Dealing with Difficult Situations while Facilitating PPI Groups

This session is an adaptation of a series of successful national workshops on facilitation of PPIE groups run between October 2023 and March 2024. The workshops made use of a forum theatre approach where a challenging situation typically encountered in PPI facilitation is acted out so that workshop participants can then propose ways to resolve it. The session will be based on video clips of these challenging situations and use them to raise awareness of the challenges and emotional labour involved in PPI facilitation, enable sustained reflection in a containing space and encourage problem solving and peer learning.  

The session is not meant as facilitation training. We will make use of film clips produced in the context of forum theatre events to surface some of the challenges that are specific to PPI activities, engage a critical examination of and reflection on these challenges and to promote collective work towards solutions to facilitation challenges. 

The session is primarily intended for staff working directly on PPI activities (both researchers and professional services staff). However, by promoting reflection and a deeper understanding of PPI practice it will also benefit staff with little to no experience of PPI work. 

 

This session will be led by:

Polly Kerr, Oxford University 

 

Dr Stan Papoulias, King’s College London