Run a Fellowship

Manage the fellowship experience from cohort onboarding through learning, action, reflection, and completion.

This pathway begins when the fellowship has been designed, resourced, approved, and recruited.

Your Pathway

1. Onboard → 2. Activate → 3. Support → 4. Connect → 5. Track → 6. Adapt → 7. Complete

1. Onboard

Bring fellows into a shared understanding of the journey.

Clarify:

• purpose

• expectations

• calendar

• learning approach

• outputs

• communication channels

• available support

You're done when: Fellows know what they are entering and what is expected of them.

2. Activate

Move fellows quickly from orientation into meaningful work.

Introduce the first challenge, inquiry, project, or action-research cycle.

Avoid spending too long teaching before fellows engage with real situations.

You're done when: Fellows are actively working on real challenges.

3. Support

Provide the learning, coaching, mentoring, tools, and resources fellows need as their work develops.

Use faculty and AI to strengthen thinking rather than simply provide answers.

Help me do it
[Ask ChatGPT] [Work with Claude] [Open Fellowship Workspace] [Faculty Resources]

You're done when: Fellows can access appropriate support when they encounter difficulty.

4. Connect

Create opportunities for fellows to learn from each other and the wider ecosystem.

Connect fellows across:

• teams

• universities

• countries

• disciplines

• government

• communities

• practitioners

Treat the cohort as a network, not merely a class.

You're done when: Fellows are generating value for one another.

5. Track

Monitor participation, progress, outputs, challenges, and emerging learning.

Do not reduce monitoring to attendance.

Ask:

• What are fellows actually doing?

• What are they discovering?

• Where are they stuck?

• What patterns are appearing across the cohort?

You're done when: The program team can see the state of the fellowship.

6. Adapt

Modify the fellowship based on what participants and faculty are learning.

Change sessions, support, pacing, tools, or activities where appropriate.

You're done when: The fellowship evolves in response to actual participant experience.

7. Complete

Bring the cohort's work together.

Capture outputs, learning, relationships, projects, research, and opportunities for continued collaboration.

Completion should create pathways forward rather than simply issue certificates.

Possible next steps:

[Alumni Network] [Research] [New Project] [Advanced Fellowship] [Become Mentor]

You're done when: Fellows understand what they accomplished and what can happen next.

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