CPsquare

The connection between the Foundations Workshop and CPsquare has always been close in the sense that people who’ve participated in the workshop seem to end up being major contributors to (and beneficiaries from) CPsquare and we’ve often sought to recruit guest speakers from the CPsquare membership, but the connection hasn’t always been obvious or direct. During the past year it’s seemed important to strengthen the connections in ways to support both spheres of activity.

Almost a year ago Joitske Hulsebosch, Ancella Livers, and Meena Surie Wilson did a project in the February 2005 workshop where, building upon a previous project, they querried workshop participants and CPsquare members for stories about cross-cultural issues in communities of practice. The result was a fascinating report called Cultural Crossings. Unfortunately it’s taken a whole year to make sure that everyone involved agreed with the authors that it was OK for their stories to be shared. In the meantime, the first author, Joitske Hulsebosh has blogged about the project and the guidelines and it’s obvious that they could be useful to a wider audience.