Associate Name: Nicole Vosper
Main Advisor and OP Reviewer: Jennifer Dauksha-English Morgan

Output Packet #:  	5	Year:  Capstone 
Date Submitted: August 20th, 2018
Date Reviewed: September 11th, 2018
Mark: A
Grade: 74 (self) 82 (pro)
Time Spent on Review: 3.75 hrs

Dear Nicole,

I'm so glad to see you at the end of this long journey. Thanks for your patience this last month. I had an unexpected life change and had to quickly move back out to my farm, which meant days of cleaning, dong manual repairs, packing, moving, and dealing with no internet (it’ll be installed next week finally).

Despite my lack of responsiveness this past while, know that I’ve been aware of this accountability and have been appreciating this relationship immensely. We’ve been in this mentor relationship and functioning as colleagues for more years now than I can recall. It’s been a real inspiration to serve as a support person for you and the powerful work that you do in the world dear friend.  Associates like you make my dedication of time and energy worthwhile.

I’m continually amazed by the quality of your engagement, even despite your personal health and relationship set backs. You’re contributions to planetary change and leveling up the field are remarkable.

Thank you for your continual integrity and perseverance to serve as a planetary change agent and co-evolutionary of applied action.

My review is broken into these sections:
1. Evaluation Form 
2. Comments Per Section

Required next step: 
None

Recommended next step:
Celebrate

Cheers,
Jennifer

OP REVIEW-------------------------

1. EVALUATION FORM-------------------- 

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2. COMMENTS PER SECTION---------------

Commentary
- Gorgeous picture. It captures so much about you and your work. The connection and reverence for nature. The diversity and abidance (bountifulness). Your exploration with the edge of society and people care. Your role as a badass leader. Awesome. 
- Appreciating the title of your pathway - Applied Agroecology. I very much approve this as your pathway focus.
- Note to reader very clear. Perhaps a bit wordy (example - overuse of the word please). Do you want people to read left column to right column? Maybe make ‘For Reviewers’ bolded.
- How are you tracking the completion of these goals?
- OP specification - it says in first bullet point that this is OP 4. Change to OP 5.
- Love the Empty Cages logo!!
- Define agroecological as a term.
- Awesome that you have a website - so excited to check it out further.
- Good that you included an overview of purpose of a learning review and contents of the OP - would of liked a sentence of personal meaning. As is, it feels very clinical/ analytical. What I mean is, I’d like to see a sentence or two about what this means to your life as a hinge point of learning or a rite of passage.
- I see you added your MSc Degree Proposal, which I previously read and approved.
- On OP design - all this seems relevant and applicable to your life circumstances. Basically, you are creating an OP design process as an intervention into a life situation labeled as overwhelming. Though you didn’t articulate a complex design or experiment with new methodologies or principles, you responded to an emergent personal situation by designing your own process. Because you’ve shown a career of using design from the BSc through to your Capstone MSc, I am very satisfied with your skill as a designer, regardless of how deep you explore design in this particular OP.
- Thank you for your vulnerability in sharing such a personal life update. It des feel harrowing. I am amazed that you were able to complete all your Gaia U accountabilities. I feel even more appreciative that you were able to stay in communication with me over the year. Sending you love. Hoping that these shadows and death become the soil for new life.
- You’re pathway tracking has always been phenomenal - I often send other Associates to review your pathway metrics and integrative system for tracking. Amazing.
- On OP reflection, I’m glad that I was able to be supportive in helping you overcome blocks.
- On integration of feedback, I’d love to hear more of a cumulative reflection on how feedback has been integrated into your pathway.
- Journals - some of them are empty but regardless - you sufficiently provide evidence of your entries. Beautiful poem about ‘the father’.

Overview
- Wonderful definition of Political Agroecology. I’m curious from what worldview sector does Molina’s work come from and how it influenced your own thinking?  I guess I mean, from what operating system is Molina from or traversing, and is this the same as or different than yours? Example - modern versus post modern thinking? Pluralism versus relativism? Though I appreciate your explanation, I feel that this section is missing the scope of relevance - explain why this is so significant. I think you’re making an assumption that the reader already understands that there’s an ecological crises and political agroecokogy is a cure. Interesting that Mannual says the mission is to produce knowledge. I like that. I see life recently as nuggets of wisdom, pathways to that wisdom, portals to access the pathways, and keys to open the portals. Each time any of us traverses this territory, the entirety of our human consciousness inevitably levels up and has access.
- I appreciate that you explain your use of the KOLB model and it’s inclusion in the Gaia U pedagogy of learning. I think a tiny bit more explanation on the use of the model would be helpful, and a few more examples of its use, such as further descriptions of active experimentation. Here to would be an intreating place to have a cumulative reflection on your skill building in each area.
- Excellent overview of each OP (I think though this section needs a micro introduction) with description and key outcomes. Would be amazing to see this topics in some form of graphical image. Surely the experience portion of the project was gained/explored well beyond the timeline of active documentation.
- Thank you for providing before/actual timelines.
- You provide MTMP overview and mention other OPs, how about copy and paste or provide a link?
- Great summary of interventions and transitions, and participation. 
- Loved your MoY. Truly I can say I’ve loved all your Gaia Radio calls!

Project Outcomes
- Because I’ve commented so much on your projects in previous OPs, I’m going to simply say here that, you are amazing. Each of these projects alone shows your level of strategic engagement. You choose work that is so relevant to creating significant world change. Together your portfolio is nothing less than stunning. Your level of engagement is exceptional. Your ability to do, think, reflect, prototype, document, and teach/share/ disseminate is phenomenally holistic. 

Professional Development
- Grateful to see some tracking of your original learning intentions and commentary on progress.
- A book! Somehow I missed that this was one of your intentions. Do you still intend to give this some momentum in the near future?
- Perhaps this section on goals could benefit from a conclusion that summarizes your pattern observations of achievements and those areas needing to be renegotiated or transitioned off the list.
- Yes I agree you’ve accumulated massive skill Nicole!
- All of these areas you have listed have received conservable attention from you. I’d certainly recommend you for advising others in each of these areas. I wonder if you could put a timeline or hours achieved in each area. Some I think we could say you’ve earned mastery level! Some say 10,000 hours is mastery of a skill. Oh I see that you track your time in field, knowledge, skills, dissemination efforts (basic impact) - wohooo!
- Nice work explaining your evolution in design with the four levels of competency/consciousness. I completely agree with your observations on your development, and that this is a common pattern for all designers.
- Be cautious about using so much jargon without providing definitions or spelling out acronyms. You spew out several design models with little to no explanation.  Thank you for providing concrete examples of how you used design. 
- Lovely strategic impact assessment - nice use of zone model. This section really shows the holistic nature of your work.
- Your CV is stunning. Wow!

Personal Development
- Awe! I love the little meme about love notes:)
- Oh wow - I love how you broke out your personal and professional goals from the LIPD. Really appreciating how personal you get inside the commentary here. Thank you for addressing your workaholism. Do you think this stems from 1. personality disposition, 2. social conditioning/family upbringing, 3. dire sense of urgency of the state of the world AKA worldview/belief/perception, or 4. all of the above?
- Value the pattern level assessment.
- I’d still love to dive deeper with you around the experience both you and I had around burn out - I think together we could create a powerful tool kit for prevention (for ourselves or to share with others).
- Beautiful focus on self care!  love that you turned so much of this inner quest into inspiring nuggets of blog posts. So super badass. This is inspiring me to write more.

Conclusions and Next Steps
- Yay to using LIPD approach to do some future casting. I think it’s reasonable to create a grand list of goals and use that to gain momentum/motivate action on a more seasonal level. It’s helpful to be able to make goals without feeling overwhelmed by them. It’s also helpful to choose small achievable next steps that can be celebrated.  like how you turned your goals into SMART statements. The objectives are more manageable and measurable.
- Love the Apothecary idea!
- The Tattooed Herbalist - you’re so amazing! Love it!
- Awesome dissemination strategy. Totally appreciate how this was an ongoing part of your pathway. You have exceeded the requirements for dissemination and impact on the field.
- I would love to hear a conclusive statement on how Gaia U has shaped/supported you on the conclusion page.
- The final paragraph is very anchoring though very paraphrased. How about adding an inclusive appreciation or gratitude to raise the energy up?

Cumulative Resource Review
- Exceptional! Well exceeds requirements.
- One of your strengths is assessing the field! And adding to the field - so powerful!
- Such a resource for others - thanks!

Supporting Evidence 1 and 2
- Your portfolio of support is massive. Well done at documenting all the details of your pathway Nicole. I am amazed by all that you achieved.