Category:Communities of Practice

A Community of Practice forms around a shared craft that its members already engage in and want to sustain and deepen over time. Here the members are practitioners—writers, mentors, course designers, teachers of a common discipline—and the community is the place where they refine their work, exchange the tacit knowledge that rarely makes it into formal training, and develop a collective expertise that no single member holds alone. The orientation is ongoing rather than time-bound: the value accrues precisely because the group persists, returning to the work again and again and getting better at it together.