Guidance
Area: Lived experience
In this section, you can learn key insights and best practices that help you at each step of your engagement journey.
Our range of guides provide the practical tools you need to deliver engagement, looking at:
- Planning, delivering and evaluating a lived experience engagement programme
- Supporting your lived experience networks
- Inclusive and diverse engagement methods
- Tips and tricks for facilitating discussions, hosting accessible online sessions, and more
You can view our guidance resources by clicking on the boxes below and downloading the files.
We are continually developing new resources to share on the Knowledge Hub, but if you are looking for guidance in a specific area that we have not covered, please feel free to suggest topics to us by emailing rachel.cairns@alliance-scotland.org.uk.
Resources:
This toolkit is designed to help anyone map out the purpose, design, delivery and evaluation of an engagement programme from start to finish.
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Creating and Supporting a Lived Experience Network is a guide covering a range of considerations that will help inform the formation and development of your lived experience network.
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Considering a diversity recruitment strategy for your lived experience engagement programme or network is important to ensure that you attract individuals from diverse backgrounds, who can bring unique perspectives and experiences to the network. This document provides some actions you can consider for your diversity recruitment strategy.
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This is a reflective tool designed to prompt you to think about the ways to engage communities and individuals with lived experience, how to reach them, and what support they might need to participate.
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This guide covers some key tips for facilitating a productive, respectful, and enjoyable discussion.
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This document covers key tips for supporting and engaging with neurodiverse people, based on information shared by the Scottish Women’s Autism Network (SWAN).
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This quick guide provides points of consideration around communications that practitioners can follow when conducting engagement activity.
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Toolkit with guidance and resources for setting up, hosting and evaluating Conversation Cafes on women's health.
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This toolkit is a working document that sets the foundation for engaging with seldom heard communities and is based on The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) Readiness for Engagement Breaking Down Barriers Series.
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This toolkit has been produced to support groups to host their own lived engagement focus groups to discuss aspects of the See Hear Strategy. It is a guide for delivery, which can be used flexibly to help you set up, host and evaluate your own independent focus groups. It will support you to consider what might work best for your own unique group, and how you may approach a conversation on the priority areas for the See Hear Strategy.
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This toolkit has been produced to support groups to host their own lived engagement focus groups to discuss aspects of the See Hear Strategy. It is a guide for delivery, which can be used flexibly to help you set up, host and evaluate your own independent focus groups. It will support you to consider what might work best for your own unique group, and how you may approach a conversation on the priority areas for the See Hear Strategy.
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