Shift in Practice
The RQ Strategy is designed to be easily integrated into the work that organizations, institutions, and agencies are already doing. To learn more about using the strategy, please visit our Resources page.
RQI staff have worked hard for years to make our skill-building methods easy to learn and easy to teach to others. Despite the simplicity of the RQ Strategy, teaching it requires a small, but significant, shift in practice.
A shift:
- From asking questions of clients, patients, students and service recipients to facilitating peole asking their own questions
- From problem-solving for people to helping people learn to problem solve for themselves
- From advocating on behalf of people to building their capacity to advocate for themselves
- From giving information to people and telling them what to do to helping them learn to name what they want to know, need to know and can find out for themselves
Even with the challenge of a change in practice, there are practitioners – staff in the field using RQI – who make the shift quite easily. Some of the most successful practitioners describe RQI's methods as "kind of what I’ve always tried to do, but I had never had a systematic way for doing it" and "just what I’ve always been looking for!"