Our Current Pilot Support

 

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1. Pilot Pods as communities of practice
2. Global Pilot Calls for knowledge sharing
3. Supporting pilots with tools, resources, and technologies

1. Pilot Pods as Communities of Practice

A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who "share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly".^[1]

The purpose of pilot pods is for Ambassadors to be part of a community of practice around local adoption of Seeds and SEEDS. The pod serves as a sounding board for adoption strategies and for mutual help and support.

Pilot Pods consist of a (recommended) maximum of 3-4 Ambassadors working on Local Adoption Pilot Projects that are similar in characteristics, challenges and opportunities*.opportunities. Ambassadors can join existing pods or form new ones with the help of the Local Adoption Pilot Projects Database. The database lists existing Pilot Pods as well as Pilot Projects to help Ambassadors self-organize into Pilot Pods.

A suggested format is to meet weekly or biweekly using i.e. the format of a Case Clinic (Presencing Institute) or Mastermind Group Meeting. Each meeting, one Ambassador presents their case while the other pod members deeply listen and then collectively offer support / feedback / ideas to help this case. 

Pods will be encouraged to record their insights and define a lamp lighter to bring issues and learnings from the ground into the Global Pilot Sensing Calls.

*shared characteristics may be: demographics, culture, time zone, 'verticals' (i.e. regenerative tourism, food system, etc.) 

Status & Learnings

• there are currently some suggested pod assignments, however, only two of them have been activated
• positive feedback on format of Mastermind Group Meeting
• pod assignements are included in the Pilot Project Database

Questions to further explore:

• How do we make the self-organization into pods an easy and joyful experience?
• What are the most important characteristics of pilot projects to consider when organizing into pods?
• How do we support and facilitate regular pod meetings? i.e. by learning from the "Meet Seedizens" experience to prompt Ambassadors to schedule pod meetings
• How can be we collect and share learnings from the pods to make this an easy and rewarding experience for the involved Ambassadors?
• How do we synthesize and process insights from pods in a meaningful way?

2. Global Pilot Calls for Knowledge Sharing

Global Pilot Calls connect and share knowledge among Ambassadors active in Local Adoption Pilots. 

Global Pilot Calls are coordinated through a facilitated community thread on the SEEDS Discord server in the Local Adoption Pilots channel. They take place weekly or bi-weekly and rotate between a speaker series (designed to introduce a variety of tools, resources and concepts within the SEEDS ecosystem relevant for Local Adoption Pilots) and sensing calls (bringing Ambassadors active in Local Adoption Pilots together to share approaches, results, and lessons learned or raise concerns).

The Q&A sessions with speakers from the Global Pilot Calls are recorded and a protocol of the answered questions will be collected in a wiki and shared.

Status & Learnings

• **Our first Speaker Series Call was hosted on April 7, 20212021. with Steph from LocalScale (see below) and announced as an e-Townhall
• Q&A format with collecting questions through Slido was tested
• The schedule of future Global Pilot Calls and facilitation structure is still being coordinated
• Structure and means of collecting insights, feedback and requests from Pilot Calls need to be defined

coordinated**

April 2021

April 7, 6pm UTC: Q&A session with Steph from LocalScale
Description: Market platforms for regenerative products and services (both locally and globally) where Seeds are a (preferred) payment option play a key role in Seeds adoption. LocalScale is developing such a platform and virtual farmers market. Steph will present LocalScale, followed by a Q&A session. See alpha version of the virtual farmers market.  
Questions were collected in advance and during the call with Slido

 

Topics for upcoming sessions (currently being voted on on SEEDS Discord)on): 

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Samara develops, collects, and disseminates the tools, resources, and technology that are most useful to ambassadors facilitating local pilots. As explained in Our Relationship with Hypha Movement Building, Samara is not the only entity serving ambassadors in this way. See below for a brief list of current offerings throughout the SEEDS Discordecosystem, Server

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[1]  "Introduction to communities of practice - A brief overview of the concept and its uses". Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner. Retrieved 18 April 2021.