Happy New Year Agitare Community!
Happy New Year Agitare Community! 2023 is in motion!
This is the LinkedIn "article" version of our monthly newsletter update.
Following last month’s?ad-hoc update?(a great catchup to how 2022 went), we wanted to again share the happenings from around the community and highlight some members doing awesome stuff in the wild.
As always, we hope these occasional touchpoints inspire each member of the community to get more involved, create + explore + experiment, and build strong connections within.
With that, here are the highlights (not counting all the goodness within the?Agitare Slack):
Agitare Highlights
#topic-dei-b channel?launched in Slack!
Following the demand signal from the community, Agitare now has a new channel (#topic-dei-b) dedicated to topics surrounding?Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEI-B)!
Agitare is exploring with Project Mercury
Agitare member and USAFA Cadet - Kelsey Monaghan-Bergson was one of 50 selected to join Cohort 9 of?Project Mercury, “Integrated by Design.” Kicking off Jan 17-20 in DC. Congrats! Project Mercury is the Air University Innovation Education program formed in partnership with the University of Michigan.
Initiatives
The?Agitare Book Club
Agitare is trying out a book club again - Daniel Hulter is persistent! For January, we are discussing the book?Braiding Sweetgrass?by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It’s an amazing piece of work combining indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge, two lenses that may appear at first glance to contradict each other. Join us?on Zoom?Wednesday, Jan 18, 2023 at 3pm MST (5pm EST) to discuss the book and the parts that resonated most strongly with those of us who have read it. Find event details?on LinkedIn. You can find the group in the?#book-club?channel in Slack + ‘click’ on the button below to get involved!
Connect/Reflect:?The January Edition of our monthly connect/reflect series continues
On Jan 27, 2023 @ 5:00 PM EST. Come hang out with Agitare for an informal, loosely facilitated event that creates opportunity for members of the community to build relationship and reflect on whatever is on their mind. Find the?event on LinkedIn. Or drop directly into the?zoom call.
Agitare Members in the Wild
Facilitation Card Deck Reviews
If you haven’t seen?Rachel Davis’ Facilitation Card Deck Reviews, A.) What are you doing?! B.) Go?here?to check out the first review from Rachel in 2023!
Dr. Eagle on substack:
One of the esteemed members of Agitare,?Dr. Ethan Eagle, has started the year feeling inspired to write and create out loud! Take a moment and go check out?Ethan’s substack?for some great reflection and thoughts with iterating themes and experimenting, and so much more!
Austin Wiggins on New Years Resolutions:
Spend a bit of time reflecting with new eyes on the ritual reflections we often engage in as we transition to a new year. Austin puts a particular futures spin on the practice in their?LinkedIn article.
Daniel Exploring Complexity:
Catch up with Daniel’s latest exploration of Complexity and self-organization in?this LinkedIn Post, this?other LinkedIn post, and this article from last year:?Bureaucracy: Machines and Pilots
Community and Friends Recommendations
Think Wrong by?SolveNext
Agitare curates the (100% covered) military, veteran, & spouse scholarship for Think Wrong training. Reach out to?[email protected]?for details and to get on the list for an upcoming facilitators intensive.
Also, get the latest on the?Wrong Academy* as well - a new condensed version of the lessons covered in the infamous Think Wrong Facilitators Intensive at a fraction of the cost!
“We are here to provide updates about our team, Airmen across the force, and other efforts to best connect you to ideas.” - Tesseract
Come join a super-relaxed community of Innovators, both military and civilian, mixed in with some AllSpark Design Warfare disruption and pulse on USAF-Innovation as a whole! Or, just enjoy the memes…
Pragmatic Wardley Mapping by Ben Mosior ($150)*
Wardley Mapping is a powerful tool for . Sign up for the quick, asynchronous course?today!
Engagement Matters by Tricia Conyers ($300)*
Hands-on tips and strategies to unleash participation, engagement, and involvement in all your gatherings. Find it?here!
*denotes trainings with associated cost that community members have recommended
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This newsletter and contained resources were gathered and composed by:
Brian Westgate Daniel Hulter Rachel Davis Austin Wiggins W. Ethan Eagle???? Philip Barry Christopher Williams Kelsey Monaghan-Bergson Brandon Eastman Michael Harbin Lauren Rouse
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