Navigating The Journey

Many effective user-run organisations are born out of existing user-run groups or formed as brand new bodies. An alternative and less well-examined approach is for staff to start a group or service and then yield power to the emerging leadership of members. People using services, staff and commissioners need to develop a shared understanding of the process and the pitfalls of this approach.

Click on the link in the right hand column to read more about the NDTi workshop which provides practical ideas to facilitate this.