Community of practice · 2024
The Reflective Collective
A faculty community of practice grounded in Appreciative Inquiry — slower, warmer, and more sustained than a typical workshop series.
The Reflective Collective is a faculty community of practice built on one simple premise: the teachers who grow most over time are the ones who keep asking themselves better questions.
The design move
Most faculty development is transactional — a workshop, a handout, a quick fix. The Reflective Collective deliberately runs at a different tempo. Members commit to a semester-long arc built around Appreciative Inquiry cycles: discovery, dream, design, destiny. Meetings are structured but unhurried; the facilitator’s job is to protect the quiet, not fill it.
Format
- Small cohorts (8–12 faculty) drawn across disciplines
- Bi-weekly 90-minute sessions
- Each session anchored by a member’s real teaching puzzle
- Structured reflection protocols — no generic “what worked, what didn’t”
What I’m learning
Slower programs produce different artifacts. Members leave with questions, not tips — and report changes in how they plan courses months later.