 Hello and welcome to this quick recap of community conversations workshop three communities as change agents Today we are just going to tell you a little bit about who we are This is us participate and we are open cooperative and we have been making some some short workshops Just to help people get better at building communities. So in this workshop, we started by sort of helping people Introduce themselves, of course, but also to think a little bit about what they want to see change in the world And then, you know, we went through introducing and the open recognition is for everybody community Going through the two loops model having a look at systems convening and then we did some Q&A So this video is going to focus pretty much just on those First couple of parts. Obviously, it's a video. So we're not going to do some Q&A But by the end of it, hopefully you will be able to Understand the two loop model. You'll understand the seven areas of systems convening be able to apply it to your own work And if you've watched the other couple of videos, you will be able to see the relationships between value cycles maturity systems and convening systems There's no stupid questions And if you want to ask questions in response to the video, please check out the open recognition is for everybody community on the participate platform And so we started by talking a little bit about what is a community of practice a community of practice is a group of people who Share the same concerns share the same passions and they want to interact around a particular Domain or area together in community to work towards change. So they're sharing experiences And and information knowledge sharing and they're doing this in community So the open recognition is for everybody community You can get to it really easily from badges dot community And it's a place where the people who are interested in open recognition are interacting with others who are interested in Communities of practice. I mean those interests kind of cross each other. So in this community Everybody is welcome. It is open for everyone And one of the big things that we talk about is how important open recognition is inside of a community And if you haven't heard of open recognition before Go to badges dot community and there's a bunch of signposts to help you learn what exactly that means and to find the Resources to start implementing it in your community. Um, but today we're going to talk about convening systems So convening systems work Is has a couple of different theoretical underpinnings and we start with the two loops model And there's a great video that gives you a more in-depth view of this model But just really quickly the idea is that in society we have dominant systems and we have emerging systems So everything has a life cycle any system that exists Grows and changes and becomes the dominant system and then at some point it starts to decline and as a dominant system is Declining and emerging system is growing to to try and take its place And and so this is what's called the two loops model now from the open recognition perspective And a way to imagine this two loops model is to think about what old-school credentials look like so on paper diplomas on paper degrees You know what we've been using for a couple hundred years in order to verify the skills and knowledge that people have developed And then we think about what does the emerging system look like open recognition? So in 2023 when we're recording this video and There is tons of technology that allows us to recognize more about a particular person's behaviors social skills all of these things so open badges is a really Good Example of an emerging system and those innovations under the blue arrow are other Other innovations in this space. So the idea is as we develop open recognition in the world Old-school credentials will start to decline as being the dominant system And hopefully someday we live in a world where it's not just the credential you have hanging on your wall But rather a robust system of community recognition that helps people in their lives So the next thing we did in the workshop was we did a little bit of an exercise here And we talked about what kind of dominant systems other people are working within and we saw a lot of great examples we saw political systems that people think are the dominant system that's starting to change and and you know things around around really specific systems in terms of like housing resources and how a dominant system say using a technology like I don't know Google Drive could be replaced by an emerging system like a wiki Where you don't have to deal with the sharing features So there's a lot of ways to look at what its system actually is and you can go quite you can really go into it So systems convening is about bringing together people different people that are working in those emergent systems And helping them to facilitate the kinds of conversations That will push an emergent system further along So there's a lot of different contexts for systems convening and and you can find all of these in the social learning labs Site at it's a bit at least systems convening. You can learn a lot more about this But we're particularly focused in convening systems through community development And so these are the seven steps of Systems convening and this is kind of hard to see hard to read And so in the over recognition is for everybody community. We just tried to make it a little bit more graphic So the kinds of the seven system steps are to start with narrative work a craft a convening call and Legitimacy work so getting people involved who can help you grow the sphere of influence Foundry work so working across silos. So for example open recognition is for everybody works across higher education Volunteer communities. We really want to make sure that open recognition is part of community development So that's across silos identity work is helping people to Gain the mental model of what the old credentialing system looks like and what the new one could look like Agency work is developing communities that allow people to to act and have agency and Power work is dealing with the power structures within a dominant system And narrative work at the end the seventh step is to actually share what's what's happened articulate the value So these are some of the steps of what it looks like in practice And so things like building trust by talking to people one-on-one or showing that you understand what people care about These are these are things that you do within community that is the work of systems convening So in the open recognition is for everyone community We had stuff that looked like this and we got really specific and we also Recognize people for doing this kind of systems convening work so for example in legitimacy one of the Pieces of recognition that we have is called the og badger badge And it is a badge for people who have been involved in the alternative system of open recognition for a long time and Things like agency work Allowing members not allowing but by giving members empowering members There's a word. I want to use empowering members to explicitly influence the community Direction by making sure that people are involved and that you have a flat hierarchy so that Everybody can can offer their skills and talents So the next thing that we did in the workshop was we talked about what this kind of systems convening work looks like for everyone and So how you can think about what it looks like in your community And then of course we had a great discussion and people asked lots of questions and We stuck around for a little while so that if anybody wanted to continue to noodle on what Convening systems means in their specific context They add somebody to to talk to and and think about we also have a badge at bit.ly slash system change That dash badge so if you go back and look at these slides and and you know read the ones that have a lot of text on them and Reflect on what systems convening or the two loops model looks like for you. You're very welcome to go and earn that badge these conversations took place in zoom and We made sure that people have access to the slides So if you go to bit.ly slash convening dash systems, you will find these slides that I just ran you through Thanks so much for watching and be sure to check check out the other videos from the community Community conversations workshops