Each Community of Practice will begin and end with an in-person meeting to be attended by all the Community of Practice's lead congregational representatives. 

• The inaugural meeting will allow participants to begin to build relationships, share learning and initiate the work on the Community of Practice topic.  Ideally we see this work as a partnership between the staff and lay leaders from each congregation.  These relationships will be essential when they share information about their congregational experiment. 
  
  
• Monthly gatherings: The initial meeting will be followed by monthly conference call gatherings of the Community of Practice devoted to:
  
  
• Learning from: research in the field, best principles (those that are at the heart of the subject and should be considered when trying to experiment and innovate), and practitioners.
• Assisting the congregational task force or committee in creating and implementing an appropriate Community  of practice experiment within the synagogue. 
• Sharing successes and receiving assistance with challenges once the experiment is underway.
  
  
• E-learning: Throughout the 18 months there also will be time for asynchronistic (on your own time) learning through a web platform that allows:
• Sharing of resources and congregational experimentation
• Open virtual dialogue
• Highlighting of new knowledge
  
  
• Final in-person meeting: Each community of practice will share their experiments and learning, and the knowledge they have discovered, at a final in-person gathering. More information will be made available during the community of practice engagement.