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Published Jun 2024

Deep Experience

These are communities that bring together people who share deep context and experience on a specific topic of social enterprise activity or challenge. The goal is to develop leading practices and share these with others.

Introduction to Deep Experience

These learning communities bring together people with deep experience around a specific area of social enterprise activity or challenge.  They have an intention to learn together, solve problems related to the focus area, and develop practices to share widely.

The key attributes of Deep Experience learning communities are that they:

  • Focus on a specific area of shared inquiry and relevance to the social enterprise sector.
  • Leverage wisdom across diverse individuals, organisations, and roles with expertise in the focus area.
  • Build trust among community members to enable the free exchange of information and knowledge.
  • Facilitate interactions that enable members to gain learning from the group and contribute to the group’s learning in the identified focus area.
  • Have an identified coordinator (or co-coordinators) and processes to support regular communication, interaction and learning.
  • Have regular meetings (online) and pursue activities between meetings that create learning value for group members.
  • Develop agreed terms of reference and ways of working.
  • Provide insights and advice on issues related to their area of focus.
  • Develop new practices, guidance, tools and strategies to build capability in the identified focus area.
  • Share knowledge and practice resources with the sector to advance the area of practice.
  • Inform the development of a collective and strategic voice on the topic.

Examples

Examples include:

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