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10/7/2019 Creating a Community of Inquiry Creating a Community of Inquiry : Creating a Community of Inquiry Creating a Community of Inquiry : : : A Beginner’s Guide to Research Competency (Pt 3) A Beginner’s Guide to Research Competency (Pt 3) A Beginner’s Guide to Research Competency (Pt 3) A Beginner’s Guide to Research Competency (Pt 3) LaVera Crawley, MD, MPH LaVera Crawley, MD, MPH LaVera Crawley, MD, MPH LaVera Crawley, MD, MPH Director of Spiritual Care and Clinical Pastoral Education Director of Spiritual Care and Clinical Pastoral Education Director of Spiritual Care and Clinical Pastoral Education Director of Spiritual Care and Clinical Pastoral Education ACPE Certified Educator ACPE Certified Educator ACPE Certified Educator ACPE Certified Educator California Pacific Medical Center California Pacific Medical Center California Pacific Medical Center California Pacific Medical Center San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA 1 1 st Webinar (Feb. 18, 2016) Review: How to Speed Read a Research Article: • Identified the differences between types of research approaches • Identified strategies for finding research literature and accessing research articles relevant to chaplaincy or spiritual care • Used a method for “speed reading” research articles 2 2 nd Webinar (Mar. 23, 2017) Review: Where’s the Evidence – Intro to Evidence-Based Practice • Gain a critical transdisciplinary understanding of EBP • Learn a standard method for practicing Evidence- based Pastoral Care to inform best practices in the field • Identify strategies for finding “evidence” relevant to chaplaincy or spiritual care practice 3 1

10/7/2019 Today’s Program Objectives By the end of this webinar, participants: • Appreciate the value of curiosity and community for creating new knowledge or using existing knowledge in new ways. • Learn strategies for applying Collaborative Inquiry Practices to topics of interest. • Learn ways to form communities of inquiry to reinforce and support research competency. NACC Certification Competencies Covered by the Webinar: ITP6, OL2.1. 4 Part 1: Cultivating a Culture of Inquiry • Review of Evidence-Based Practice • EBP and the Culture of Inquiry • What are Beautiful Questions? 5 Part 2: Tools and Strategies for Creating a Community of Inquiry • A Brief Introduction to Collaborative Inquiry • Ideas for Forming your own Communities of Inquiry 6 2

10/7/2019 Review of --Based Practice (EBP) EBP is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of the: • Best available research evidence … • … about a given patient population (with their specific characteristics, needs, values, and preferences ) • and the environmental and organizational context, • factoring in other relevant resources – including multi- disciplinary practitioner expertise to make decisions about the care of individual patients or groups of patients. 7 Review of --Based Practice (EBP) EBP provides specific research methodologies for answering questions like: HOW do you know if the care you provide is effective? WHAT IF there were better ways to provide care? WHY is it critical for chaplaincy to become evidence-based? 8 WHY it is critical for chaplaincy to contribute to -Based Research from Original EBM Model (silo) to Transdisciplinary Evidence-Based Practice Model 9 3

10/7/2019 Q: How can non-research trained spiritual care providers begin to develop an -Based Mindset? 10 A: Cultivate a Culture of Inquiry 11 Cultivating a Culture of Inquiry OBJECTIVE #1: Appreciate the value of curiosity and community for creating new knowledge or using existing knowledge in new ways. 12 4

10/7/2019 Cultivating a Culture of Inquiry 13 Cultivating a Culture of Inquiry “ A culture of inquiry is an organizational culture and environment where there is a zeal for questioning and learning; a quest to understand and constantly improve the status quo .” Jaynelle Stichler, (2018) Health Environments Research & Design Journal (2018) 14 1. Time is made available for generating questions. 2. Opportunities and resources for exploring questions are encouraged 5 Signs that and supported. suggest you 3. Questioning doesn’t stop have a Culture at the answers. of Inquiry: 4. Learning from questions is collaborative. 5. “ Beautiful questions ” are welcomed… questions about the questions – even more so! 15 5

10/7/2019 5 Barriers to Cultivating a Culture of Inquiry: 1. Myth: It takes time, resources or support that you don’t have. 2. Myth: Inquiry = highly complicated research methods = “ something I am not trained to do.” 3. Complacency and resistance to change. 4. Attempting to go it alone. 5. Not knowing what to ask. 16 Is there a a Culture of Inquiry in your workplace? What are some of the indicators that your organizational or department culture encourages a culture of inquiry? What obstacles prevent you from exercising your curiosity? (Use the chat feature in Zoom to list some of the indicators from your workplace.) 17 What is a Beautiful Question ? “ A Beautiful Question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can shift the way we think about something and may serve as a catalyst for change .” Warren Berger 18 6

10/7/2019 If they could put a A Beautiful A Beautiful A Beautiful A Beautiful man on the moon, WHY can’t they make a Question Question: Question Question better prosthetic foot 19 What is a Beautiful Question ? “ If they could put a man on the moon, WHY can’t they make a better prosthetic foot? “ WHAT IF a human leg could be more like a cheetah’s?” “ HOW could I test that out?” 20 Phillips’ Phillips’ Phillips’ Phillips’ Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Questions Questions Questions Questions led to a led to a led to a led to a breakthrough breakthrough breakthrough breakthrough in athletic in athletic in athletic in athletic prostheses prostheses prostheses prostheses 21 7

10/7/2019 What are your What are your What are your What are your Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Questions Questions Questions Questions ? ? ? ? (Use the chat feature to list a “why?” “what if?” or “how” question that arises from your work as a spiritual care provider or from your work environment.) 22 Moving from Asking to Moving from Asking to Moving from Asking to Moving from Asking to Action: Introduction to Action: Introduction to Action: Introduction to Action: Introduction to Action Research Methods Action Research Methods Action Research Methods Action Research Methods • OBJECTIVE #2: Learn strategies for applying Collaborative Inquiry Practices to topics of interest. 23 Collaborative inquiry: An Collaborative inquiry: An Collaborative inquiry: An Collaborative inquiry: An accessible relevant approach to accessible relevant approach to accessible relevant approach to accessible relevant approach to chaplaincy research chaplaincy research chaplaincy research chaplaincy research Mar-Apr 2013 Vision • The Action Research (AR) family of practices used in the fields of education, leadership development, and healthcare provides alternative orientations toward inquiry that are more naturally resonant with and familiar to the work of chaplaincy . • One such AR practice called Collaborative or Cooperative Inquiry (CI) places emphasis on forming learning communities among peers who collectively create knowledge as they strive to answer a question of importance to their work and practice. 24 8

10/7/2019 3 Pillars of 3 Pillars of 3 Pillars of 3 Pillars of Collaborative Inquiry Collaborative Inquiry Collaborative Inquiry Collaborative Inquiry (1) a group of peer-inquirers; (2) an evolving question shaped by all members of the group; and (3) repeated cycles of action and reflection on the inquiry question. 25 Making Our Case(s): An Example of CI in Action Making Our Case(s): An Example of CI in Action Making Our Case(s): An Example of CI in Action Making Our Case(s): An Example of CI in Action An Inquiry into the Case Study Method as a Source for the Evidence basis of Chaplain’s Spiritual Care George Fitchett (2011) Making Our Case(s), Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy , 17:1-2, 3-18 26 4 Phases of Collaborative Inquiry Method 4 Phases of Collaborative Inquiry Method 4 Phases of Collaborative Inquiry Method 4 Phases of Collaborative Inquiry Method 1. Forming a collaborative community Finding peers with shared interest, passion, and commitment to the inquiry • topic 2. Creating conditions for group learning • Identifying the initial inquiry question • Agreeing on group processes for working together 3. Acting on the inquiry question (Action) • Each peer uses their work and clinical environment to explore the question through observation and data collection* 4. Making meaning by constructing group knowledge (Reflection) • The group collaboratively reflects on the data and information gathered and generates new questions. 27 9