Making Sense of HUSK: Practice Implications for Social Change Initiatives

Abstract

As an exemplar of bottom-up progressive social experimentation, HUSK provides opportunities to examine how innovative practice is supported and challenged in bureaucratic settings. In this analysis the author uses a sensemaking lens to identify critical issues and questions for those seeking to promote progressive change initiative in social welfare systems. Findings identify essential organizational and managerial supports needed to support service user voice and participation and reinforce the importance of reflexivity in practice and research.

Keywords::

• Social change
• empowerment
• sensemaking
• practice research
• reflexive practice
• institutions