CB.15:4.1 - Locate the difficulty where the practices meet

Start with an actual request, referral, shared material, decision or outcome. Ask each side what it was trying to achieve, what it needed from the other, what it supplied and what happened. Recover a case where the connection worked as well as the difficulty when that contrast could change the explanation.

Let practitioners describe their own work and constraints. An organiser’s account can identify a lead, but someone who performs or receives the contribution may expose a different problem. Use CB.1 and OCE.2 when the relevant people, affected interests or actual relations are still unknown.

State the common question in terms both sides can test against their work. They need not agree on every explanation. “Make a referral that the receiving workshop can accept or return with a specific reason” gives the groups a joint subject while allowing disagreement about their wider priorities.

Identify what would make the connection worth each side’s effort. One may obtain a usable result, another a clearer incoming request, payment or experience relevant to its practice. Make an asymmetry visible. If the proposed provider has no reason to take part, ask whether a paid service or a smaller contribution would be worthwhile.