We’re feeling energised as we zoom through the first month of the new year. That’s because we can see what’s ahead, and we’re excited about the possibilities. Are you ready to set sail with us? We’re celebrating what’s been achieved in partnership with people just like you so far, while setting our sights on facilitating more important conversations in more places and having even more positive impact on more communities. We’re ready to embrace where engagement and deliberation are going, are you?
A message of thanks to you - our clients, participants, partners and friends - and hope for what’s ahead. As we head towards the end of a big year of big conversations, our team shares what they’re grateful for, their biggest highlight of 2023 and what’s really lighting them up when they think forward to the new year ahead.
Meet the newest additions to the MosaicLab team: Belinda Lowing and Fox Gillen. Both Belinda and Fox have long career histories that span across interesting and complex roles that have included facilitation and engagement in many forms. Learn more about these two and gain some insights into who they REALLY are through their answers to our fast five questions!
Ever wondered what makes our facilitators tick? Meet the newest additions to the MosaicLab team: Jody Kingston and Aaron Bosch. Both Aaron and Jody have fascinating, diverse backgrounds and have come to MosaicLab and facilitation via interesting pathways. Find out what they love about their work, what impact they hope to have and how they answered a list of fun and probing questions that we like to call The Telling Top 10...
Four language interpreters. Child-minding. Recruitment challenges. Birthday cake and a lot of laughs. These are just some of the unique highlights of our work with Quit Victoria and VicHealth in 2022 on a project to reduce tobacco-related harm in public housing. This case study takes a detailed look at how MosaicLab supported this process with a residents’ panel and sense-making workshops. All to drive improved, long-term outcomes for community and public health.
The Bayside 2050 Community Vision Panel came together to hold the first of its three full days of deliberations immediately before social isolation came into force in response to COVID-19. The rest of the deliberations were subsequently completed online.
This post explains how MosaicLab moved the panel online and our learnings from the experience.
This case study covers a faciltated, internal strategy session provided by MosaicLab to a group of organisations facing disruption due to COVID-19. There was a clear need to support organisations transitioning to a remote-based workforce and equip them with the tools they needed to collaborate, be productive and keep motivated.
This case study flashes us back to late 2018 - to a time when we could meet face-to-face. Representatives of groups most impacted by end-of-life care came together to discuss and come to shared agreement over a very complex, challenge issue - what does dying well look like and how can we help people achieve this?
The learnings and insights from this process are as applicable now as they were then, and the participants have shared some wonderfully candid reflections on their deliberative journey.
Take a peek at some of the online training sessions and workshops MosaicLab has been facilitating over the past few weeks. From community bushfire inquiry meetings to online sessions for the development of wildlife plans and internal training courses - we’ve been very busy in the digital space this past month.
The winners of our ‘working from home’ online team strategy session competition have been announced. And the winners are …. everyone!
Every entrant was deserving and we couldn't pick just two. There were teams working with aboriginal communities, refugees, the homeless, people experiencing family violence and at risk youth. There were others managing complex, significant, community projects and intricate team environments.
From April-July 2017, 35 randomly selected, everyday citizens came together to help Yarra Valley Water shape future services and prices.
The jury deliberated for more than 40 hours over five days across three months to address the remit, working together together to consider complex options and trade-offs, and challenge both their own assumptions and those of Yarra Valley Water.
In this case study we explore challenges, learnings, insights and more that can be considered when planning for future deliberative engagement processes.
In 2017, 27 everyday Barwon Water customers came together to deliberate over what they expect and value most when it comes to water and sewerage services. The group grappled with technical inputs, weighed up complex options, and considered diverse customer needs to determine how to balance prices and services.
The process was underpinned by Barwon Water’s commitment to listen to, respond to and collaborate with its customers. The project had a wide range of positive impacts, and, ultimately, a transformative effect on the organisation and its relationships.
In 2015 MosaicLab was engaged to independently design and facilitate discussions and activities for both the online and face to face components of the VicHealth Citizens’ Jury on Obesity. The process asked 100 everyday Victorians respond to the following remit: ‘We have a problem with obesity. How can we make it easier to eat better?’...
