A Community of Practice Metaphor

Created and Presented by:Eassa Alkadri, Sarah Delport, Sarah Hogg

Lisa Pinto & Rita Salieb

The Seed of JourneyThe Tree of Experience

The Forest of Knowledge

The Circle of Educaiton

The AcornSeeds of the Journey

The RootsThe Experience of the Journey

Tree RingsThe Evidence of Time

The LeavesReaching for New Connections

The TreeThe Symbol of Learned Experience

The ForestA Community of Knowledge

The Seasons

Changes in the Wind bring Changes Within

 

Each timber different from its neighbor Yet they stand together protecting each other

As a community they grown and flourishSharing their wisdom to further nourishOne another in every forest, everywhereAs each species has something to share

 Then a bleak wind fills the air

And the leaves hold on unawareThe elements bring on new changes

And slows down the ancestors exchangesThe trees start to loose their petals

And the color transforms into many freckles 

As the cold strengthens and the air begins to stingThe branches loose their leaves and sleeps until

springIts age begins to show and now the time has come

For the oak to drop its seed and to succumbFor the acorn will reproduce Another tree with new roots

  Lisa Pinto

Growing together 

As an acorn exists in a hard shell with only one seed to give,It falls from a tree so it will continue to live,

It moves and shakes; the seed begins to crack its shellStronger and stronger it becomes until a root begins to swell

Its arms and hands reaching into the darkness looking for lightIt struggles to survive, to find its path, to take flight

 Something strong and durable begins to form

A backbone that would hold up to a stormNever does it stop growing and feeding from the earth

The sun, rain and air gives it, its worthTall in the sky, it commands individuality,

To be different and unique to reach its final destiny 

From its trunk it begins to spreadReaching outward and overheadEach finger holding knowledge

With every stem connecting to foliageGreen and spiraled they sway in the windLush in leaves the tree is fully brimmed