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ICR Conference - Laura
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make sure
so.
Ok, thank you for,
um, letting us take this time with you.
So,
um, you attended the conference?
Did you attend all of it, or just certain parts of it? Do you?
Was it the live streams and the workshops or
Yeah, it was mainly the live streams.
I think I attended one of the workshops, um, as well,
but I I couldn't save the whole whole bit.
So mainly the live streams
actually was great. So got a bit of context.
So really, um, all sort of asking you really is, um
what did you
sort of thinking back to the parts of the country? Tended? What did you take from it?
What did you find useful?
What did you maybe find not so useful if there was anything, um,
other things you've taken back, um, into your own work,
anything really, That
you feel you wanna share about it?
Um,
I think for me,
it was it was everything was useful because I
was literally right at the very beginning of exploring,
Um,
the whole concept and the whole environment of of, you know,
of of everything around this.
So, um, to have everyone in a room and kind of give me these amazing bits of, um,
their knowledge and experience and,
um, kind of top 10 dos and don't in a way, you know, it was a stop to with lovely people,
um, just kind of sharing their story, and their their knowledge was,
um, absolutely amazing for me as a a starting point. And I think,
um, hearing it all like that summed up, I think I
It it was, um, obviously easy for me. I I'm more of a visual learner.
So actually, having that kind of, um,
people talking and, um, doing things really grounded it.
And and I think for me as well I didn't realise quite maybe how naive I was about, um
coming into it. So I've done a lot of events, but I think hearing, um
from people who have shared their lived experiences and
the negative sides of that as well was really,
really important.
So important for me to and to now, I've taken that,
um, with me when I'm planning
future events and thinking way ahead of time and what I
want from them and how I can make the spaces comfortable.
And how I can, um, ensure there is trust and, um,
a balance of power around the final,
um, products as well.
Um, so
a lot to learn. And I still think
it's that, um you just gotta start and then learn if you you do see wrong,
apologise and and listen to people.
And I think that came across really strongly as well that actually
just talk to people like get, um and make sure they they're with you as as you. You go on
a
journey with them kind of thing.
Um, so those were my main big takeaways, I think from it.
I mean, that's that's really great, because I think
one of the things we
kept coming up in the conference and I think
came up in some of the satellite workshops and
things was the idea of that relationship with the
storyteller and it being on an equitable footing.
And it,
um,
you know,
not taking them or their story for granted and
not treating them like a commodity to get to the
the end, your project or your work is aiming for. And
so I've I've been glad to hear from you and
some of the people who shared their stories that that
has been
something that came out of it, that that value, that sense of values around.
Yeah,
I think it's, um
maybe a lot of people if they're not, if it's not already ingrained.
It feels like it's just a nice add on
and it's like it's it's that's not
what it is. It's It's like, Oh, yeah, we'll just invite someone.
They'll have some free time. We don't have to pay them we don't have and it's like
it's It's almost like they're treating it
like an embellishment rather than something that
needs to be core to everything that they're doing and how they're kind of
like maybe developing a service or doing the the research and the impact. And it's,
um so they're they're completely missing
the point. I think,
um,
and again that that's I think, what I took away as well as like now it, it's it's got to
run all the way through everything you do within that project.
Um, it can't just be that
little,
nice little embellishment on the end that you can kind of crop out all the other
bits and just take that one bit that you want and put it out of context.
You have to kind of
keep it in a a whole.
That was important.
That's it. Because I think some people see storytelling as a
quote grabbing exercise, don't they? And it's,
you know, you'll you'll
pick out that one.
Good thing
you ignore everything else that's been said and I mean,
that's what we we very much try to.
You know, the story is treated as a whole. We don't chop them up or
anything, and the whole story is what gets
looked at when trying to get insights out of it. So,
yeah, it's, um
yeah, I mean And you do you do encounter?
I think people on projects who do very much see it as, oh, we'll just, you know,
get some stories and we'll get some good quotes to embellish the report,
and it's actually
it should be the basis of the report, not the
like this feeling of panic because like Oh, God,
like we need these additional bits as well now.
And we we didn't have time or we didn't plan them in earlier, and
now we just got to quickly.
It's that quickly thing. It's like right. Survey monkey.
Quickly ask some people, get some sound sound bites, add it in,
um, and
which
you can judge people for. But I think it it It can be very understandable if if, um
say no one else has been pressuring you to do it in a different way,
and you haven't had any training or you haven't really thought about it,
I think it's It's a default for a lot of people, isn't it to kind of, um,
quickly have to do it at the very, very end? So,
um,
yeah, As I said, coming along on the conference really helped, um,
open my eyes to how to do it better.
So I've been sharing that with colleagues.
That's good to hear, and it sounds like it's from what you're saying.
And it sounds like it's giving you some tools to
go and try out and see what works for you and the people you're working with. And
that is
really good. Um,
so it's just
from
my own curiosity, really. Um, just wondering what, um
how did you find the format of the conference with the live streams and
things like that was it. Did it work OK for you? And
it did. Yeah, Absolutely.
I mean, I'm quite comfortable in the digital space anyway, Um,
but I thought it ran. It had a lovely, um
uh, I wanna say vibe, but I don't I feel like I'm too old to be saying vibe, but, um,
it had a lovely atmosphere and feel to it. Like all the speakers, Everyone was,
um, just really open.
And it flowed really nicely and like the different, like,
little segments of sound bites and stuff.
And then it kind of was broken up with the workshops. And
so there was enough time to to have a break.
Um, there was enough opportunity to kind of network a little bit together.
You had the the chat function open so people could kind of,
um, chime in
and, um, share things. So
that was
that was really lovely.
So, um, and I know it can be really difficult to have, like,
that feeling of participation or, um,
or fashion networking,
where you get to kind of wander around a room and and meet lots of people.
So I know it can be really difficult at the moment with the APP, but no, it, um
it it felt open enough and and, um, helpful enough to me.
Oh, good. That's good to hear.
Um,
I suppose just before we finish there anything else you'd like to add?
It's fine to say no if there isn't it.
Oh,
yeah, just that. Thank you for putting it on.
Um, honestly, it it's someone who was just learning about it.
And I've said that a few times, but it honestly,
just there's a serendipitous kind of, um, timing that I came across it
and, um, yeah, I could just
fast track my learning,
so Yeah. Thank you.
Yeah, great. Thank you very much. I'll just stop recording.
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