Some takeaways from our conversation:

Participants were safe, healthy overall. Talked about our respective experiences, including urban vs rural-ish areas, situation in India.

Work-wise, some are relatively unaffected: work is continuing (with some transitions to virtual). Others have had lots of canceled or frozen work. Lots of uncertainty either way.

Transition to virtual:

Lots of people scrambling. Some practitioners are jumping on this, offering services / trainings on remote collaboration. Mixed feelings on seeing this for a variety of reasons. Concerned about people moving urgently without thinking it through, making decisions about going remote or virtual in brute force ways without really stopping to ask why and to consider what they really need.
Some folks here are comfortable with technology, applying it in their work. Others not so much. Regardless of where we lie on this spectrum, we’re all going to learn something about how to do this well that we’ll be able to take back to whatever we were doing before.
Zoom fatigue. Are people’s assumptions about the value of video correct? It’s tiring being on these all the time. Whatever happened to the good ol’ conference call? On the other hand, nice to see people’s homes, people wearing PJs, kids and pets. We’re all human, less performing. Also, Zoom backgrounds = Snapchat for grownups. Playfulness.

Potential opportunities:

Connect more tech-savvy practitioners with practitioners who’d like some guidance
What are needs that we could be addressing more in alignment with each other, perhaps a collective service offering? Vs everybody just scrambling to offer remote facilitation or helping people help their teams or events go remote.
Practitioner playground. Can we create a space where we all can play and exchange ideas?

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