Shared decision making is all about relationships. It brings together diverse groups of people, who can start with power imbalances between them and a complicated history behind them.

For shared decision making to work, you need to build a foundation of trust - otherwise difficult decisions and hard conversations become challenging as the process goes on.

Building trust doesn’t happen quickly, and you can’t build trust by accident. “There should be a level of tension. If you’re comfortable in shared decision making, then you’re not really trying” says Catherine Liddle, CEO of SNAICC.

Find out how and why organisations and governments are taking the time to listen and understand the communities they work in before embarking on a shared decision making process. And, what it looks like when those relationships are put to the test.

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Making Place Matter: Who Decides is a podcast from PLACE, produced by Deadset Studios.

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the land on which this show was made.