MEDViEW recently hosted its first Open Dialogue Session, bringing together stakeholders from across the well-being and complementary medicine ecosystem, including practitioners, researchers, patient advocates and sector representatives. Building on insights from an earlier stakeholder questionnaire, the session created space to reflect together on key barriers, needs and opportunities for stronger knowledge exchange and collaboration.
A clear message emerged from both the survey and the discussion: stakeholders want knowledge that is easier to understand, easier to access and easier to use in practice. Participants highlighted the need for plain language, multilingual materials, stronger collaboration across disciplines, and more support for co-creation. At the same time, the findings showed strong motivation to stay engaged and help bridge the gap between evidence and practice, helping shape MEDViEW’s next learning and community activities.
These insights will also help shape MEDViEW’s final results, particularly MEDSPACE and MEDCOMM. MEDSPACE will serve as a central digital hub for communication, dissemination, learning and collaboration, while MEDCOMM reflects the wider MEDViEW community of engaged stakeholders. In this way, the outcomes of the questionnaire and the Open Dialogue Session are helpful steps to ensure that both the platform and the community are shaped by stakeholder needs and support more accessible, collaborative, and practice-oriented knowledge exchange.
