Table 1.

Use of creative methods within our study.

Method	Used for	Used in
Use of artifacts	● Introducing self to others in the group and opportunity to make overt what matters to them as persons ● Facilitating in-person relationships with participants before later follow-up interviews ● Providing a framing for the research participants to describe their experiences as LSS practitioners	● Workshop series 1 ● Workshop series 2 ● Semi-structured interviews
Use of display boards creative workbooks	● Providing a means for research participants to note further, deeper knowing and suggestions not articulated verbally or arising from cognitive thinking alone ● Providing an adjunct for research participants to confirm, refine or refute program theory	● Workshop series 1 ● Workshop series 2
Use of word clouds	● Allowing research participants to identify relationships and meaning in the CMOc development to date	● Workshop series 2
Use of creative constructs	● Facilitated participant feedback and adjudication of the program theory ● Facilitated thematic analysis	● Workshop series 2
Use of Evoke© cards	● Providing a creative method of exploring feelings and gaining insights into experiences of engaging with the intervention	● Workshop series 1 ● Interviews ● Workshop series 2
Use of reflexivity by researchers and participants	● Making sense of various data sets to develop coherent and plausible accounts of the phenomena under investigation ● Maintained an awareness of the question of power and having a relationship with all participants	● Workshop series 1 ● Interviews ● Workshop series 2
Use of group process evaluation to identify what is working, what is not working	● Helped to identify how the participants experienced the combination of cognitive and creative methods used	● Post-workshop 2