This article describes how a team of juvenile probation officers in Yamhill, Oregon changed its culture and co-created a practice model. A practice model is a shared set of integrated evidence-based practices that an agency believes will result in better public safety outcomes. The practice-based evidence of staff was combined with a new integration of evidence-based practices called COVE. COVE stands for Coaching Options that are Versatile and Effective. The paper describes

On Monday, October 15, I flew to London Gatwick in 45 minutes and then after a 20-minute taxi ride to Roffey Park Institute, Horsham, West Sussex for the first conference of the academy for professional dialogue. Read the article Short Impression of the First Conference of the Academy for Professional Dialogue - by Joop Boukes:

In April of 2020, a group of colleagues and I held a series of dialogues to try to make sense of the pandemic. As a result we set up a series of seven, 90-minute biweekly dialogues between April and July of 2020. Our intention was to make a genuine space for conversation—a dialogue that allowed people to uncover the meaning they were making of the situation, and to listen collectively for what was emerging in an unprecedented way. We did not seek to impose meaning on what we