Peer Assist
Citation
Alex Steffen:
"For the really difficult questions, conversation with respected peers is the only path to learning. Peer assist groups are one way of structuring those conversations for real results.
We need more tools like this, because as we move more rapidly towards a bright green future, we are going to find ourselves more and more in terra incognita, doing things and creating things and combining things that have never before been done, created or combined. In order to do this well, we have to help each other by sharing what we've learned." (http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007769.html)
Example
Dorine Rüter:
"Over the last years, many people in Dutch organizations have been participating in peer assist groups to support their own professional development. Using peer assist as a learning tool (e.g. during workshops) has become more and more common, e.g. during meetings of the KM4DEV community. Talking to some people during the recent KM4DEV 2007 meeting in Zeist however, I discovered that peer assist groups as used in The Netherlands – here called ‘intervisie’ – are not (well) known." (http://www.ruter.nl/blog/?p=65)