ABSTRACT
The Good Practices Audit (or GPA) is a three-phase process helping people to search their experiences as a way of coming up with good responses to common problems they encounter. It involves a mix of individual reflection and collaborative critical analysis and is focused on helping people deal with difficulties they have themselves identified. On the surface it appears as highly task oriented and instrumental enough to satisfy the most sceptical, resistant, left brained, insecure, anal compulsive
educator. What could be more focused than an actuarially inclined process of auditing? In fact, once the GPA gets going, the reflection, sharing and analysis become much more spontaneous and unstructured than the method seems to suggest. The conversations that ensue are open and unpredictable, yet they happen under the guise of a well-structured series of tasks.
