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
--
Steve Harrington
