Dream

Following a second, brief Appreciative Interview, participants again formed small working groups to identify the key themes emerging from their dreams for an AI community in Australia:

• A village – structural and permeable, learning for leaders
• Active, energetic
• Appreciate many ways
• Build critical mass – infuse AI in everything; accessible
• Catalyst and facilitating agent for generative leadership and succession change
• Check the egos in at the door!
• Connection
• Diverse and inclusive
• Ego-less brand and identity
• Engaging online, face to face, e-journal, e-list
• Face to face and virtual
• Flexibility (how to engage, how much to contribute)
• Framework free of anxiety
• Generosity: financial, knowledge & learning, pro-bono (work to support others)
• Inclusive and collaborative
• Inspiration and openness
• Model AI philosophy in the community e.g. open doors for people, mentoring, embrace diversity
• Peace and sustainability
• Physical and virtual
• Practitioners embody unconditional respect, empathic, emergent list
• Pull, not push
• Recognise capabilities
• Safe place for diverse thinking and ways of knowing
• Simple and sustainable
• Structure supporting purpose (legal accountability structure if handling $$s)
• Structure/Flexibility (balanced)
• Valuing people
• Visible specialist centre
• We should be exploring as an AI community: venue/event; web group and face to face; ‘voice’ of an Australian group
• Welcoming of all points of view and all experiences
• ? the world! Adversarial –> constructive (Schools!)