The ‘Initiating Group’ in a Co-operative Inquiry
In order to anchor a Cooperative Inquiry process an ‘Initiating group’ is set up to launch the enquiry, as far as possible at all levels representing the host community, including relatives and the BCA team of consultant, facilitators and volunteers. The task of this group is described by Heron as three-stranded: to understand and accept the methodology being introduced, so that ‘they can make it their own’; to develop ‘participative decision-making and authentic collaboration so that the enquiry becomes truly cooperative’ to ‘ create a climate in which emotional states can be identified, so that distress and tension aroused by