Creative reflections on Enhancing Practice 16: new explorations, insights and inspirations for practice developers

摘要

It began two years ago, thenududArriving in Edinburgh the enthusiasm abounds.ududThe first day arrives – oozing anticipation.ududGreat to gather old friends, new friends;ududClans and clever creativity, having funududEnergy in the room, creating, innovating,ududCreative ways transforming minds, creating impact.ududThe International Practice Development Collaborative (IPDC) is loose network of practice developers, academics and researchers who are committed to working together to develop healthcare practice. The IPDC believes that the aim of practice development is to work with people to develop person-centred cultures that are dignified, compassionate and safer for all. One of its four pillars of work is a biennial Enhancing Practice conference. Moving round the world, the IPDC members take it in turns to host the conference; in early September 2016 it was the turn of Queen Margaret University (QMU) in Edinburgh.ududThis article has been created collaboratively by a number of the people who attended this three-day conference. The IPDJ team invited participants to offer ‘the line of a poem’ that captured or reflected their experience and/or learning. These were then collected and shared, and together we created a series of poems and a collection of haiku (a three-line Japanese poem with 17 syllables, 5-7-5). Other participants have subsequently offered reflections, which we would also like to share with you here.ududWe offer this article to you, as a celebration of our time together; our learning, connections and creating, in the hope that there might be some learning in here for you and that you may consider joining us at our next conference in Basel, Switzerland in 2018.