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Making Sense of AI

Hosted By: Emily Campbell & Andrea Ong

From using AI to designing for it, this group will discuss the realities of AI and ways sensemakers can grow alongside AI tech advancements.

Making Sense of Bureacracy

Hosted By: Marina Nitze

Impossible to cut red tape got you down? Whether personal bureacracy or professional, this group discusses strategies for getting along while living through peak capitalism.

Consultants Support

Hosted By: Mari-Megan Moore & Sarah A Rice

If you are a sensemaker who is working on your own as a consultant or soloprenuer -- this is a group of people doing the same. This group will tackle the balancing act it takes to stay independent.

Making Sense of Content + Design

Hosted By: Rebecca Hathaway & Stephanie Lottridge

When we make anything, we need to think about content and design. They are in tandem forever and ever. This group loves to get into the complexities involved at the intersection of Content and Design.

Making Sense of Ethics

Hosted By: Natasha Godwin & Lindsey Slutz

If you aren't talking about the ethical implications of your sensemaking work already, we can fix that. This group want to get into the hard stuff and ask the unanswerable questions without fear of the unknown. We also want to make it so less sensemaking is used for evil.

Making Sense of Facilitation

Hosted By: Emily Jo Eagle

What does it mean to facilitate well? This group wants to explore facilitation from a variety of viewpoints and contexts.

Sensemaking in Government

Hosted By: Kulbir Bachher & Beth Martin

If you have worked in government than you know how contextually different it can be from the private sector. This group gives space and voice to those doing sensemaking work within federal and local govenrnments all over the world.

Making Sense of Language

Hosted By: Clair Rock

Words matter. And when it comes to getting your point across or making sense with or for other people -- inclusive language practice is a must acquire skill. This group focuses on skillsharing while also creating a safe space for questions that can be hard to put into words.

Introverts Who Make Sense

Hosted By: Alexandria Scobee

This group tackles the hardest part of being an introvert -- living and working in an extrovert-centric world. It might seem counter intuitive to create a group introverts, but if you are introverted you probably already know how powerful camraderie can be.

Knowledge Management & Governance Support

Hosted By: Dina Bennett & Jane Leuchter

Being the one in charge of all the documentation or proposals for change is no fun, and some of the most lonely work a sensemaker can do. When (not if) you find yourself working on a particularly gnarly knowledge management problem, these are folks who are doing the same.

Making Sense of Leadership

Hosted By: Bethany Boyd & Adam Beasley

Leadership is a skill best learned over our lifetime, and through our peers. This group focuses on stories and skill sharing amongst those leading in and outside management.

Managers Who Make Sense

Hosted By: Shelby Bower & Emily Lowry

When you manage people, you need a network of other managers to hold you up through the hard stuff. This group aims to skillshare monthly but also to hold space for management woes, of which there are many.

Mindfulness & Modeling

Hosted By: Joe Elmendorf & Suzan Quick

There seem to be parallels between a practice of mindfulness and a practice of modeling. The importance of mind and body, working together. Not focusing on output/outcomes, but on showing up well.
The need to have patterns that help us remember what is important. This discussion seeks to explore these parallels and more as we seek to improve our modeling and mindfulness practices, and become more whole, integrated people in all that we do.

Making Sense of Neurodiversity & Neuroinclusion

Hosted By: Zalihata Ahamada & Alexis Logsdon

This group provides a safe place for neurodiverse folks to talk about being neurodiverse and how that looks in their work and lives. We welcome people of all neurotypes to join to build or improve your own neuroinclusion toolkit.

Questions That Make Sense

Hosted By: Amanda Gelb & Sarah Fierman

Asking questions is a huge part of sensemaking. But how good are our questions? How effective are they are soliciting the results we are after? This group intends to discuss the delicate art of questioning.

Making Sense of Relationship Building & Networking

Hosted By: Sahar Naderi And Alfi Oloo

Do you wonder what it takes to make friends, influence people and do the dreaded but oh-so-needed "networking" part of your work? This group has your back, and space for you to grow into your relationship management and networking skills.

Making Sense of Research

Hosted By: Amy Silvers & Kyle Soucy

Doing your first research assignment and need a sounding board on your methods? Or are you a veteran researcher looking to trade notes on the latest and greatest methods out there? This group hopes to be a mix of both, and a ripe cross learning environment for researchers of all levels of experience and method.

Seekers Who Make Sense

Hosted By: Jasmine Ibrahim & Samantha Kane

If you are a person with deep questions about the universe and the great unknowns, and are seeking community -- look no further. We want to talk about the deepest parts of what it means to be human and make sense of this messy life.

Teachers Who Make Sense

Hosted By: Chris Collette

Things can get complex while teaching moving target subjects like content strategy, interaction design, user experience, and information architecture. This group seeks to share space and best practices for managing a modern classroom, while imparting on today's students the timeless arts of sensemaking

Teams of One Support

Hosted By: Alison Gretz & Michelle Keller

Being the only one with your job title is a particular challenge many sensemakers find themselves in. If you are looking for a group to discuss the challenges of being a team of one, welcome.

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