Question Three: Who participates in learning communities and what are the expectations of individual participation?

Groups One through Five (Notes Not Distinguished)

Who

• Add to the end of the question - who want to maximize their learning and be deliberate and purposeful
• We all participate in avariety of LC's
• People who value a collaborative learning process, alternative and democratic process
• Depends on context - some are open, others closed, connected to need
• the "right" people - the "whole" system in the room
• Those who voluntarily choose to participate
• Those interested in process
• People interested in transformative results
• People who are told to by their funder

Expectations

• Respect
• Equality - everyone is a teacher/learner leave aside degrees - valuing all perspectives regardless of position/power
• Authentically being prepared to participate
• Listening (actively)
• Courage to speak up, diagree/agree
• A willingness to be vulnerable
• Be prepared to be a beginner, beginner's mind
• Be open to different ideas without judgement
• Surface our own assumptions
• Be prepared to learn something about ourselves
• Openness to change in perception, opinion etc.
• Taking responsibility for learning process
• Taking responsibility to get our own needs met
• Have fun, bring sense of humor, playfulness
• Commit to reflect on experience/content
• We will apply our learning
• confidentiality when needed
• Being willing to participate
• Behave according to our stated, shared values (practice what we preach)
• Commitment to participate through ups and downs of group process
• Commitment to the success of everyone in the group and the group itself
• Honesty
• People do what they say they are going to do
• Making and honoring commitments
• Shared responsibility for clarity of goals and purpose
• Share what you learn with others outside the community
• Make connections between learnings that are ccurring - take it to a higher level of synthesis
• The option of "passive" learning
• Bring all of who you are into the room
• Recognize how you are contributing, benefitting - reflective process and bringing that back to the group
• Honorable closure