Triangulating Our Professional Development: Learning from Adjacent Practices

Nancy WhiteFull Circle Associates

7009 23rd Ave NESeattle, WA 98115

206-517 4754 - nancyw@fullcirc.comhttp://www.fullcirc.comSession Materials Wiki:

http://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/Triangulating+for+Professional+Development

All materials in this session are Creative Commons, Attribution license

Three Agenda Items

• How do we learn as professionals? (and a thought about connections)

• Situating our learning in the context of adjacent professions and skills (aka “transdisciplinarity”)

• Networked professional development (aka “triangulation”)

A POINT OF DEPARTURE… SUMMER ‘09

HOW DO YOU LEARN ABOUT

YOUR PROFESSION?

CONTEXT, POWER & PERSPECTIVE

Disciplinary knowledge (university, formal programs)Experiential knowledge (practice, formal, informal)

Caveat:Context, Power & Perspective

Where/field of work

Who holds the power

The diverse views

“… be sure they can answer these questions: Why am I learning this? How is it relevant to the world I live in now?” (Drive, Dan Pink)

CONTEXT, POWER & PERSPECTIVE

Disciplinary knowledge (university, formal programs)Experiential knowledge

Adjacent knowledge

TRANSDISCIPLINARITY

Discovery….

Transdisciplinarity connotes a research strategy that

crosses many disciplinary boundaries to create a holistic approach. It applies to research efforts focused on problems that cross the boundaries of two or more disciplines, such as research on effective information systems for biomedical research (see bioinformatics), and can refer to concepts or methods that were originally developed by one discipline, but are now used by several others, such as ethnography, a field research method originally developed in anthropology but now widely used by other disciplines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdisciplinarity

CONNECTION:Paired Drawing…

Bridging….

“ADJACENT” PRACTICES

Knowledge Workers

Visual ArtistsVisual Artists

Project ManagersProject Managers

What is adjacent to your work?

“ADJACENT”

DISCOVERY…

Host

Counselor

Facilitator

Designer

Writer

Program Mgr

Dispute Resolution

Program Mgr

Facilitator

Counselor

Host

Designer

Writer

Dispute Resolution

Dispute Resolution

WHAT IS TRIANGULATION, ANYWAY?

So… we never got to the material from here down, so I’ve typed in a few cryptic notes in the slide notes area!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/opendemocracy/267705194/

Alone... isolated

Hopefulness…support

Connection

Innovation…

External Validation

How?

• External support person(s)

• Learning Connection to a domain-

related network or community

• Intentional external validation

What are useful networked learning strategies?

• Network tools• Network practices• Identity

http://www.flickr.com/photos/silvertje/3582297307/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/intersectionconsulting/4412472230/

What are useful networked learning strategies?

• Network tools• Network practices• Identity

Social ecosystem

getting to know

Wreading

Lilia Efimova http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/06/10.html#a1235

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Linking as personal recommendation

Lilia Efimova http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/06/10.html#a1235

Social ecosystem

• Distributed conversations

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Lilia Efimova http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/06/10.html#a1235

Social ecosystem

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What are useful networked learning strategies?

• Network tools• Network practices

• Identity

Identity!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gauri_lama/3039881498/

Our notes and photos of drawings/flipcharts are here: http://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/Triangulating+for+Professional+Development

I’ll add the post it notes when John sends them around!

Photo Credits: Thanks to Lilia Efimova,Roland, Open Democracy, Mr. Thomas, [Henning], onkel_wart, illustrious bean and Mathemagenic for sharing their Creative Commons on Flickr.com•http://www.flickr.com/photos/watz/1472273440/http://www.flickr.com/photos/opendemocracy/267705194/

•http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathemagenic/4014282560/

•http://www.flickr.com/photos/illustriousbean/571630048/

•http://www.flickr.com/photos/onkel_wart/2487637968/

•http://www.flickr.com/photos/muehlinghaus/240944635/

•http://www.flickr.com/photos/exalthim/2063912337/

•http://www.flickr.com/photos/roland/40344973/

•http://www.flickr.com/photos/gauri_lama/3039881498

•http://www.flickr.com/photos/silvertje/3582297307/

•http://www.flickr.com/photos/intersectionconsulting/4412472230

Nancy can be found at

http://www.fullcirc.com

http://www.Twitter.com/NancyWhite

Nancyw at fullcirc dot com