Intensive working weeks with Dorothy and Susan are designed for up to six participants to work on their own projects in scheduled individual meetings and group conversations. These 5-day Weeks have proved highly successful in providing intensive guidance and structure for participants to make progress on developing their IE skills, on planning dissertation projects, research… Read more »
Working at a university, I used work process mapping in my workplace with office colleagues, beginning in work we did every day. This work went on in several academic programme advising offices across campus, one of which I headed, and advisors were being asked to provide input for a university-wide process to plan the reorganization… Read more »
As co-applicant and Coordinator of a large 4-year research programme with 8 projects working with and for rural women’s organizations on their issues, I used mapping with all groups to help clarify the issues, focus and direction of their research. I led and mapped with two teams to delve further into rural women’s poverty and… Read more »
I developed the mapping conventions and technique while I was learning with other city residents how to intervene in local municipal land development processes and at home sketching out the text-based work processes as I was participating in them. I was talking to planners, engineers and city councillors about their work. I mapped layers of… Read more »
At OISE/University of Toronto I was invited to teach a Special Topics course. Five exceptional graduate students each learned work process mapping and exploring institutional organization by putting it to work in their workplaces. Each was working in a professional capacity – in a not-for-profit, college student affairs unit in the university, in a high… Read more »
Under the Ontario government’s Aboriginal Sexual Violence Action Plan I was invited and hired by a provincial Indigenous organization to provide IE and mapping training to Indigenous community organizations, to assist them in identifying community-specific institutional issues, developing their projects, and to support them in their research and identifying changes that could help their communities…. Read more »
I have had the honour and privilege of working with Ganohkwasra Family Assault Support Services on two projects that begin with and work for, the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory community and Haudenosaunee people. We adapted Institutional Ethnography concepts, methods, and techniques; prioritized Ganohkwasra’s goals of building knowledge and reciprocal relations among agencies… Read more »