practice networks

prisma is a distributed incubator for communities of practice and on-the-ground hubs to self-organise action-learning journeys.

we’re working closely with Regenesis ¹, who are evolving a practice of regenerative development and design.

at the core of our action-learning is the dynamic interplay between the forward movement of enacting (action) and the ongoing, reflective and integrative movement of evaluating (learning). our work is to develop these methodologies and the infrastructures supporting organising such events.

action-learning journeys are a period of rapid innovation, guided by a facilitator team that has been co-designing with the hubs for a number of months - each event requiring several months of intention development, co-design, alignment and systems onboarding.²

we are designing a [minimum viable governance system](minimum viable governance system) to support…

1. External capability development of event participants
   • code, practice and product quality
   • place-unique (digital) expressions of developmental inquiries into the essence of place ³
2. Internal capability development
   • the facilitator team’s capability to work with the underlying, generative patterns for organising action-learning journeys
   • increasing order of outcome

both streams are in service to activating and making visible the multiple forms of value creation and exchange involved in thriving regenerative community. these events are developed in partnership with hubs, with a core steward (group), and in partnership with regional hubs. the aim is for the event to be a catalytic agent for the self-expression of place-sourced practices, developed and applied to grow bioregional wealth.

[!NOTE] Regenesis Collaboration… The collaboration with Regenesis…

aims to apply this governance system to facilitate the self-organising of place-sourced action-learning journeys…

in order to produce a suite of developmental case studies that engage a broader (global) audience with the work of regenerative development and design

in a way that enables practitioners working on-the-ground to communicate the essence of their work themselves

so that the instrument used to communicate the application of practice can evolve with the community of practice and the evolving practice itself.

See also core processes.

Stakeholder Groups

event capacities are sourced from at least the following four stakeholder groups:

1. participants
2. hubs
3. practice networks
4. partners

these stakeholder development pathways  are being designed to form a 4-8 month onboarding process.

the process-infrastructuring developed to support the organisation of each event instance is also designed to be configurable and self-contained, able to be deployed to a server/ device network local to the hubs hosting the event. the purpose of this is to align with the aim of building capacity in-place for ongoing development of the products incubated during the intensive.

Instrumenting

instruments supporting this process design are:

• case-study publishing stack - an interface into action-learning
• [patterns for facilitator teams](patterns for facilitator teams) - see liberating structures 
• reputation - participant registrations, contribution accounting and participation timelines
• Organisational agreements-making, serving [intensives as incubation processes](intensives as incubation processes)
• practice-currencies and practice DAOs