COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
A community of practice is a group of people who do the same kind of work and meet regularly to get better at it. The learning comes from the members, not from a syllabus. What gets discussed is whatever the work is actually throwing up. Three things define one.
The Mataya Project wants to facilitate one for complementary healthcare practitioners.
The reason is straightforward. Most practitioners in this field work alone, or close to it. What they know about handling a difficult case has been learned over years and stays where it was learned, which is in their own heads. There is no structure that carries it anywhere else. Communities of practice are built for exactly this, because they are not limited by organisational or geographic boundaries and they deal in the kind of knowledge that is held rather than written down.
Our role is to provide the platform and the structure, and to turn what practitioners know into resources the whole field can use. There is no charge to be part of it.
COMING SOON
Domain: a shared area of interest
Health, understood as something belonging to a whole person rather than to a diagnosis. Members share an interest in how people recover, what sustains them, and what gets in the way. Most of the people they see live with long-term conditions, and most have already been somewhere else first.
Community: members interact and learn together
Practitioners in this field mostly work alone. This is a group of people who take the work seriously and want contact with others who do, across disciplines and across the country. Members learn from each other by bringing their own work into the room, not by being taught what to learn.
Practice: members are practitioners who develop a shared repertoire of resources
Everyone here practises. Over time the group builds something the field has never had: a shared record of how experienced practitioners actually reason. Cases, judgements, and the standards worth holding to, documented rather than left in individual heads. The repertoire is built by members, from their own practice.
Be there for the first one
Leave your details and you will hear from us when the first session is set.
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