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AoH and Communities of Practice

Submitted by Ria Baeck on September 4, 2008 - 19:07.

Reading and studying about Communities of Practice I see that the web of Art of Hosting is developing step-by-step into the third stage (as named by Etienne Wenger - see attachmnet).

We have come from the Stage of Potential, where the initiators of this field saw that their passion was a worthy domain, and gave it its name. They could do that because they had found their mates - enough potential members to imagine a community. And together they began to understand what was the knowledge and the practices that were valuable to share and develop further.
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Scaling and Sustaining Social and Organisational Innovation

Submitted by George Por on August 12, 2008 - 16:33.

Tim Merry wrote in email to some friends on July 25, 2008:  read more »

"Power to the People" 2.0

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This is the living and expanding version of "Society 2.0: designing an action research into the next civilization" talk that George Pór gave at 2gether08, an unconference held in London, July 2-3, 2008,which was "a festival of ideas, popular technologies and progress." The original slide presentation can be downloaded from Jump Time Players, where "Society 2.0" is blogged about.

 

Taking down all the Berlin Walls

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Society 2.0

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2gather08 was a remarkable, high-energy unconference in London, July 2-3, 2008, "a festival of ideas, popular technologies and progress."

Inspired by meetings I had the week before at the Shambhala Insitute of Authentic Leadership in Nova Scotia, about the Collective Intelligence Convergence website in Montreal, and the "Café U" action research in Boston, I decided to sum up my current thinking on the issues that I started exploring in Spiraling up.

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Submitted by George Por on July 6, 2008 - 10:14.

Open Space session on Connecting Our Conversations

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HOW TO CONNECT AND SCALE UP OUR CONVERSATIONS?

 

This Open Space session was convened by George Pór at the Art of Hosting training in Belgium, March 2008

Participants: George, Mushin, Erik, Louise, Andries, Minke, Toke, Simone

 

KEY INSIGHTS

 

1. Scaling up social innovation goes from loosely connected networks to communities of practice (CoP) to systems of influence. (Meg Wheatley and Debbie Freeze)

 

2. A Community of practice is primarily not about knowledge but about how we care about each other.

3. To connect and scale up conversations there needs to be a core group.  read more »