In 2014 I started the first of the online PKM workshops, based on a model of three activities per week over six weeks to be done as a cohort with a common start and finish date. I would be available to respond to participants and provide support as required, including video calls.
It’s now the end of the line.
The workshop has hosted hundreds of participants from around the world. The activities have been modified each year so the current version looks fairly different from the first. The last workshop will start on 5 October 2026. As always, previous participants may attend at no extra cost. But there will be no more online PKM workshops.
The rampant rise of Gen AI tools is one of the reasons I will be shutting down this workshop series after the October cohort. I need to figure out how we can individually and collectively make sense as we wallow in the AI slop. I am thinking of a series of live sessions for small groups of inquiring minds, but nothing is firm yet. In addition, I feel unqualified to talk with any authority on Generative AI (though I have written a few posts) and that is another reason to close this workshop, as I know it will likely need more of a focus on AI and I am not willing to invest the effort at this time — the technology and the business models around it are changing too fast. So I need to pivot if I wish to promote sensemaking in the current environment. This may take some time.
Please join us for one last ride before the end of the line.
This is sad in many senses…but you leave a legacy in the many people who are able to operate in a chaotic world. Your dilemma here is the unidentified dilemma the world faces. Count me in for one last ride…and for what emerges after.
You can be justifiably proud of your contribution.
Thank you
You are booked, Shaun. I will spend the next few months making sure everything is up to date.
Harold, I would love to rejoin for this; one last ride, the end of this current line.
How do I register for the October 5th 2016 workshop?
You can register here, Julie-Ann. And I assume you mean 2026.
https://jarche.com/pkm/pkm-workshop/
I would like to (re)join your workshop, Harold. Taking your workshop for the first time in 2015 – I STILL(!!!) have notes in my Google Drive from 2015!
As you may recall, I am thankful that Jeff Miller (R.I.P.) mentioned your blog as part of his servant leadership teachings back in 2011. I do remember learning when you started your workshop in 2014. In fact, I see I have in an old Sept 2014 blog post, Share – Catch and Release Knowledge, https://anthrocubeology.com/2014/09/13/catch-and-release-knowledge/ . . . go figure!
Thank you for continuing to provide life time access, aka at no extra cost, to alums for rejoining the workshop.
Peace.
Dear Harold,
your PKM workshop and your work was an eye-opener for me on so many levels. I would love to join the final cohort.
I hope you continue to encourage us to embrace and actively apply sensemaking in this age of AI Slop and information overload.
THANK YOU!
You are booked, Stefan!