The international pd colloquim is a co-operative inquiry of partners from healthcare and educational organisations in the UK, Holland and Australia.

The international pd colloquium's key principles are:

•  to provide a supportive, sustainable and nourishing structure

•  to draw together, weave and refine and polish different concepts from multiple sources

•  to work as an effective team

•  to commit to working as a collective and in the five idiogroups (i.e. Critical Creativity, Culture, Evaluation, Enablement & Discourse)

•  to produce multiple products as outcomes of the colloquium (and from the five idiogroups)

•  to communicate with transparency (i.e. use language that is clear and used with a spirit of openness)

•  to be authentic, genuine and respect individual contributions

•  to promote human flourishing personally and as a collective

This site provides a venue for colloquium members to share and critique work dedicated to deepening our understandings of practice development through critically creative practice, learning and research. For further information, please contact: kate.sanders@fons.org

N.B. A full report of the last IPD Colloquium held near Melbourne, Australia in October 2007 is available for colloquium members to access. Please login (see box on left) and then click on the Co-operative Inquiry link.