Open Process Interpreting

Please note. this is a LIVE CPD delivered remotely via Zoom.
You will have a proper, active teaching session with back and forth, and feedback.

This is not a pre-recorded video of someone reading a PowerPoint.
We take professional development seriously, and we hold ourselves to high standards of training quality.

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In this interactive workshop we explore Stephanie Clarke’s ‘Open Process’ approach to interpreting.
Amongst other things, this approach encourages us to work with colleagues and customers to be able to apply the most appropriate interpreting model (etc.) flexibly and dynamically at any given time.

It provides greater equality for deaf customers by asking us to more actively involve them in the decision-making process.
In this workshop we will explore some of the ideas raised in this approach, before seeing how we could apply these to how we work.
We will test out some of the practical application of these methods to a ‘co-working online’ scenario using role plays with deaf participants.
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An interpreter’s job is to serve the Deaf clients’ needs. So, why must interpreters make all the decisions for Deaf people in interpreted situations?

“For me, I had to start by examining my own power and privilege. Upon entering any situation, I must ask the questions;
Why am I here?
Who owns this process?
The Deaf person does
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Stephanie Clark, 2018

meeting people, using numbers, weather, transport and directions

at home, people, animals and objects, using numbers, interests and activities

getting around, exchanging information, refreshments, and using numbers