Table 1.
Description of group activities
| Public Agenda | Team’s Activity |
|---|---|
| DAY 1 | |
| Introduction and Overview | Background |
| Purpose of the GMB conference | |
| Hopes and Fears | Introduction of stakeholders |
| Distribution of coloured sheets for writing hopes and fears | |
| Stakeholders are asked to share hopes and fears | |
| Facilitator collects the sheets and cluster on the wall | |
| Concept Model-SD Intro | Draw bathtub with faucet and drain. Use it to explain stock and flow |
| Introduce simple model of resource allocation for chronic disease prevention and treatment | |
| Focus on structure and behaviour relationship | |
| Variable Elicitation | Elicit variables: distribute coloured sheets for writing problem-related variables |
| Cluster the variables on board | |
| Vote to prioritise the variables | |
| Reference Mode Elicitation | Stakeholders are paired to draw behaviour over time graphs of important variables |
| Use separate sheets for each variable | |
| Stakeholders share their reference modes with the stories—facilitator probes for clarification | |
| Structure Elicitation | Selection of initial stocks for model development |
| Facilitator asks stakeholders to identify the variables that changes the stocks | |
| Facilitator continually probes about nature of causal relationships | |
| After adding couple of causal links, facilitator summarises by telling a story embedded in the model | |
| DAY 2 | |
| Review Model structure | Overview of model structure |
| Simulation demonstration | The stock and flow model developed in day 1 is translated into a calculation model |
| The facilitator explains the model to stakeholders and go over few equations | |
| Run the model for stakeholders to observe the behaviour of some of the key outcome variables | |
| Engage stakeholders to suggest changes to model structure and possible future additions | |
| Elicitation of policy options | Facilitator introduces a list of policy options from literature review |
| Discuss with stakeholders to select policy options to be included in the model | |
| Exploration of policy options | Test selected policies on the calculation model |
| Debriefing session | To discuss insights from the workshop and the next steps of the project |