Moving Forward Together in Aboriginal Women's Health: - Theses ...

Moving Forward TogetherJanet KellyPAR process with our own (fresh water) priorities, concerns and knowledges,to create a collaborative method that could work well in our own situation(foam) 20 . In conversation local Aboriginal community women and healthprofessionals discussed their concern about not being heard, and we renamedthe first phase to be Look and Listen. This reinforces the concepts withinDadirri and Cultural Permeability that if people look without listening,misunderstandings occur. Co-researchers then stressed the importance ofdiscussion as well as thinking to prevent assumptions being made. We renamedthe second phase Think and Discuss to emphasise the importance of collectivedecision making. Regarding the third phase, we renamed Act to become TakeAction, to give it a more energetic focus.A pictorial and table form of our collaborative PAR model is shown on thenext two pages, suiting the needs of different people’s knowledge sharingstyles.20 This is a slight variation of the original Ganma knowledge sharing – we used the concept in avariety of ways.128