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.
Why a community of practice? Most practitioners in this field work alone, or close to it. Over the years you build up a great deal of hard-won knowledge about handling difficult situations, managing a business, and and holding your ground when it is the whole field, not your own work, that is being questioned. There are few places to share it or to hear how someone else approaches the same things.
A community of practice is built for this. It brings people together across organisations and across distance, and it values the kind of knowledge that comes from experience and rarely makes it into a textbook.
Our part is to look after the practical side. We provide the platform and the structure, and we help turn what practitioners share into resources the whole field can use. It is free to join.
COMING SOON
Domain: a shared area of interest
What brings us together is a way of seeing health: as something that belongs to a whole person, not a single diagnosis. We are curious how people recover, what keeps them well, and what gets in the way. Many of the people we see are living with long term, chronic conditions, and many have tried other paths before coming to us.
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
Running a complementary healthcare practice raises questions and challenges every day, some clinical and some about the business itself. This community of practice is a place to bring them.
Every member is a working practitioner. Members bring real questions and challenges from their own practice, talk them through together, and learn from how others have handled similar situations.
Over time, we aim to build a shared record of how experienced practitioners actually reason, and of the standards worth holding to. It will be built by members, from their own practice.
Be there for the first one
Leave your details and we will send you a link to the next online Community of Practice gathering.
hello@thematayaproject.com
