The phrase "achieve a shared understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in contexts where collaboration, communication, or consensus is important, particularly in discussions, meetings, or team settings.
Example: "During the workshop, we worked together to achieve a shared understanding of the project's goals and objectives."
Alternatives: "reach a mutual understanding" or "establish a common understanding."
We discuss the process used to help a range of farmers, industry stakeholders, and scientists to achieve a shared understanding of the cockchafer-pasture-agribusiness system.
Accounting is one of the basic methods through which participants in interaction can achieve a shared understanding of the social world.
They can then extend this self-awareness "across the entire team to achieve a shared understanding of the most effective and efficient modes of working together". In a world full of big and complicated problems, we need super-sized teams to solve them.
By using active listening skills and understanding interests rather than positions, ICU workers can help to achieve a shared understanding among parties in conflict.
To avoid choices being experienced as arbitrary and bureaucratic, policy makers, professionals, and patients will need to achieve a shared understanding of being mutually subject to broad ecological influences and then work collaboratively for meaningful goals within that understanding.
Next steps in research could include, in addition to validating the conceptual map with larger samples and in other contexts, seeking broader consensus amongst international patients, clinicians and health researchers about the content of the conceptual map to achieve a shared understanding of patient empowerment.
Members become aware of their objective group identity only by achieving a shared understanding of their predicament with other group members.
Because the Grade 3 students and teachers would have spent a lot of time together, they would have been more likely than their Grade 4 counterparts to have achieved a shared understanding of assessment criteria.
This needs to be sustained, intense, mutually respectful and focused on achieving a shared understanding of quality problems and joint working to put them right.
Process considerations included building rapport; ensuring sufficient time for discussion; use of clear language; assessment of patient and family understanding; achieving a shared understanding; and respecting patient values and preferences.
Some 'dialogical' methods rely on hermeneutic philosophy to explain how this agreement works, appealing to a 'fusion of horizons' premised on achieving a shared understanding and interpretation of the world.
