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A Collaborator

A CRCW will be a person

WHO IS: A Collaborator

• Someone who has a willingness to deal constructively with personal and inter-personal conflict, & with conflict between individuals and groups and who has a real desire to recognise with thankfulness the gifts of others, a readiness to receive from those gifts & to co-operate with them for the good of the Church’s mission and ministry.

WHO KNOWS ABOUT

• Group dynamics & the stages of group development

• Decision-making and participation processes

• Networking with other churches, communities and organisations

• Team-building, Group process and the ways in which different people work at common tasks

WHO HAS SKILLS IN

• Group Work, facilitation of formal and informal meetings, chairing meetings

• Working within communities to select options, to contribute to and make plans for collective action (C1 & C2)

• Supporting and Taking action with individuals, community groups and communities to deal with conflict (B6 & B7)

• Networking

• Negotiating

• Forming partnerships

• Working in partnership

• Animating and encouraging others

• Leadership styles

• Planning, allocating and evaluating work carried out by teams, individuals and self (MI6?)

SOME EXAMPLES

• Work with children and young people

• Play work: under fives; toddlers

• Work with young people and youth groups

• Youth Councils

• Community Forums, New Deal for Communities

• Work in partnership with other organisations

• European Contact Group

• Work with black and Asian people

• Work with women’s groups

• Work with lesbian and gay people

• Work with elderly people

• Work with young people

• Work with disabled people