Presentation Wanda Steps

1. Appreciative Analysis of Practices
“Everything you pay attention to grows”

2. What is Wanda? (Valuing – Analyzing – Doing)
 Co-reflection method (group) (Bove, 2009; Mortari,
2009)
 Critical analysis of practices from different
perspectives

3. Goal
Gaining new insights and new practices
→ improving quality for children, families, staff (wellbeing)
through a reflection process

4. Wanda in practice

5. Wanda =
• 5 steps to reflect on a situation from different
perspectives
• Within one session of 1,5 -2 hours – every 4-6
weeks
• A guided process by a facilitator
• Working on confidentiality and safety (process)
• Accentuating professional and institutional
change
• Part of a bigger process

6. Phase 1: Looking back
 What do we still remember about the last session?
 What did we learn from the session?
 Did we put anything in practice?
 Contributor
 Group
 Only applicable after the group has
already done at least one previous session

7. Phase 2: Selecting a case
 Situation that “moved/surprised/shocked” something
inside the person
 Concrete case (like explaing a photograph)
 The group decides which case will be handled
 Urgency
 Group value
 The contributor is the “owner” of the case
and has a specific question (can still be
undefined in this phase)

8. Phase 3: Questioning
 Explorative open questions (who, where, what, when, how) to make the
case more clear
 Questions about all the people involved and the context
 No interpretation or judgment
 Try to find out why the contributor
selected this case, what is his need?
 We don’t change the others, we change our
perspective on the situation
 Try to define the positive learning question
of the contributor

9. Phase 4: Collecting ideas
 What are the possible different perspectives, usefull in
this case?
 Use glasses, or any other method to help participants to
take the position of somebody else
 What are all the possible different
hypothesis’s
 It is not about who is right or wrong
 Contributor listens

10. Phase 5: Giving various kinds of advise
 New possible ways to proceed with this situation
 Advice on different levels:
 To the contributor,
 To the team,
 To the organisation
 Not ‘the’ solution but opportunities
to explore
 Contributor chooses which advices
he wants to put into action