Feedback Output Packet
Associate: Jacki Saorsail
Main Advisor:  Ariane Burgess
Date: 14 July 2013

I am mindful that you completed this OP sometime ago and that you are currently in a life changing program ELL - it may be that my feedback is old news if ELL is as intense and calling forth as it is intended to be. 

Is the OP complete?

1.	OP Specification
2.	Project Specification/s
3.	Main Body
4.	Learning Journal Extracts
5.	Digiphon (not required)
6.	Resource review
7.	Supporting appendixes where needed
8.	Self Review
9.	Peer Review (both ways) - Peer Review is pending Monique Miller's 
10.	Guild/Peer contact evidence 

Highlight
Your clear articulation of what you intend to do and by when. 
Superb diagrams and charts - demonstrating your creative and thoughtful thinking. 
Good acknowledgment of support systems and sources of knowledge and information. 

General
Clearly laid out and organized.  A quick click through the tabs to glance at the content - I became enthusiastic to engage with your material - I had a sense of a sharp clarity from the way it was laid out.  The subtitle at the beginning of each tab -  for example  - Specifications and Reflections for Learning Intentions and Pathway Design. This gives me an orientation point. 

Potential for change
I'd like to see one or two photos - of you - I know the LIPD is focused on planning, goals etc - however it would be great to connect your thinking some recent pictures of you - perhaps one from your Emerging Leaders Lab. 

Questions that came up for me
This is a big vision. I wonder if you are putting too much into your first year? Do you have a sense of what you might be doing in the capstone year?
I know much will change as you go through your LIPD over the next months - however I'm curious to know what inkling you have about your action learning beyond what you've articulated here. 

Are you trying to realize your Regenerative Management enterprise within your GU degree?

My other questions are woven through the detailed comments. 

Output element > in detail comments

Specification

The specifications are a succinct and to the point outline of what you are doing and where you are going on your LIPD  - and over the next year +. 
I’d like a bit more transparency on Permaculture  - why this? What’s so special about Permaculture?

I like your plan to leave a trace of your conceiving and thinking through writing papers – it shows consideration for associates and other change agents who’d like to learn from your process – how you went from the idea to realization. I have a sense the writing these papers along with your process reflection journal will give you strong foundations for each step you take. 

I enjoyed the clarity of your Masters Degree Pathway Overview – and simple way of mapping it after your intended PP with just a month number. 

Process Reflections

You are really in the action learning. 
Good catch on doing more upfront research to see if others are already doing what you are doing. 

I like your decision to design your pathway based on project focus – that for a given period of time you will focus your learning and attention on Communication, Organization and Design.
Perhaps give some consideration to how you will design this  - you are possibly going to have some loose threads from Communication – on-going learning even when you start the period of time when you starting your focus on Organizations. 

I would have like a bit more on this – 
I was a little confused on what to write about the output packets
You don’t say what your confusion is – what’s the source? 

You could link your ELL journal entries here too. 

Digiphon

Superb Digiphon – very helpful for fellow associates and other change agents. 
Can you add in your Hardware and your system for backing up your data?
Outline of Project Goals
Project 1 - Communication
         
I am with you on the issue of introducing necessary structures so we can all move together towards creating life-sustaining/regenerating societies. Yes organizations are the edge to work. 

On the communication part – perhaps there’s a piece here about listening/giving the person you are in communication with good attention/deep listening as well as expressing your opinions. Also I wonder if there’s a bit here of – if the folks aren’t with you then perhaps they are not your early adopters who say yes – pick up the idea and run with it. 

I notice you have a strong need for learning NVC – it’s in several areas on your SkillFlex map. 
I wonder if you are carrying distress around communication from the past? Perhaps finding a way to work with this could soften the tension if there is any. 

I agree with your comment in the Forum around Re-Evaluation Counseling – it’s not the only tool – however it is accessible (free once you learn the skill and find a co-counselor). In my opinion I think Gaia U has adopted this one because it’s open source – like the software they use and their suggestion of using Open Office etc. 

Project 2 - Organization
I would like to teach these structures in Regenerative Management, though I see no need to try to mandate them in organizations – I like your awareness here – to offer structures as an option – not an enforcement.  

Regenerative Management Diagram 
Well designed – clearly articulating connections between the elements in the system -  the Social – Economic – Environmental – relationships > Personal Interpersonal Organizational Natural. 

Can you articulate your thinking here – how did you get to this – is this your original conception or drawn from others – or a synthesis?

Dynamic Governance – another name for the Sociocracy governance method – which is the form that Holacracy evolved out of. When you write Dynamic Governance under Social > Education and Structure – do you mean Sociocracy – or a governance that is dynamic?

Project 3 - Design
I like that you are going into this with the awareness of the need for two collaborators. 

Good thinking on the use of online social networking. 

I would like to provide an organization in which consultants can work together to bring in customers and collaborate to meet the needs of each organization.
This isn’t clear to me – is it that the consultants are coming in as the lead person from their organization – and your organization is a meta- organization?

Regenerative Enterprise Design Canvas
Enterprise in the title needs an e.
You have a natural skill for working with Mind Maps and other design tools. I have a sense that you will create tools that others will gladly adopt. 

Have you read Regenerative Enterprise yet – if not please do – Ethan & Gregory have done some superb foundational thinking and action learning here around the concept that there are 8 forms of capital.

OP1A - Life and Career Review
I like that you included this recent past which is a snap shot on the deep past and that you intend to use it as a reference point. 

OP1B - Learning Intentions and Pathway Design
See feedback in this document. 

OP2 - Communication
Good articulation of what your project is and your intended skillflex development. 
On personal growth – how will you know by the end of this period/ELL that you have grown personally? That your communications skills have improved? That you have created human connections? It may be over thinking it in a way however it might also be helpful for you to state where you are at with your personal growth – the parts you are aware you want to un/learn – that way you can track your development. 

You may also consider - 
Personal skillflex development and Professional skillflex development – just for the sake of sharing transparently your thinking of where your different skillflexes assemble themselves in the system that is Jacki - however you may not see a separation there. 

OP3 - Organization     
What could you do that generates income where you are actually getting experience on the job? What could you create that generates income drawing together what you already know – even before you have had all this training?

Can you articulate the difference between Holacracy and Sociocracy? I ask because apparently Sociocracy is less costly to learn and then you could adapt what you learn in Sociocracy to work with your Regenerative Management. 

If you can’t articulate the difference perhaps talk to a couple of people who are familiar with both methods – I think there are only a handful in the world. I may be able to put you in touch with one or two of them. Ask me if you want this – it could be something you use your GU budgets for. 

OP4 - Design
As you said – this is a big OP – perhaps there’s even more than one OP in this – material for your Capstone Year?

OP5 - Learning Review
I don't know how easy it will be to find people to commit to being on a team 
– how can you make space in your dream vision for the dream vision of others?
Supporting Evidence

Managing and tracking my progress
In each output packet I will revisit the original plan and provide a new plan for subsequent months and output packets. 
I like this as a design consideration for your subsequent OP. Perhaps a skillflex un/learning to observe is how much mapping and planning you do – and getting the balance so the planning actually gets you to action rather than more planning. 

Perhaps do a time map/inventory – time you have for your daughter, time for personal needs, time for generating income and time for GU studies. 

Consider concretely how many hours a week in the best scenario you would like to commit to actually walking along your GU LIPD  - this map that you have so beautifully and articulately created. 

I hope that I can find a job in the training and consultation field 
See where you could generate income using your clarity of thought and your already apparent written, mapping and organizational skills. Don’t undersell yourself. Explore marketing your skills online. If you don’t have time to do your own marketing how about posting on Hire My Mom or Odesk – not as a VA – more offering your specific skills – and do time bound projects? This way you can work from anywhere. 

The other map/inventory you may want to make – if you haven’t already is what income you really need to generate – each month – including the amount you need to save for all your trainings. This way it will be a friend rather than a looming concern. 

Skillflex Development
Compassionate communication is a great foundational piece for good Leadership and there’s more.
Interests      
I enjoyed this more personal snap shot.

Evaluation  - 
Yes good self evaluation. I notice you are giving yourself room to grow.

Resources & Links – 
It would be good if you made links to Holacracy, NVC etc. 
Thank you for your Mushroom report - that's the kind of document that will be very useful for fellow associates. Have you posted this a one of your skillflexes?