PBs Community of Practice

Does anyone have any experience of participants from a PBs workshop/training subsequently setting up a "PBs Community of Practice"?

One of the groups I trained in Tanzania are wanting to do this but not quite sure how to go about it. The group consists of 6 people from one organisation (that ran the training)and 5 people from other local agencies they are trying to work with.

Attached are my initial thoughts and suggetsions of things to consider in order to increase their chances of success.

Any other thoughts or suggestions appreciated. Thanks

The outline here looks great. I used to run PB Network groups here when the programme here was in the early days and the practice sharing bit along with talking about specific parts of the process were most valued by practitioners who came.

Problems with the groups were: trying to find a good time to hole the meeting (usually settled for 12-2pm and people brought own lunch), trying to find a good venue (as I cover a big geographical patch) and getting people to commit. Also it wasn't a static group of people which it sounds as if your group are - that bodes well for higher attendance and agreement about how and when to meet. I wish them well. It would be interesting to know what they bring to meetings and if our PBPeople community can offer anything to help

Ditto all that Ann says in terms of function and practicalities. In Northamptonshire I helped to set up various PB Network groups and those that thrived were where people were willing to 'own' the meetings and not look to someone else doing it for them. In Hertfordshire I believe there still exists a healthy PB Network - Fiona Benjamin has helped to set up and nurture this. Fiona can be contacted via the Action for Children website and then through a Protective Behaviours search.
Looking forward to hearing how it works out.

Hi Inspired
Love the ideas. How exciting for you to be so involved.
One way to cover some of these ideas is to do the Barriers and Strategies Exercise or something similar you design to meet the specific needs. See the trainers manual.The important thing is the group own it as you so correctly identify.
This exercise always ends up with some specific strategies and practices using the PB process to do it.

All the best from Di plus a little :sick: green with envy as I do miss the excitement of PBs development. Mind you it is so wonderful watching this forum so full of great ideas and practice.

Thanks Ann, Sally Ann and Di for your replies - it feels good to have my thoughts confirmed from your experiences. I will get in touch with Fiona and suggest the Barriers and Stragegies exercise and will let you know how they get on in due course.

Hi, We have been having a PB's in practice network group within the NHS Trust I work in and provide PB's training. We too have found it works best over a lunchtime and share lunch. It is a place in which we share practice with Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Learning Disability services. we share ideas, resources and peer supervision . Its a drop in but I find that there are a core group that attend. I have found that the investment of time and energy in initially nursing it along has been so worth while as recently when I was not able to attend, it went ahead without me and arranged the next one. I know now that long after I have gone PB's will be strong.
Good luck
Melanie