Collaborative work
I work with people and organisations to explore difficult questions, combine different kinds of expertise and create work that none of us would have reached alone.
Why collaboration matters
I have learned throughout my career that we continue to develop by sharing knowledge and working with others. Collaboration has expanded my experience, challenged my thinking and opened access to perspectives I could not have developed alone.
Current collaborations
With Dianna Dawson
A private peer group for middle managers working in the NDIS. Through regular guided conversations, it creates space away from the day-to-day urgency of leadership to think, talk honestly, share perspectives and work through questions that do not always have easy answers.
It is not training, networking or another meeting, but a considered space for reflection, shared insight and practical perspective.
With Brent Woolgar
An ongoing collaboration drawing on years of shared work across consulting, workshops and Home and Living.
Through the Necessary Conversations, Not Always Reasonable community of practice and the Necessary, Not Always Reasonable podcast, Rebecca and Brent create space to explore complex disability-sector questions through a practical, relational and sometimes challenging lens.
What might be possible
Collaborative work may take many forms. The examples below suggest possibilities
without defining the limits of what could be created.
Projects that bring together practical, sector, lived and research knowledge to explore a question or develop something useful.
Writing, frameworks and practical resources developed through complementary expertise and shared inquiry.
Communities of practice, events, service-development work and new models for bringing people together around complex issues.
Specialist expertise
I am most interested in collaborations where there is a genuine question to explore, respect for the expertise each person brings and the potential to create something useful.
A question worth exploring
Complementary knowledge and experience
Clarity about roles, contribution and decision-making
A shared commitment to useful, thoughtful work
You do not need to arrive with a finished proposal. Tell me what you are considering,
who is involved and what you hope the work could make possible.