The document provides guidance for sharing case stories through a structured workshop process. It emphasizes setting the context clearly without assumptions, sticking closely to what happened without extrapolation, and concluding with reflections on lessons learned. Sharing stories in this way can foster collaborative learning among practitioners by engaging in respectful discussion of real experiences.

1. Singapore, Sept. 2009 Case Stories Workshop

2. Case Stories Workshop Engender collaborative reflection among practitioners by a structured process of sharing stories of successful practice.

5. The “good” case: There and back again

9. I wasn’t there Don’t assume that I am familiar with your context. What you take for granted, for me is a new world. Take your time to set the scene: who, where, when. 3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. In the war of Troy, the Greeks having sacked some of the neighbouring towns, and taken from thence two beautiful captives, Chryseis and Briseis, allotted the first to Agamemnon, and the last to Achilles. Chryses, the father of Chryseis, and priest of Apollo, comes to the Grecian camp to ransom her; with which the action of the poem opens, in the tenth year of the siege. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: Introibo ad altare Dei .

14. Three hats

15. Thank you The pattern language network project: http://patternlanguagenetwork.org The learning patterns project: http://lp.noe-kaleidoscope.org/ Yishay Mor http://people.lkl.ac.uk/yishay yishaym@gmail.com twitter: yishaym This presentation http://www.slideshare.net/yish/case-stories-workshop