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Esti Moskovitz-Kalman


I'm an educator and an organizational consultant specializing in the content area of Jewish collective identity. I work in the Jewish Agency- as the educational director of the content and training unit serving Jewish leaders around the world. I am a resident and a social activist in Beit Shemesh. I love to cycle and ride horses.

Reflections: Even though I've read Etienn's writings in the last few years, and thought I understood much of the basics of COP, and have even participated in a few COPs (primarily not very successful ones), it is not until these last two days that I think the penny dropped...I'm farther along in the process of willing to recognize the equal importance of the knowledge that can be learned from a social network then from an external source of knowledge. I guess the understandings that many times external bodies of knowledge (articles, research) about our fields are just systemic expressions of the same knowledge that can be found in the network of professionals around us, if we just listen hard enough. That is a new "take" of thinking about authoritative new knowledge…. I also really appreciated learning about //social artists//; it's a term I'd love to explore more- it rings true. I can relate to it and to its importance. I like the terminology that you've brought such an as //social citizenship//, //social artists//, //landscapes//.... I think that while these terms are each from a different world (various worlds of metaphors) they each bring a lot of richness and depth to the conversation. The question I am still trying to figure out, is the idea of quality control as a leader of a COP. I'm sure that like many of my colleagues, we appreciates high quality, social networks have always challenged that idea. The preferred nature of the horizontal mode of the COP - challenges the idea that the higher professional quality one brings the more we want to ensure it has more space to be present. As I'm writing these lines... I'm reminding my self of a COP that I'm now a part of communitywhere I don't lead the community and yet I have the role of the "quality controller" - the one with the most experience and authority in a specific area. Perhaps I can learn from this and in general add another "leadership" social role (in addition to the 6 roles you've shared with us) and give it to someone who is perceived by the group to be worthy of that role.... I need to think about it… I look forward to seeing the full fleshed index of the methodologies that appeared in the slide with the palette on your blog soon, Thank-you for coming and sharing your time, energy and wisdom! Have a safe return home.