CES Member Webinar: Harvesting Knowledge through Reflection

WHEN: September 27th from 12 pm to 1 pm Eastern Daylight Time

WHERE: CES webinars take place online using the GoToWebinar platform. You can check your computer's requirements here.

REGISTRATION: Log into your CES account to register.

COST: Free for all CES members

LANGUAGE: English

Webinar focus:

How can we as evaluators better harvest our knowledge gained while working in the field? Too often examples of nuanced micro practices and techniques are unobserved, unrecorded, or forgotten. This presentation will facilitate an interactive discussion aimed to increase awareness of those, too often, unvoiced lessons through reflection.

In this dynamic and interactive presentation, participants will be given a practice theory from the literature, and then asked to observe or consider a client-evaluator interaction. The group will discuss their observations and thoughts, and then re-consider the observed client-evaluator interaction from different stakeholder and/or situational perspectives. The practice theories reviewed will come from Jean King’s Interactive Evaluation Practice, Ed Schein’s Humble Inquiry, and Amy Edmonson’s Teaming works.

Participants will receive a tool to further reflect and observe nuanced macro practices and techniques, in given contexts, while working in the field.

Learning objectives:

• To pause and reflect on what it is we see in the field and how to translate those experiences in ways that impact our practice
• To consider how best practice frameworks pair with real-life experiences
• To re-analyze scenarios if framed from the perspective of different stakeholder groups and/or situations
• To share a tool that can further evaluator’s reflection-in-action practices

Biography of presenter

Natalie De Sole is a Senior Evaluator with Vantage Evaluation where she specializes in helping clients see the big picture of how their work fits into a larger context. Before Vantage, she worked most significantly with SPEC Associates for five years. As a researcher at SPEC, Natalie worked on over 20 tailor-made evaluations that helped nonprofit organizations, educational institutions and systems, and foundations learn. She also supported Dr. Hwalek to further develop the client engagement practice model, Evaluation Live! Other employers included the Capacity Building Center for Tribes, American Indian Health and Family Services, College for Ama, and Save the Children UK’s South African Program. Natalie received her M.S.W. focused in Social Policy and Evaluation from the University of Michigan, and her area of practice was Community and Social Systems.

If you have any questions please contact the secretariat at secretariat@evaluationcanada.ca