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April 16, 2005
Intro2Posting
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Here are some useful things to post:
In the "Mentors" category - post your mentoring profile including areas you mentor in, a summary of your mentoring experience, and your contact info and links
In the "Resources" category - post any good reads, links, upcoming conferences and the like in the areas of facilitation and related areas of learning and practice
In the "Advice" category - post any questions you want facilitation advice on so anyone can add advice and links to resources in the commenting for that post
Posted by jack at 01:17 PM | Comments (0)
April 11, 2005
4.11.05 Planning Meeting Notes
Notes from our April 11, 2005 Planning Meeting
What do we want people to say about the Community Of Practice 20 years (one generation) from now:
- "How we made a difference in their organization"
- We were a model for sharing
- Facilitators support each other
- Repository for Best Practices. It better's their career.
- Experiencing other people's facilitation style.
- Retreat for facilitators
- Network enables who to go to for specific resources for various projects. Not Cleveland centric in 20 years.
- Business community needs to know us here.
- Define the resources clearly
What are immediate things we want to see, share, and take respondsibility for?
- Jack: Mentoring. There's already 12 people.
- Susan: Event planning
Next event notes:
CASE [pig farm]. Squire's valley farm.
Cleveland Zoo
Libraries
Healthspace
Outdoor spaces?
Family life center on 306
What would be meaningful for our next event?
- Getting to know each other
- Posting to the website when you're facilitating an event: calendar
- Building technical capacity
- Sharing learning, resources, and practice
Communities of Practice have domains that are self-organizing. One model: Quarterly meetings with an hour set aside for domain updates. Each domain has it's own integrity of learning.
Can it be as simple as a potluck dinner at one of the metroparks? Can it include an excercise? There was that energy at CASE and people wanted more.
We can do Open Space for each quarterly gathering - possibly around a different question each time, such as: "How can facilitation make a transformative impact in organizations?" We can also use Open Space to incubate domains.
Two themes for future events:
- Nuts and bolts of setting up a business practice.
- Favorite links
- Getting feedback on our facilitation styles
Maybe we can create a calendar (George Nemeth is now working on this) where people can post events other facilitators can attend and observe for learning and feedback
Next steps: locate a free or close to free outdoor venue for a June potluck. If you have suggestions, post them as comments here. The ideal: everyone takes resposibility for their idea and does the research. The planning team can then in our next meeting sort through the ideas, talk, and decide on a good path.
By the way, there is no "chair" of this Community of Practice or its planning team. It will be self-organizing as it's been so far - meaning that leadership is shared.. Jack Ricchiuto will in the meantime take responsibility for convening the planning team. If you want to participate in the next planning meeting, contact Jack @ 216.373.7475.
Posted by george at 11:45 AM | Comments (0)
April 04, 2005
Jack Ricchiuto / Mentor
I've been mentoring facilitators for the past 15 years, mostly in the areas of organization and community visioning and planning retreats. My training includes Gestalt and Open Space Technology approaches. My approach is heavily influenced by Open Space and Appreciative Leadership (also the title of my 4th book - Copyright 2005).
More about me at: www.designinglife.com
Posted by jack at 06:38 PM | Comments (0)