Description: The overall goal of this webinar is to share a suite of interventions guided by the complexity leadership framework. All the interventions have been field tested in different convergence research teams and fall under the umbrella of “adaptive spaces”. Adaptive spaces form the basis for an emergent model of comprehensive, long-term team science support for multi-year, multi-institute, and multi-million-dollar convergence science projects. Although this emergent model was  developed primarily in the context of three National Science Foundation funded convergence research projects, we believe the experiences and lessons are applicable to other science teams of different scales and funding sources. 

Participants of the webinar will learn specific techniques to hold adaptive spaces, such as holding ideation workshops to support new idea generation, hosting conversation spaces to develop affective relationships, delivering collaboration capacity building workshops based on team needs identified through observations and interviews, and designing and facilitating annual whole-team, in-person retreats. 

Speaker: Gemma Jiang, PhD, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Colorado State University.

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