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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/09/2012 14:15, George Pór wrote:<br>
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          <div>Reputation metric makes me squirm.  Any form of
            Scientific Method and I mean 'Form" that is attempted is
            dubious at best, and will fail to garner results.  The
            existential chit chat with colleagues may be more useful.<br>
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        <div>with all the thousands of them, with many of which I've
          never had and will have a chance to mee person?</div>
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        <div>reputation in small, face-to-face groups is easy</div>
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    Not in my experience over the last decade and a half - 'reputation',
    where for instance something like civic accountability is at issue,
    is a demanding form of work, or production.<br>
    <br>
    What we have found (this work is also a form of cooperative inquiry)
    is that a key element in the assessing of reputation is the
    establishment of trust. Trust tends to based on disclosure - you
    want high levels of trust - then create a safe space where high
    levels of disclosure are encouraged/tolerated - and as I have
    mentioned in the earlier message where the distribution of power is
    also under close scrutiny by everyone involved.<br>
    <br>
    Scaling remains a question for us in IPN but this network of 150 or
    so people has run on completely non-hierarchical lines for 17
    years,  a treasurer, yes, but no chair, no offices. In that time
    there have been around 50 national gatherings of 20-30
    self-selecting people who, without even facilitation, make decisions
    about resources, policy and promotion. <br>
    <br>
    Collaboration in networks of peers seems necessarily to grow from
    the original kernels of creative commitment and trust, plus endless
    patience with negotiation, ie lots of 'existential chit chat'.<br>
    <br>
    Denis<br>
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        <div>when we also want to collaborate in large, global networks
          of peers, then we need something more feasible than
          the existential chit chat, IMHO</div>
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        <div>george</div>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:32 AM,
            Denis Postle <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:d.postle@btinternet.com" target="_blank">d.postle@btinternet.com</a>&gt;</span>
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                  face="Trebuchet MS">Hi Robin,<br>
                  I don't know how you would apply it to complementary
                  currencies</font> but various versions of the
                arrangements you outline have been in place for 17 years
                in <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://i-p-n.org/"
                  target="_blank">The Independent Practitioner Network
                  [IPN]</a> that I belong to in the UK. Smaller groups
                than you mention, 5-8, meet every six weeks or so. Their
                task is get to know each other well enough to be able to
                'stand by' their work with clients (a reputation
                'metric'?). For me the strong version of this derives
                from <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://www.human-inquiry.com/asre.htm"
                  target="_blank">'self and peer assessment'</a> based
                on a list of mutually agreed criteria, which is what you
                seem to be suggesting.<br>
                <br>
                I have written about this extensively, see my
                forthcoming book <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/therapy-futures/#"
                  target="_blank">Therapy Futures</a> and previously <a
                  moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/regulating-the-psychological-therapies-from-taxonomy-to-taxidermy/#.UF63CVEpXnj"
                  target="_blank">Regulating the psychological
                  therapies.</a><br>
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                In my experience your assumption...<br>
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                <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">... that
                  self-determination, that is, autonomy (intrinsic
                  motivation), relatedness and competence is vital for
                  social justice where for individuals to be
                  self-determining, everyone else must be
                  self-determining.</font><br>
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                ...is very sound. <br>
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                A critical other dimension is that the distribution of
                power is constantly under scrutiny, ie that dominance
                and subordination are eliminated. This doesn't mean that
                hierarchies of experience and skill are eliminated but
                that decision making is consensual. A tough task this
                since domination often seems to me to be in the grain of
                the times.<br>
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                I hope this helps <br>
                Denis<br>
                denisATpostle.net<br>
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                <div>On 23/09/2012 01:00, robin wrote:<br>
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                      class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi All</span></p>
                    <p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt"
                      class="MsoNormal">I am researching (via a PhD with
                      the University of Tasmania) the idea of a
                      reputation metric as a currency in a complementary
                      currency project to test whether it would increase
                      trust and other prosocial behaviours in local
                      communities but most importantly to scale up trust
                      between people that don’t know each other. What
                      ideas do people have about how you would structure
                      a reputation metric in practice? My vague ideas at
                      the moment are that you could have resilience
                      circles, small groups of 20 to 30 people who would
                      meet once a month. They would act as support for
                      each other, but also the group would allocate a
                      score for individuals over the previous month
                      based on set criteria for how each have exchanged
                      with other people whether in the group or with
                      others in different groups against the criteria
                      which would attempt to vaguely measure autonomy,
                      competence and relatedness. My research is based
                      on the assumption that self-determination, that
                      is, autonomy (intrinsic motivation), relatedness
                      and competence is vital for social justice where
                      for individuals to be self-determining, everyone
                      else must be self-determining.</p>
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                    <div>Any advice appreciated, eg are there are other
                      groups that I could this to that might be
                      relevant? Do I need to supply more information?</div>
                    <div>Thanks &amp; regards</div>
                    <div>Robin</div>
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