ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on a potentially transformative research project and explores lessons learned thus far, from attempting to foster service-wide critically reflective practice in an Australian non-government organisation. It focuses on challenges encountered from the perspectives of Christine and Chez who is responsible for project managing the research inside the organisation. The chapter emphasises the importance of our partnership in navigating the challenges and suggests ways forward to embed critical reflection and shift organisation culture. It should be noted our narratives about the project are current at the time of writing. The Empowering Children's Voices research project was conceptualised in 2017 following the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and publication of the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations in which the need for children to participate in decisions that affect them is highlighted. Critical reflection inherently involves challenging thinking, and problematising the taken-for-granted.
