Debrief

Vision

• Vision upside down looks a bit like noise - meaningful?
• Our discussion kept coming back to tools

What is vision?

• a space of possibilities
• a space to dream
• a space for trying things out
• not a vision setting exercise

How can it be generated?

• keeping space open
• reflecting and learning from experience and from the future not just looking backwards
• changing your perspective;

Ideas for tools

• the anti-future story
• scenarios , visioning exercises
• brainstorming, mindmapping and participatory approaches

Voices

• it is about method
• didn't like the questions; changed them
• why are voices so important? why is storytelling coming into OL and KM
• whose voices
• how to engage with these voices or the stories
• purpose, legitimacy, images, metaphor, context specific...

Memory

• keeping it alive: the importance is that it is remembered not stored somewhere to be retrieved
• live memory is most important
• demand driven; need to think about future demand
• when would memory be retrieved by whom, how
• networks are a way to create a live memory; it is less supcetible
• fed approaches re documenting memories; need a librarian to manage the library
• many crossovers between people and knwoledge management
• induction, coaching an dmentoring, handovers
• wikis and other tools to maintain a live record of ongoing
• updating cvs online so that my colleagues know about my skills
• concern about dinasaurs; change to masters

Healing

• linked to memories
• in certain circumstances, we make mistakes, create wounds
• if we don't heal, we halt processes
• how to expose and heal past organisational bounds to enable a productive and friendly environmne
• landmarks (events that mark our personal history), trust, feedback, forgiveness and slft defence
• OS, 360 degrees, focused conversation, rituals

Wisdom

• knowledge adventures, explorations instead of expeditions
• talked about how you suport, enable make room for wise decision making
• one minute of silence

Growth

• changed to 'seeing ripples'
• how can you make the process more visible, making the messy people stuff more visible
• long list of tools, methods to assess the impact and understand the process; analysing and documenting processes as you go, capturing sotries, comments on a white board, wiki, diary, depends on the org
• include the analysis of the process into project proposals
• assembling evidence not only around impact and results but also being transparent, expliciti about issues
• 8 day course; website according to the themes

Fire of the field

• fire was understood as passion; important element, concluded that managemement neesd to be immersed
• passion needs some management; also need elements like planning, self-critism

Glue

• drawn because we are facilitating communities; already shared values, aspriations etc
• talked about trust which led us to a discussion of the size factor
• important to understand value
• signs of a healthy community
• tried to get practical in terms of what worked and didnt' work and a conversation aroudn facilitation
• recognition;
• difference between public and private spaces
• incentives to participate, usefullness of lurkers
• games and having fun to reinforce identity

Is this an activity for KM4Dev? Is it a space for learning and ks issues could cross?

• much of what was on the table was intra-organisation but discussion today is external; ttension
• thought healing was wonderful, could truths be added in with healing in glue
• another set of questions, parallel things are happening, getting overloaded with some many things; which way to go
• quite a bit of overlap with what was discussed;
• reframing is quite good; surfacing of 6 or 7 ?? is a powerful way to do the next round of sharing and learning; talking about the outcome and future; love the idea of explorations, more the image of getting into the forest
• reflects what I have been thinking; untied ends; how important is it to tie things together? what we are experiencing here is what I experience with my colleagues
• important to move towards the clusters; organising it in someway would be useful; mmaking the links to tools, case studies
• reminds me of the idea of invitation; themes are very inviting for my style so the challenge is what invitation do we accept; in our three days there are many invitations; which do we want to accept collectively or individually
• how useful would it be to have feedback online of what we took away from the workshop to find out what people engaged with
• Camilo joins the party
• what are we learning from these workshops; what does km4dev do itselft ie. storytelling approach to pick up on what people have used are using from this ie. river of life
• years ago put out a call on the list asking people how km4dev has helped you; perhaps it is time to put out a call for stories
• contacted 2 weeks after the event to feedback; what are your refelctions? can we quote you on this? use of the tools? to provide evidence from the event and increases the impact of the event
• one page report shared with everyone
• we are leaving traces; some we leave, some we take out to other people, how do you make these traces available to people outside the community
• not about recording obssesively (sounds difficult and time consuming)