In this episode Amanda (Inquiry Creative Communication Officer) is joined by Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin [or CR for short] (Inquiry Co-Chair), Sam Anderson (Inquiry Co-Chair) and Darryl Gaffney du Plooy (Inquiry Co-Lead). They bring some of their collective mistakes and learnings in the inquiry’s work to the forefront. Exploring together, they focus on some of their experiences of trying to create a different way of doing things, but finding out the old, harmful ways have emerged.
Sam describes systems: “So yeah patterns, relationships between different things, be that individuals, frameworks, ways of being that are accepted as the norms. So that it's often systems that are around what we do habitually and the way it is. Or the perceived way. It's done that way because it's done that way.”
Catherine-Rose gives an example: “So we just assume, for example, that there needs to be funding that goes into communities, that there needs to be that kind of transfer, that that's just a normal arrangement. And so I think we have questions as part of the inquiry about why do we live in a system where that is what's needed rather than everybody having enough.”
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Wavicle is the podcast series that reflects on the process of being part of Social Action Inquiry Scotland. We delve into what has emerged for us during this process of being part of the Inquiry, we highlight our learnings and unlearnings, and we explore the topics that have been rooted within us.