Workshop: A Bureaucratic Murder Mystery: Exploring Rigour in Decision-Making Processes
A file needed for an essential meeting has gone missing. There are several potential suspects. Was this incompetence, laziness, or…sabotage?
This workshop has been designed to critically question and explore the processes we use to make decisions in bureaucracies. We will playfully introduce the challenges involved through a murder mystery party, set in a bureaucracy. As our story unfolds we will consider the ways in which we might determine the strength of the evidence that informs a decision.
We will accommodate different levels of participation, but you can expect a highly engaging session full of discussion. At CPI, we believe that the wisdom needed to reimagine government is already in the room, and seeks to create learning experiences where participants can surface assumptions, apply new learning and frameworks, and learn from and with each other, (rather than from “experts”).
Expect to explore your preconceptions about rigour as we playfully put them to the test; discussing, debating and exploring ideas about rigorous processes and credible evidence as the mystery unfolds.
If you are someone who works in complex environments, who feels the tension between a desire to value lived experience and the reality of a reliance on the authority of scientific and academic literature, this participatory, playful opportunity to learn from and with other participants is for you.
Register here to take part in this workshop: https://centreforpublicimpact.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rdumtrDIvEtx9mrK0aRNt7PWZ6_qrP72n
Asitha Bandaranayaka
Senior Associate, Centre for Public Impact
Allison Edwards
Senior Program Manager, Centre for Public Impact
Keira Lowther
Senior Program Manager, Centre For Public Impact
Jess Fuller
Program manager, Centre for Public Impact