A new approach to socializing insights from a research study to drive transformative change through a "learning chrysalis" - a series of facilitated, 1:1 peer-to-peer conversations.

1. From Insights
to Conversations
Mitra Martin
Learning Pattern Designer

2. everyone is
overwhelmed by
content
conversations help us make sense of content

3. random coffee
pattern 1:
one a week, 25 minutes, LinkedIn
conversation starter, #randomcoffee pic

4. people walker
pattern 2:
half hour walk, meet at a convenient spot

5. empathy session
pattern 3:
5 minutes sharing, 2 minutes stillness, 5
minutes reflective dialogue, switch

6. distilling the
patterns
what do these have in common?
"tools of conviviality" - ivan illich
● two people
● using time to frame
and focus
● light guidelines for a
productive and rewarding
session
● easy, cheap, accessible

7. how can we use this
pattern?
helping clients get more
value out of great research
● our clients invest heavily
developing insights
● a research project creates an
opportunity for real change
● but often the organization
doesn't have the capacity to
really integrate the learnings
● and all those great insights
stay locked away in a big
deck...

8. what if our clients could get an even
greater return on research investments?
research phase integration phase

9. socializing the
insights
● develop customized set of
peer-to-peer learning
missions for client based on
research/context
● in-person or Zoom-based
team kickoff/orientation
● 6-8 week integration period
○ weekly pairups
○ share new insights from
conversations on portal
● final in-person or Zoom-based
harvesting session

10. this helps you stay part of a high level conversation
● witnessing how research insights
get transformed internally into
on-the-ground change
● get details for richer, more
impacful case studies of
transformation and value creation
● stay part of the conversation
without running the show
● identify new opportunities for
research arising from dialogue

11. what are these "missions"?

12. Time Travel
Interview
purpose: to access the wisdom
that the future you already has
❏ familiar "interview"
structure
❏ future date
❏ narrow or wide lens
❏ questions spark
imagination
❏ probes uncover details

13. preparing
the soil

14. Mirror
Interview
❏ two-way interview
❏ want to ask
❏ want to be asked
❏ catalyzes thoughtful
attunement
❏ open or circumscribed
❏ opens a safe, deep
interpersonal field
purpose: make it easy to have an
rich, meaningful 1:1 interaction

15. integrating
the content

16. Empathy
Mission
❏ opens space for fuller
response to content,
such as a report
❏ A/B share structure
with timed stillness
❏ probes and framing
invite deeper, more
personal reflection
purpose: allows deeper sharing
around responses to research

17. harvesting
the learnings

18. Appreciaions
❏ creates closure and well
feeling
❏ appreciate about
other
❏ appreciate about
self
❏ A/B timed share
structure
❏ focus on observed
experience - not judging
purpose: illuminate the positive
being experienced interpersonally

19. our services
research audit development of
p2p missions
peer-pairing systems tool selection
invitation launch facilitation assessing

20. Mitra's frustration with conventional learning paradigms began in 1997
when she realized that outstanding scholastic achievement in revered
academic contexts hadn't prepared her for the rich and meaningful life she
sought.While working in advertising in New York, she went on a business
trip to Buenos Aires and became obsessed with social, improvised
Argentine Tango and its rich tradition of social, embodied learning.
After leaving her job in marketing research in Los Angeles, she co-founded
Oxygen Tango, a learning ecosystem where Mitra reinvented the way social
dance was taught by prototyping learning pattern innovations. She
developed contexts that leverage the power of cohorts, peer-to-peer
learning, and self-paced experiential learning while de-emphasizing the
formal one-to-many teacher-centric class structure. Her courses The Tango
Challenge, as well as her format innovations — learning labs, mini-lessons,
and tango buddies — are being used in communities across the U.S.
Today, she is bringing the peer-to-peer learning framework she developed and
evolved through facilitating many thousands of 1:1 learning interactions, to
researchers, innovators, and strategists looking for a new way to help insights
come alive within organizations. Mitra has facilitated thousands of
workshops including learning experiences for Google, Caltech, and The Ford
Theaters. She is a graduate of Princeton University with Honors.
Mitra Martin
https://www.mitramartin.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitramartin/

21. let's tango! mitra.martin@gmail.com
(310) 854-2466

22. Copyright 2018 Mitra Martin