Description:
The Journey Scroll began as a custom collaborative participatory retrospective evaluation technique of documenting the history of a process, movement or program based on stakeholder recollection. The process involves engaging stakeholders in creating an interactive timeline with qualities of activities categorized based on modified characteristics inspired by the classic game “Chutes and Ladders.” Participants will learn by doing and receive tips on how to adapt the method to different situations, including prospective evaluation, planning and organizational development, co-dreaming/visioning and harvesting impact. They will also be invited to contribute their own insights on method use. Some participants may be able to get coaching on implementing the tool in their evaluation practice or community and share lessons with the course participants.

Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course, participants will gain;

• An understanding of how collective power building through wisdom mining (here, showcasing our insight facilitation perspective) improves both excellence and justice in evaluation efforts.
• Competency in how to frame, prepare for, and facilitate a Journey Scroll process.
• Tips on ensuring a just, equitable and inclusive experience for participants.

Session I Agenda:
I. Session Overview – (5 min)
II. Introductions and Boundary-setting – (10 min)
III. Description of Insight Facilitation – (20 minutes)
IV. The Journey Scroll Story - (25 minutes)
IV. Hands on Journey Scroll Set up – (30 min)

Session II Agenda:
I. Review and complete Journey Scroll entries – (20 minutes)
II. Reflection and Analysis – (40 minutes)
III. Applications and Closure. (20 minutes)
IV. A closing circle, followed by completion of evaluations will end the workshop (10 minutes)

This workshop is aligned to AEA’s Competencies and Guiding Principles as follows:
1.0 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
While this particular method is very amenable to adoption by any group of people, the workshop will help evaluation practitioners expand their qualitative toolkit, build their facilitation skills, learn to listen more effectively to all voices, through the data container of the scroll (whether physical or digitally constructed), thereby adding value to existing skills. Participants will learn to apply this tool to instrument creation, planning, and impact as well as documenting progress or journey.
2.0 METHODOLOGY
This is a direct hands on application of a qualitative data collection method which expands upon the often limited perspective of what qualitative data collection can look like and builds upon other journey mapping approaches with included rating devices and facilitation techniques.
3.0 CONTEXT
This tool was designed to center context. Participants will learn how to best foster contextual realities and counter dominance that can arise within the process, as was the reason for the creation of this technique -- when client leadership wanted to exclude voices of former collaborators because they were not liked or had unfavorable departures.
5.0 INTERPERSONAL
Participants will directly address interpersonal dynamics in relation to this technique, which is designed to be inclusive and to favor marginalized groups (both historical and contextual) to gain the best outcomes.

A. Systematic Inquiry: Evaluators conduct data-based inquiries that are thorough, methodical, and contextually relevant.
Participants will learn to value collaborative process and navigate challenges that can arise from them. They will apply this technique according to high data standards, mostly related to inclusion of diverse perspectives in the collection process, verifying data through documents and resources, discussion, collective recall and considerations on how to manage questionable inputs.
B. Competence: Evaluators provide skilled professional services to stakeholders.
This tool relies upon skilled facilitation that is accessible to people with different levels of evaluation expertise. The evaluator acts as a facilitator or can coach and support community facilitation that help stakeholders own their own data , but do so from a perspective that protects against the dynamics of our biases.
C. Integrity: Evaluators behave with honesty and transparency in order to ensure the integrity of the evaluation.
This type of facilitation encourages the use of agreements and transparency in analyses because some of it occurs in the “room” or in ways accessible to participants.
D. Respect for People: Evaluators honor the dignity, well-being, and self-worth of individuals and acknowledge the influence of culture within and across groups.
This tool centers community voice and elevates people's experiences to data which can be researched and verified within the collective as well as by documents and resources.
E. Common Good and Equity: Evaluators strive to contribute to the common good and advancement of an equitable and just society.
This workshop centers community engagement and voice and can be 100% community driven with the evaluators providing the tool as a container for community insights.

Presenter:

Geri Lynn Peak, MPH, DrPH
Owner and Chief Insight Facilitator
Two Gems Consulting Services

Dr. Geri Lynn Peak brings a liberatory lens to evaluation, applied research, facilitation and coaching through Two Gems Consulting Services. She strengthens programs and social innovation by encouraging collaborative co-design that aims to dismantle dominant system harms, build collective power, drive culturally resonant insights and facilitate individual and collective systems-level transformation for the betterment of all. Honored as a “Scholar Practitioner” within the evaluation community, her Group Insight Facilitation approaches promote true understanding: identifying authentically meaningful questions; "listening" to stakeholders wisdom and needs; applying diverse, customized methods; gathering and mining information with openness and detachment; and presenting findings in accessible forms, trusting in and helping stakeholders invoke their wisdom to continually improve their efforts. This self-designated “Spiritual Demographer” leverages the Virtues Project™ as a restorative meaning making support, combining them with her evaluative, analytic and deep listening skills.

Facilitation Experience:
"I have over 50 years of experience facilitating groups and workshops of various sizes. Starting with groups with my teenaged peers on youth and risk behaviors, I have conducted a variety of trainings with very diverse age groups and educational backgrounds. These include teaching and facilitating an array of topics and skills, from middle eastern dance to crafts and jewelry design, sexuality education professional and organizational development, racial equity, justice and liberation and evaluation methods, skills and approaches with audiences from youth and community folks through professionals. I have taught at community programs like Baltimore Healthy Start, academic programs like at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and run training workshops on evaluation, adolescent communication and diversity for the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For four years, I ran a high school with what I have learned would now be called transdisciplinary courses.
"I am a Certified Virtues Project Master Facilitator, conducting standalone workshops, professional and organizational development, and coaching for clients using Virtues Evaluation, a combination of sound evaluation practice with framing based on the Virtues Project ™ strategies. As part of the Awareness to Action team I assisted organizational staff in promoting equity, justice and the oneness of humanity through eliminating the harms of racialization and systemic dominance. In my volunteer work, I use facilitation in organizing and community-engaged activities, collaborative leadership, youth development and capacity building.” - Dr. Peak


Dates:
Wednesday, May 15, 12:00PM- 1:30PM ET
Wednesday, May 22, 12:00PM- 1:30PM ET

Note:
Once you purchase the eStudy you must register for each session. Recordings will be made available to registrants unable to attend sessions live. Recordings will be made available to all registrants for 90 days.