This was the focus of the first Children’s Nursing Educator Forum of 2022. At this meeting on March 30^th 2022, nursing educators from across the continent were encouraged to consider what one needs to create a Community of Practice.

Key note speaker, Emeritus Professor Marian Jacobs, has been a community of practice builder since 1989. She shared some pearls on how to establish a community of practice which she defined as “a group of people who share a concern or passion of what they do, and learn how to do it better while interacting regularly”.

Lessons I learnt:

• The importance of team work to reach outcomes quicker
• Looking at the ultimate goal motivates participants to reach consensus
• Communities that eat together stay together, share recipes and help each other in selfcare (i.e. in looking after oneself)
• Build trust to enable opportunities to ask difficult questions

 (Nonhlanhla Mtolo, Lecturer, CNDU)