Table 2 Meta-themes for collaborative practice
Processes of collaboration | Meta-themes | Major meanings |
|---|---|---|
Interactive-dialogic processes | Maintaining human relationship | Establishing social connectedness |
Walking alongside | Being a companion with equal footing | |
Information sharing | Working with what is present | |
Seizing the present moment | Offering information with the other openly | |
Taking the perspective of the other | Opening up for and accepting differences | |
Aligning and scaffolding | Fitting together the strengths and weaknesses of oneself and the other | |
Negotiated-participatory engagement processes | Feedback-informing process | Using feedback for information sharing and negotiation |
Putting differences to work | Accepting the differences and putting those differences to work constructively | |
Negotiated partnering | Working out what to share and how to share the work | |
Accommodating user participation | Promoting and enhancing user participation | |
Addressing the tension between help and control | Mediating the tension | |
Negotiated-supportive processes | Helping in context | Helping that is specific to situations |
Coordinating | Coordinating services and resources | |
Pulling together | Forging together for social participation | |
Advocating | Campaigning for users | |
Availing | Making clear regarding what, how, and when of available help |