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Engaging Lived Experience as an Analytic Center

Knowledge work comes in many forms and is based in underlying notions of what it means to learn and change. Knowledge work inevitably connects to the lived experiences of individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. Analysis is where lived experience connects to knowledge intentions and decisions to form knowledge strategy that can effectively affect philanthropic mission.

Objectives

In this course participants will:

  • Consider lived experience in analysis.
  • Explore ways that lived experience can ground frameworks for inquiry.
  • Encounter grounded analysis.
  • Integrate shared inquiry and analysis.
  • Establish practices for legitimacy and trustworthiness.

Curriculum

Module One: Lived Experience and Analysis

  • Lesson 1: Opening possibilities for truth
  • Lesson 2: Surfacing knowledge values
  • Lesson 3: Committing to boundaries of inclusion
  • Lesson 4: Creating shared knowledge intentions

Module Two: Lived Experience Frameworks

  • Lesson 5: Focusing on roles
  • Lesson 6: Focusing on issues
  • Lesson 7: Focusing on systems
  • Lesson 8: Focusing on networks

Module Three: Grounded Analysis 

  • Lesson 9: Discerning established methods
  • Lesson 10: Incorporating interpretive analysis
  • Lesson 11: Appreciating daily curiosity
  • Lesson 12: Highlighting tensions as opportunity

Module Four: Shared Inquiry and Analysis

  • Lesson 13: Creating data through events, artifacts, and perspectives
  • Lesson 14: Dancing with dialectic motion
  • Lesson 15: Weaving methods through group process
  • Lesson 16: Crafting change constructs

Module Five: Trustworthiness

  • Lesson 17: Documenting process and purpose
  • Lesson 18: Ensuring method alignment
  • Lesson 19: Right-sizing technology and AI
  • Lesson 20: Nurturing multidimensionality in trust