Hello everyone,
I’m Roxanne, here by invitation from the core team to run a short experiment in the forum over February.
Over the next few weeks I’ll be starting a small number of discussion threads inviting people to think out loud together about what’s hard, what’s possible and what ‘doing things differently’ actually looks like in practice when it comes to radical organising and HR work. I’ll use this thread to post links and updates as things unfold.
See you around the [virtual] neighbourhood 
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Hello again all,
Here’s a summary of what is planned. There will be three interlinked threads running for several weeks to allow participation at your convenience, plus this thread to discuss how this experiment is designed and see how it developed.
1. We need to organise ourselves differently?
2. What’s hard about the work?
3. What could this [online] space be for you?
The thread topics will wander where they will, though I will pop up with prompts from time to time to support reflective practice and critical engagement (my speciality).
On this thread I’ll happily share the ethical framework, how your words will be analysed and reported on. The exeriment design has been checked against RadHR values and my own working principles (based on well-run conventional and ‘radical’ research frameworks).
The point of the experiment is to provoke some collective sense-making. It is an exploration of community connection, not an online focus group.
Do you have any questions for me?
Roxanne
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Good morning all!
I promised to share some of the background to my threads. This post introduces what I was thinking about when I mentioned the ethical framework earlier.
One of the first things we did was a values check. These are RadHR’s. These are Roxanne’s. We agreed politically-aligned working principles for this project.
- Non-extractive: This is an analysis of participation patterns and structures
- Non-evaluative: Every response is a contribution to shared meaning-making, not a quotable illustrative “data point”.
- Non-managerial: Any facilitation to follow social pedagogies
- Non-hierarchical: Low barriers to entry, conversation led
The deficit language makes me uncomfortable and also seems important to create distance from regular surveys, consultations, workshops, and so on. I could rephrase more positively but I think that would undermine the ‘anti’ positioning.
