Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: Helping Others Become More Strategic, Conceptual, and Creative: A Cooperative Inquiry

How can we be more effective in helping others become more strategic, conceptual, and creative in their thinking? This group was motivated by the realization that as organizers, they could teach organizing, but were not good at getting people to think strategically. Doing cooperative inquiry gave them a space to challenge each other's assumptions about organizing, ask provocative questions and learn from one another. During their inquiry, the group started to change the way they worked in their organizations, trying new methods to engage people, such as story telling, metaphors, and other methods that allowed them to encourage participation and reflective practices. In the words of the group ""a gradual, but profound, shift occurred in our assumptions about developing leaders for our organizations."" Through their inquiry the group began to understand that the key issue is to engage others in the experience of strategic thinking. ""We realized that...in order to help people learn to be more strategic, creative, and conceptual, we would have to be intentional about being more strategic, creative, and conceptual in our relationship with them

Effect of immediate initiation of antiretroviral treatment in HIV-positive individuals aged 50 years or older

Submitted by Fábio Marques ([email protected]) on 2018-03-12T19:03:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Effect of immediate initiation of antiretroviral treatment in HIV-positive individuals aged 50 years or older.pdf: 2183723 bytes, checksum: ccb422bcccab25adadd98d7f47e99144 (MD5)Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Dinelis ([email protected]) on 2018-03-20T15:09:24Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Effect of immediate initiation of antiretroviral treatment in HIV-positive individuals aged 50 years or older.pdf: 2183723 bytes, checksum: ccb422bcccab25adadd98d7f47e99144 (MD5)Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-20T15:09:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Effect of immediate initiation of antiretroviral treatment in HIV-positive individuals aged 50 years or older.pdf: 2183723 bytes, checksum: ccb422bcccab25adadd98d7f47e99144 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology. Boston.Institut Pierre Louis d’épidémiologie et de Santé Publique. Sorbonne Universités, INSERM, UPMC Univ Paris 06. France.Institute of Global Health.University College London. London, United Kingdom.Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Centro Nacional de Epidemiologia. Madrid, Spain / Instituto de Salud Carlos III. CIBERESP. Madrid, Spain.Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology. Boston.Institut Pierre Louis d’épidémiologie et de Santé Publique. Sorbonne Universités, INSERM, UPMC Univ. Paris. Paris, France / Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Service de Médecine Interne. AP-HP, Clamart, France.Stichting HIV Monitoring. Amsterdam, the Netherlands / Academic Medical Centre, Department of Global Health and Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands / Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Stichting HIV Monitoring. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Institute of Global Health.University College London. London, United Kingdom.Hospital San Pedro—CIBIR, Logroño, Spain.Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Centro Nacional de Epidemiologia. Madrid, Spain / Instituto de Salud Carlos III. CIBERESP. Madrid, Spain.University of Basel. University Hospital Basel. Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Basel, Switzerland.University of Zurich. University Hospital Zurich. Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology. Zurich, Switzerland.Hospital Parc Tauli. Infectious Disease Department. Sabadell, Spain.Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS. Barcelona, Spain.Patras University Hospital. Division of Infectious Diseases. Patras, Greece.National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Faculty of Medicine. Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics. Athens, Greece.Université de Bordeaux, ISPED, Centre INSERM U1219-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France / Université de Bordeaux. Centre INSERM U1219- Centre Inserm Epidémiologie et Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France.Université de Bordeaux, ISPED, Centre INSERM U1219-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France. / Université de Bordeaux. Centre INSERM U1219- Centre Inserm Epidémiologie et Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France / Bordeaux University Hospital. Department of Internal Medicine, Bordeaux, France.Université Paris Sud, UMR 1018, le Kremlin Bicêtre, Paris, France / Inserm, UMR 1018, le Kremlin Bicêtre, Paris, France / AP-HP, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Service de Santé Publique, le Kremlin Bicêtre, Paris, France.Inserm, UMR 1018, le Kremlin Bicêtre, Paris, France / AP-HP, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Service de Santé Publique, le Kremlin Bicêtre, Paris, France.Southern Alberta Clinic, Calgary, AB, Canada / Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.Southern Alberta Clinic, Calgary, AB, Canada / Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Centro Nacional de Epidemiologia. Madrid, Spain.Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Centro Nacional de Epidemiologia. Madrid, Spain.Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz. Programa de Computação Científica, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain.Yale University School of Medicine. Department of Internal Medicine, New Haven.Yale University School of Medicine. Department of Internal Medicine, New Haven / VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT.Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology. Boston / Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Department of Biostatistics, Boston / Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA.Clinical guidelines recommend immediate initiation of combined antiretroviral therapy for all HIV-positive individuals. However, those guidelines are based on trials of relatively young participants