ENCOURAGEMENT FROM ETIENNE WENGER

Dear Jozefa,

Greetings from Fiji where I am catching up on my e-mail backlog and sorry for the delay in responding. Well, better late than never.

I guess by replacing 'practice' with 'partnership', you mean to emphasize the building of working partnerships rather than mutual learning among practitioners.

I am sure that I am the wrong person to ask for advice on an endeavor like yours as I am personally terribly inept at this sort of thing. My own forays into this territory have ranged from struggling to stumbling. But there are successful models such as the Tapestry Network in the Boston area. I think their success depends on having someone with a flair for the right business model that can sustain the process beyond the enthusiasm of the early stages.

So I wish you well.

All the best,

Etienne

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