Question Five: What environment/culture encourages collective learning and how is it created and sustained?

Groups One through Five

• People feel needed and valued
  • and that there is a sense of purpose
  • a collective/shared vision
  • people feel safe to share and can make mistakes or not know answers
  • a place to create both answers and questions
• How is it sustained?
  • Shared responsibility and commitment for learning environment
  • Encouragement to bring gifts to the table; encourage eath other
  • leadership is developed to encourage and support new participation while retaining group knowledge and memory and creating dynamic vision
• Compelling to your learning style
• Atmosphere of valuing learning and questioning
• Acknowledging and honoreing self interest and preservation; balanced with interest of the whole
• Acknowledge differene in experience, knowledge, etc. (acknowledging power difference); how to equalize the playing field = safe learning environment
• Documentation and access to this information
• Regularity is important, security in knowing that this exists
• Relationship development - keeping the connection; by staff and by members
• Consistency of effort
• Check-in about product and outcome in addition to shared learning
• Humor, laughter
• Practice what we preach - balance
• What is collective learning?
• Physical enviroment - space, lighting, ventilation, etc.
• Culture of openness, respect and questioning
• Sustained? - collective learning or community of learners
• To sustain it, assume responsibility
• Sustainablity requires continous feedback to make sure we are maintaing appropriate environment and culture
• Sustainability that continues to shift; new ideas, etc. shifting of culture
• Replication of "cell splitting" by interest or locale, etc.