partner, especially in complex times.
In this reflective practice workshop we will consider together what it takes to be a good partner, how to foster good partnerships, explore tools to assist us build and maintain good partnerships and learn from others who have achieved great results from excellent partnerships and are willing to share the lessons they learnt along the way.
All public health practitioners need to understand what it takes to enable and maintain excellent working partnerships- this workshop will re-energise your practise of this critical skill.
This workshop is co-facilitated by Dr Anna Stevenson a Public Health Physician and Dr Cheryl Doig, an educator and futurist- both based in Canterbury.
Topics covered
- Personal partnership skills
- Tools that can be used to build, evaluate and maintain professional partnerships
- Successful Partnership case studies
- Hands on application of several partnership tools
- Collaborating and partnership in complex environments
Style of course
Seminar style teaching, video presentations, interactive discussion and workshop activities.
Who should attend?
This course is aimed at people from New Zealand and other nations, including:
- Policy makers from central and local government
- NGO staff
- Health professionals
- Health promoters
By the end of this course participants should have:
- Up-to-date knowledge about the importance of healthy partnerships for achieving good public health outcomes
- Increased knowledge and skill in building and maintaining their own personal partnerships
- Increased knowledge and skill in building and maintaining health professional partnerships
- Increased knowledge and skill in utilizing tools that are designed to assist with building health partnerships with the wider network
- New ideas about how partnerships work and what to do when you are struggling
- Had fun along the way!
Draft timetable
| Time | Session | Presenter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00am | Welcome and Introduction | Anna Stevenson, Workshop Facilitator |
| 9:20am | What do YOU bring to a partnership? | Anna Stevenson |
| 9:50am | Introducing the VicHealth Partnership Tool | Cheryl Doig |
| 10.30am | Morning Tea | |
| 11:00am | The IAP2 Partnership Tool | Chris Mene |
| 11:20am | What is the evidence to support Partnership work? | Anna Stevenson |
| 11:50am | Partnership Case Studies | Bill Bayfield, CEO ECan Carmel Williams, South Australia Partnership for health unit Dr Lucy Daeth and Sue Turner, All Right? Campaign Helen Graham (CDHB) and Miria Goodwin (ECan), joint work plans Dr Kaaren Mathias, Project Burans. |
| 12:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm | Partnership Case Studies | Bill Bayfield, CEO Ecan Carmel Williams, South Australia Partnership for health unit Dr Lucy Daeth and Sue Turner, All Right? Campaign Helen Graham (CDHB) and Miria Goodwin (Ecan), joint work plans Dr Kaaren Mathias, Project Burans. |
| 2:20pm | Putting the Treaty Partnership into Practice | Alex Macmillan and Rhys Jones – TBC |
| 3:00pm | Afternoon tea | |
| 3:15pm | Tools to help us work together | Cheryl Doig |
| 4:00pm | Bringing it together | Cheryl Doig |
| 4:45pm | Evaluation and wrap-up | |
| 5:00pm | Close |
Teaching staff
- Dr Anna Stevenson, Public health Physician, Canterbury District Health Board
- Dr Cheryl Doig, Educationalist and Futurist, Think Beyond.
Anna and Cheryl are both experienced partnership practitioners with the scars to prove it. This workshop is based on their experience and research over many years.
Course cost and registration
$300 early bird, $400 after 20 December 2018.
A 50% discount is available to full-time students, those unwaged and University of Otago staff.
