Building a sense of community

Imagine you’ve just come to the end of a week-long workshop where you’ve been gathered in one location with colleagues from different parts of your organisation or with a diverse group of people from many different places. In this situation, you might hear comments like those shown here:

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Three speech bubbles in different colours: an orange cloud-shape contains the text ‘It was so good to meet other people and hear their stories’, a blue oval speech bubble states ‘The best bit was chatting in the breaks and learning what others do’ and the third, green rectangular speech bubble has ‘I learned as much from the other participants as I did from the training’.

Replicating this informal peer-to-peer learning is one of the greatest challenges of moving to an online setting.