​​Harvesting Pad 16: Jarod Holtz
​​Part of "DandDTrans," a community of inquiry and action regarding the role that dialogue and deliberation can play in addressing the mega-crises of our time
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​[Jarod Holtz]
​​[jarod@calabs.org]
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​​Please use the this space to share your thoughts now about Tom’s original question and what occurred for you over this past month of involvement: What do we, as members of the dialogue and deliberation community of practice, have to be and do to enable our most positive transformational impact in the face of emerging global crises which fundamentally challenge our business-as-usual habits and systems? 
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​​Use the queries below if they help but don’t feel bound to respond to them or be in any way limited by them. Tell the stories and give the details that will make your ideas and experiences come alive. 
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​​Please write your post in the "My DandDTrans Story" section below the three prompts that follow:
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​​What you gained:  What new insights, challenges, ideas, inquiries, or actions came up for you from your participation this past month? What possibilities have opened up or been further reinforced?  
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​​What you experienced: How did you feel or change at different points in this process? Which processes did you participate in? Which were new to you? For processes you’ve experienced before, what was it like doing them online? What worked for you, and why? What didn’t? How might you use or change these processes on another occasion? What about the web tools used? Maestro? Hackpads? Zoom (if you experienced that)? Any others?
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​​What next: What are you doing, will do or might do as related at least in part to the question that brought us together and/or as a result of what we have done together? Who else would (might) you involve? 
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​My DandDTrans "Story"

​​Though due to work conflicts I wasn't able to participate as much as I would have liked the DandDTrans experience in January was excellent overall. 
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​​What you gained:  Plenty of new insights came to mind during the conversations, -- all of which I deeply enjoyed in the moment. However, it was difficult to carry them past that moment of inflection. Group note taking was certainly helpful in that regard -- and I'm looking forward to what additional nuggets are gleaned and perhaps connected with others as this Harvesting process continues. 
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​​What you experienced: I participated in both a Bohm dialogue (new to me) as well as a World Cafe (not new to me). Both were great though conducted in the virtual realm I did not notice a great deal of difference between the two in a methodological sense. It didn't seem like the nature of the conversations was all that different between the two, either. Depending on the goal of each conversation, tweaking those methods for the virtual world might make sense.
​​The tools were generally great. The initial upload process of knowing which was for what, took a little time. Maestro and Hackpad both seemed solid. I would be interested in testing one part of Maestro more -- the Hand Up function. Anything that could better facilitate a silent "sub-dialogue" while any one person is talking would be phenomenal. This could be a great multiplier when someone is speaking along the lines of what someone else believes. 
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​​What next: I'll still be hoeing the same ditch -- trying to figure out better tools/methods to have these sort of conversations at scale, with people who rarely or never have conversations of this depth. 
​​I would be interested in anything this group continues to do. 
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​​Many thanks for all your effort! Especially everyone who has dedicated their time to setting all of these moving parts up in a way that fantastically facilitates the continued evolution of this group. Hands up to you all!!
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