"A Journey To Community"

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The Promising Practices Fair

To allow everyone to satisfy their curiosity about what Promising Practices were brought into the room, we engaged in a Promising Practices Fair. The Fair was organized in two iterations, each one allowing for half the practices to be previewed. In the first iteration, “Stalls” were created, with a Promising Practice featured and the stall hosted by two or three people who knew the practice. The rest of the group roamed the Fair, and learned about the promise of the practice. The second iteration was conducted the same way, with the remainder of the practices featured.

A Learning Principle: The more defined our story is, the less likely we are to discover something new, surprising or contradictory. As a process, the Promising Practices Fair allowed people to satisfy their curiosity about what was going on, and pushed the holders of a practice to express the essence of it.

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