Situating Research & Practice

When you bring your issues to others for discussion, like we did in the second half of our Research & Practice time with Jon Wergin, things happen...

You get more books to read like The World Cafe. And more theories to investigate like Reginald "Reg" Revans' Action Learning Process. Beautiful...

Revans, according to the all knowing Wikipedia "strongly held that the key to improving performance lay not with 'experts' but with practitioners themselves. Hence he devised Action Learning as a process whereby the participant studies his own actions and experience in conjunction with others in small groups called action learning sets
Click here for the all knowing Wiki, and Click here for a bit more on Reg.

Sounds like fun, eh?

What really is the point of learning in a paradigm challenging program on Leadership & Change if you don't have any fun or expereince a little happiness at the end of discussion about research & practice?

I am quite happy with the results of participating in the small group discussion. Jon's observation recording the following four aspect of our discussion group:

Information seeking
Probing
General discussion of the issue
Problem solving - (suggestions / solutions)
He thought our groups moved from information seeking to problem solving rather quickly.

My group disagreed and Jon conceded that with three groups, he may not have been present long enough to observe our interactions as discussions criss-crossed various modes of inquiry.

End session one in Keene, NH.