Welcoming and Community Garden Conversations
Welcoming and Community Garden Conversations
Welcoming and induction in the CoLab community using different modes of engagement (eg one to one, on-boarding, events etc). Monthly onboarding calls, adhoc one to one calls, mid-yearly events to promote and highlight projects and initiatives in the colab and the wider network.
An invitation to come to the table, weaving projects and connections for resilience, collaboration, and scaffolding.
Please note that from 2024 the Welcome Gardening Project also encompasses the Skill Mapping and Community Platform Facilitation projects.
Team
Jyo Maan, Aimee Fenech, Daniel Atwell
Reporting Officer: Jyo Maan
Area
Circle incubation and nourishment, Diversity, participation and engagement, Network weaving, Next Steps project
objectives 2023
1. Co-design facilitated calls in line with the frequency outlined in the higher objectives:
– Monthly onboarding.
– Mid-yearly community weaving.
2. Offer adhoc one-to-one calls to members of the CoLab when needed e.g. if they express a wish to become active quickly in one or more circles or working groups.
3. Raw meeting recordings, chat history & any notes accessible through a shared drive for half yearly community contributors gatherings.
4. Digestible artifacts, eg. Pre-call welcoming email with the Communications Coordinator: who we are, what we are doing, what you can expect and what we expect of you and after an onboarding call: what now, who to talk to, where to go, skills mapping update request.
5. Closing triangles – matching people coming in with spaces and people in the ecosystem to help them orient themselves e.g. project / person looking for funding refer to Tanya in the funding circle, add person to the channel and show them how to find the funding opportunities database.
6. Brief follow up some months in, how are people doing, are they active, if no, why not, what additional support could be available?
7. Retrospective of on-boarding and engagement process to turn learnings into process improvements ongoing and annual.
OUTCOMEs 2023
1. Co-design facilitated calls in line with the frequency outlined in the higher objectives:
– Monthly onboarding.
– Mid-yearly community weaving.
2. Offer adhoc one-to-one calls to members of the CoLab when needed e.g. if they express a wish to become active quickly in one or more circles or working groups.
3. Raw meeting recordings, chat history & any notes accessible through a shared drive for half yearly community contributors gatherings.
4. Digestible artifacts, eg. Pre-call welcoming email with the Communications Coordinator: who we are, what we are doing, what you can expect and what we expect of you and after an onboarding call: what now, who to talk to, where to go, skills mapping update request.
5. Closing triangles – matching people coming in with spaces and people in the ecosystem to help them orient themselves e.g. project / person looking for funding refer to Tanya in the funding circle, add person to the channel and show them how to find the funding opportunities database.
6. PARTIALLY MET: Brief follow up some months in, how are people doing, are they active, if no, why not, what additional support could be available? – additional support aspects have not had the time to follow.
7. Retrospective of on-boarding and engagement process to turn learnings into process improvements ongoing and annual.
objectives 2024
2. Welcoming and induction in the community using different modes of engagements.
3. Maintenance of existing community database and making this accessible to the community.
4. Community platform facilitation.
september 2024 update
The welcome gardening team holds monthly onboading calls for new colab members and existing members who have been inactive for a while. We offer one to one calls for members who wish to discuss their engagement within the CoLab in more detail.
During this year we have been testing different engagement patterns to bridge the gap between entering a new space and becoming active and engaged in the CoLab activities. In the beginning of the year we organised camp fire meetings and we are now moving into other types of activities such as producing videos to highlight membership benefits and illustrate how the CoLab works.
Our work also includes taking care of the CoLab slack workspace and making the community skills database a useful and used resource in the CoLab ecosystem.
resources created
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