Who's Us?

Bunchberry & Fern = Learning and Development in organisations.



Our guiding principle is:
Classroom training is fine. But only if you have exhausted all the other options.

Bunchberries are the planet's fastest plant.
Ferns are among the planet's oldest. And toughest.

Both plants are rhizomatous.

Rhizomes are rootstalks that grow horizontally underground. In the 1970's, some philosophers described traditional learning as arborescent (like a tree). They also said:

Knowledge should be negotiated and learning is social - a personal knowledge creation process with mutable goals and constantly negotiated premises.

The above is from Wikipedia. To be honest, they had us at rootstalk.

Learning like a rhizome means:

Project Learning
Or having a go and then working out what went wrong, what went right and what to do next. We steal bits from things like Agile, Appreciative Enquiry and formal Project Management.

Knowledge Management
Open Space Technology, Knowledge/World Cafes, Appreciative Enquiry, shiny technology

Sensemaking, Storytelling, Peer Coaching and 'Tools'
Working in teams to come to a shared understanding of ideas and experiences. Learning how to learn - making things explicit and accessible.

Classroom training
We're not fanatics. Sometimes it's just easier to get a trainer in to facilitate or go through things - hopefully, a good one who uses games and engaging activities. We also do things like Training the Trainer and help organisations to set up their own internal training programmes.

We don't do eLearning. It's not that we don't like it. We work with people who do it. It's just not what we do. We do do Learning Design.

Random fact: We'll pick a fight with anyone who ever says, "Let's not reinvent the wheel."

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