[Dialogue] What are some of the important partnerships

[steve har]

Re Wiegel's Q:  What are some of the important partnerships the future
needs? [ for Janice and Steve]

I like the thrust of the Accelerate 77 initiative that Seva Gandhi and
others are doing in Chicago

The model is collaborative value creation in a peer oriented learning
environment that is engaging partners.

 I'm liking this model's combinations

-77 Chicago Neighborhoods and local sustainable initiative groups
-1/2 dozen Universities and the ICA-USA program initiative
-40 interns with trained team leaders + 5 experienced colleagues
trying to learn how to be on the task team bus without being the
driver or the facilitator.

It seems to me that collaborative value creation is a new and unexpected norm.

Peer oriented learning happens on a continuum of onsite<->online all
the time and very visible.

So just now not many heroic facilitators & their clients needed; there
is a bigger need for  heroic collaborators with a vision of both
place and community. It is not a culture of complaint. It is a culture
that generates conversations for possibility





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Steve Harrington