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- 1. Communities of Practice CommunityEcology Institute Initial Discussion Chiara D’Amore, CEI E.D. Dave Baldwin Jim Loving 6/22/2023 Fostering social and ecological health and well-being.
- 2. What Are Communitiesof Practice? A Group of People who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they regularly interact. CoPs are Social Learning groups engaged in collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavor. * • Wenger-Traynor Consulting
- 3. What Are Communitiesof Practice?, Cont. 1- The Domain – Curation of the Group – rules and definitions for a shared area of interest. Must be active practitioners contributing current, lived experiences that are relevant and valuable to others. 2- Community/Create Space one to one interactions between a trusted group of practitioners in a physical or virtual space where participants feel safe, welcomed and productive and can focus, relax and trust each other. Community can take many different forms and varies according to the subject. Some community-making activities include: - Face-to-face meetings; Social media group; Discussions; Webinars/Zoom meetings; Group activities; Shared Knowledge Base of Practices. 3- Practice colleagues in a CoP need to be practitioners in their domain. What does this mean? Simply put, members of the community of practice work towards a shared goal of learning how to do things better and further their knowledge. They generate ideas and resources aimed at improving their knowledge within the domain.
- 4. What Are Communitiesof Practice?, Cont. 4- Manage Knowledge– CoP share knowledge through personal storytelling, based on real-life experience. Members share mistakes, successes and learnings, contemplate new ideas and solve problems together. They become walking, talking repositories of knowledge and best practice which they share and apply in their extended networks or workplaces. A Knowledge Management Repository can retain these stories and lessons learned. 5- Governance - Determine a collaborative governance method based on effective organization, central or distributed authority, and inclusive decision-making.to make shared decisions. 6- Take Care of Participants - A CoP can become emotional. So listen to what’s going on, bring refreshments and empathize with the group. Put the same level of love and care into the curation of events as you want people to show in their participation at them. The key is to make sure the ground rules are set to encourage positive, constructive information sharing. Strive for appreciative inquiry.
- 5. Some starting questionsto help reveal our powers to act Purpose Networks Governance Ownership Finance What is a community group, initiative, project or organisation’s purpose? Why does it exist? What about the other organisations that provision for your communities’ needs? How are these groups, initiatives and organisations networked? What relationships does the organisation hold, and how does it bring to live its purpose and values through them? How are these entities governed? Who has voice in decision making? What are the metrics of success? What are the hard rules, and unwritten culture, of how things are done? How are they owned? What are the essential assets that provision for your communities’ needs? Who owns, controls or has access to them? What laws uphold these? How are these entities financed? What is that finance expecting and demanding? What is extracted and to where? What is reinvested into the community? * in the context of Doughnut Economics in action
- 6. What do wemean by ‘communities’? * 6 Connecting and learning with people applying the ideas in all sorts of places and contexts Learning about the ideas & taking action in your life & home Connecting with others over wider scales to work towards deeper systemic change Connecting and taking action with neighbours locally Street Global Household Town, City Region, Nation Neighbourhood * in the context of Doughnut Economics in action Like-minded Practitioners
- 7. Imagination Sundial Rob Shorter,Communities and Art Lead, DEAL & Rob Hopkins, Transition Network & What If to What Is. Imagination →Ideation →Innovation →Collaboration →New Approaches
- 8. Next Steps forCEI 1- Decide if CoP is good fit for CEI – i.e. Why Start COPs? 2- Decide Practice Areas - e.g. Nourishing Gardens; Experiential Learning for Home Schooled K-12; Green Internship Best Practices; other. 3- Approach potential Practice Partners determining interest 4- Decide on Governance, and technology for group for knowledge base and collaboration in person or virtually – e.g. VR/XR or A.I., Collaboration tool – e.g. Hylo, What’sApp, Signal, Telegram, MS Teams, Circles. 5- Assess whether the groups, if formed, can benefit from CoP training – e.g. see Wegner-Traynor workshops.
- 9. Potential CoP Partners– Sample List Great Kids Farm, Catonsville MD The Farm at Our House, Brookville MD - WAPO article - Manna Food Center, Silver Spring MD Heart Beet Gardening, (Jad Wenger) Earth Regenerators Global Lift Economy, Impact Consulting UMD Agriculture School and Extension UMD Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability Jubilee Climate Farm, part of the New Community Project, with Vine & Fig Tom Benevento Harrisonburg, VA Ned Tilman Howard County Conservancy Other MD-based environmental NGOs
- 10. Additional Information Social ChangeNetwork Thinkific Open Source Marc Jotter microcredentials on Medium Harvard Business Review Wenger-Traynor Consulting
- 11. Imagination and Innovationvia Collaboration Using and Exploiting Artificial Intelligence to further Imagination HBR – Imagination needed now more than ever Martin Reeves – How to Spark Imagination Imagination and Innovation are required for Entrepreneurship Imagination is Key for Innovation and Well Being An Imaginative Collaborative Framework ImaginiariumXR – a vision for a Community Ideation space for Building Regenerative Communities – Dave Baldwin