How might we...
- Practice/Emergence: How might we practice the five elements?
- How might Elissa and Mark learn and share what they are learning in COPs along a set of success metrics (conditions, relationships, facilitation, organizing principles, etc.)?
- How might Elissa and Mark identify which COP's we want to be (and whether we want to be in the ones we are in)?
- How might Elissa and Mark understand what it takes to be a high-leverage COP and share about what is needed to get to those success metrics?
- How might Elissa and Mark identify which COP's we want to be (and whether we want to be in the ones we are in)?
- How might Elissa and Mark learn and share what they are learning in COPs along a set of success metrics (conditions, relationships, facilitation, organizing principles, etc.)?
Hypothesis
If we put attention to sharing our learning and practice, then this will build our capacity to do transformative work and develop content for communications.
Design
- PROMPT: Ask JC to send ESP & ML automatic prompts each month, set up schedule
- Prompts: What communities of practice have you engaged in last month and what are you learning? Re: contributing to replenishment more than depletes, strengthens my/our/change elemental’s practice
- Sharing with others that participation is of value
- couch conversations recorded during learning and practice meetings
Metrics
Success measure
- Personal replenishment – does it help us from burning out?
- Content learning – am i learning things that can advance my practice or am i a net contributor to other peoples learning?
- Sharing with others
- Changed behavior: Is my behavior changing? Am I doing things different with staff, clients?
Learnings
Learnings:
- Having something informal, not prepped is still really valuable even without a ton of prep. Bias to action towards sharing is valuable.
- Making + following through on commitment to share is easy to push aside but when prioritized we can make the most of it, go for it.
- Some people were moved and really enjoyed the shared learning, others wondered to what end.
Decisions
Questions
- How might we bring a learning stance without a direct agenda for how it will influence us directly into Change Elemental? – make this an explicit understanding and consider what this means for learning and practice team. (breadth and curiosity to explore; developing a trust in emergence and how insights from one area can lead to unplanned results somewhere else.)
- How might we support others to be in this practice of recording their learning from PD and community of practice experiences for org wid learning, meaning-making, proactive advancement/evolution?
- How might we weave across videos so that we are connecting learning and layering it (both across individuals and all the videos) in this experiment and across experiments?