I take ownership of my areas of responsibility. I am willing to give an accurate recollection of my actions at any time. I strive to know the impact of my actions and take all of my impact into account.
The apprentice stage is the first stage of learning a craft. Learners admitted to a chapter begin their journey as an apprentice. Apprentices are paid an optional minimal stipend and their primary responsibility is to advance the learning of everyone in their cohort, including themselves.
I am present and honest in my interactions with people.
I feel like I am an integral part of the organization/team/pair. I have a place here.
Chapters are the centers of learning within Learners Guild. They are communities of practice designed for intensive, deliberate learning and growth.
A cohort is a set of learners with a shared start date and chapter. Cohorts are named after their start month: e.g. November Cohort, September Cohort. Cohorts go through orientation, and some foundational workshops together.
I engage/participate for the betterment of the team over personal gain.
I am deliberately and consistently improving my craft and my skills. I aspire to live in my Zone of Proximal Development. I take on Relevant Stretchy Goals.
I am honest, even when it’s risky. I take actions that frighten me when I believe in the value of the outcome. I choose truth over comfort. I am willing to risk the status quo in order to make it better. I am willing to risk our relationship, in order to deepen it.
Learners are involved with one or more crafts. These are the industries and skills which learners practice and work in. Web development is an example of a craft, as is graphic design, forestry, and photovoltaic technology.
We invite and share critique of reason, performance, and output.
We frequently and honestly reflect impactful consequences of actions back to the agent behind the action.
I carefully and thoughtfully choose how I spend my time.
I know that I am worthy of respect, and that I belong.
We value the uniqueness of the individual in the organization/team. I bring my unique set of experiences to the organization/team/pair.
I take on our shared purpose as my own. I resist blame and apathy.
The Guild Core is the central organizational body of Learners Guild. The Core is responsible for all business and operational functions not explicitly under the domain of the chapters. The core is not explicitly geography-specific.
Guild members are grouped into houses. A house spans members from multiple cohorts. The purpose of a house is to create a small community of practice that meets regularly in Player Support Meetings to intentionally support each other and deliberately co-create a thriving learning culture.
We treat ourselves and others with dignity, respect and an open heart. We assume good intentions and give others the benefit of doubt. I consider how my behavior impacts others and make efforts for that impact to be positive.
A member of Learners Guild who is learning and practicing a craft. Learners include Apprentices and Practitioners.
I am a crucial part in something that has a significant impact.
We welcome, encourage, and celebrate inquiry. We respecting the authority of the inquired to retain privacy if desired.
Partner is the term we use for people who work in the Guild Core. A partner is an employee of the Learners Guild who has an open ended, fixed employment.
I recognize that learning necessitates discomfort, and I sustain my practices through both times of strain as well as times of flow.
We make time for unstructured activity for the sake of pure recreation rather than a specific purpose.
Practitioners are learners who are being paid to practice their craft. Their primary responsibilities are to their projects and to their own continued development and refinement of their craft.
I am here now: Undistracted, attuned, and aware.
I allow myself to be seen and known. I lower my filters and expose a more true me.
I minimize the gap between my word and behavior.
Stakeholders include all partners and learners in addition to affinity organizations, investors, board, customers, and anyone else interacting with—or impacted by—Learners Guild.
We don’t hide helpful information from each other unless it will cause harm. We expose our failures risking safety for truth.
We believe in neuroplasticity and evaluate each other and ourselves based on our actions, not on our qualities or identities.
I am committed to our shared purpose, and determined to achieve it.
I have an understood place in the concert of our company.
I embrace everything: the full catastrophe. I engage authentically, with courage and compassion.
We make what is implicit explicit, and we record it.
I am honest and morally upright. I minimize the gap between my internal world and external behavior. I harmonize different parts of myself: heart, mind & body. I consistently prove myself worthy of others’ trust.
We have crisp definitions of where something ends and something else begins.
I deliberately allow myself to be impacted by others. We are committed to putting down our defenses/reactions/shame and to being touched/moved.
I am present to the goodness in people and generously deliver feedback on my observations.
I respect people’s confidentiality and their unwillingness to share certain things.
We are present with what we experience and all the good that it brings to us.
We actively seek new ideas, activities, and adventures.
We are interested in things that lie beyond our own knowledge and experience.
I feel as if my entire Maslow's hierarchy of needs is being filled regularly.
We regularly imagine what is possible beyond what already exists in our everyday experience.
I contribute something that reflects me personally.
I lower my filters and expose a more true me.
I contribute something that reflects me personally.
I feel able to take fully independent control over my domain.
I have reasonable control over what it happening to me at all times. I have a large degree of influence on my own destiny.
I am growing in capability as I collaborate.
Support to help resolve a problem or difficulty, or take advantage of an opportunity.
I search for experience differential to provide feedback. I allow myself to receive feedback from others. I freely provide feedback to others to support their learning.
Information, tools and supplies that support my learning.
I feel like I am an integral part of the organization/team/pair. I reach out to others to promote our shared identity/purpose.
I understand the purpose and mission of the organization/team.
I am in touch with our shared humanity.
We are committed to supporting the mission of the organization/team/pair.