I read your blog entry with great interest both because it’s rare that I can read about CoP in French, and the important work that you’re doing with Philippe at Grisvert.

The process that you describe below, which seems familiar from the Art of Hosting practicesm is a very natural one:

> les grandes étapes d’un processus de collaboration: la question de départ, la phase de divergence (nourrir et révéler l’intelligence collective), l’émergence d’une vision commune et la convergence de l’activité du groupe vers une réponse, un projet.

I’ve been using it jointly wih the U process, in various client situations, and it works! When the assignment is for a 6-12 month CoP pilot (as is the case in my work with the EU Commission) I integrate them in our Collaborative Learning Expedition approach: http://www.community-intelligence.com/node/160 .

It would be good to have a chat of stuff of mutual interest, one of these days…

Amitiés,

george