Peer Action April!
Your time to dive deeper & get creative!
After 2 months of guided learning in Feb & Mar, we invite you to dive deeper into the field in what we refer to as ‘Peer Action April’. In short, you will have 4 weeks to organize in groups of 2-5 people, either realizing a change project of your choice or embark on a peer learning deep dive, zooming in on a particular topic within the field. This page is meant to guide you through the process & explore the different options.
🎈🎈 What are the Options?
You can choose between 2 pathways:
Propose or join an idea & find a way to realize the project within 4 weeks. It is important that the project has an appropriate scale for the group to realize. Some broad examples include:
Presenting your project/startup/idea to NEIII advisors/partners in an interactive way
Creating an impact investing guide for individuals in the New England area
Prototyping a new product idea or process that you will propose to your employer
A resource base that further explores a particular topic from the course
Starting to build a utopia around bioregional finance in your bioregion
Designing a game to inform others about the flaws of the economic system & how money functions in the world
..Any other idea you'd like to explore with your co-fellows
We leave this option very open for you to create and explore together, using the time to work on it with others in your group. Make sure to ask for feedback from the Fellowship cohort and others from our community.
Please put your idea on the dedicated space on miro & later sign up your group here so we can see who already has a group.
🗣️🗣️ Getting Some Help
Before you get into your Peer Project and decide what you want to really learn about you might want to consider whom you might want to meet to help you with your work. So while you read the next section think of organizations or leaders in the space you would research or want to learn about as it relates to that learning journey question you are exploring. We encourage you to share those connections & learnings with everyone in the form of Skill Sessions
In May, when we are back together, we’ll have some time when you can share about your project, your learnings, and the skill sessions you organized in April.
👨👨👦👦👨👨👧👧 What’s the process?
Starting in March, after 4 weeks of diving into the program, you will receive an invitation to start reflecting on a project you’d like to realize or a topic you would like to learn more about. We will gather those ideas & concrete proposals on a Miro board & observe if clusters emerge.
In a second step, we call forward concrete proposals & idea givers, meaning there should be a concrete frame of a project (which might still shift over time) or approach to the peer study group (eg. one of the proposed programs you will go through together). People can then sign up for the emerging options & form a group. Once all groups have taken shape, we will create a communication channel on our community WhatsApp for you. No worries, we will make sure that everyone finds a space :)
Once we're in April, you are invited to self-facilitate, find moments to meet, and decide how you would like to go about the process. Of course, we are available if you have any questions throughout the process. There's a Zoom room available for you to use for your meetings.
How to use the zoom space & open breakouts
Use this zoom link for any call you want to organize
To get into the room, use that link, or you might need to put in the pass code 1111
To be able to open the breakouts, one of you will first have to claim host privileges. Use the host code 135246 in the participant tab after clicking 'claim host' on the bottom. This will let you open up the Breakout Rooms. Be sure to set the breakout rooms to allow participants to choose rooms.
You will be invited to share your results and/or learnings in a practice space early May. The format of the presentation is very flexible & should not take longer than 5 min.
We expect a total time budget of 8-10 h per person for the month of April.
📹 Peer Project Recordings & Resources - INCOMING
Starting the Process
Some groups we organized around to gauge interest of the groups. The ideas and suggestions you came up with informed the groups we created. If you would like to explore any of these topics further let us know and we can facilitate you meeting other Fellows also engaged by this topic.
We've tried ot organize the propsed topics in some categoies to help us. Do check out the proposals and add your name if interested or wanting to join in. https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVLeqSa9o=/
Some ideas we've tried to summarize and would love more on them:
AI & Technology
Angel Investing
Case Studies
Indigenous Economics
Incentives
Policy
Public Private Partnerships
Social Issues
🎇🎉 What are the past learnings?
We're happy to share the learnings, outcomes & resources from the different groups from last cohort with you! This can give you an idea of what is possible, but doesn't have to limit your creativity.
📽 Here's a recording of our presentation from cohort 2/24.
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