LIS Alumni · Community of Practice
Interdisciplinarity isn’t just a degree.
It’s a practice.
A six-week pilot for LIS alumni navigating the real world — exploration-based, curiosity-driven and built around the challenges you’re actually facing right now.
Why this exists
You have the skills. The gap is the translation.
You finished your LIS degree with a genuinely different way of thinking — one that cuts across disciplines, holds ambiguity, and resists easy answers. Supported by your teachers and peers, you saw a different way of navigating through the complex problems of the world. And then you walked into the world, and it turned out to be… misunderstood.
The language your colleagues use doesn’t quite match yours. The processes feel rigid. The jobs available don’t call for your skillset. The recruiters do not comprehend your strengths. The support network that made interdisciplinary feel possible at LIS isn’t there in the same way.
You’re not alone in this — it’s one of the most common things we hear from alumni.
The LIS Practice exists to close that gap. Not with lectures or frameworks, but with a regular space to think, practise and experiment alongside peers who get it — and who are facing the exact same translation challenge.
The Community of Practice
“A group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do, and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly — developing a sense of craftsmanship.”
What you can expect
A space to think. A community to grow with.
Each session is designed around what’s alive in the room — not a pre-set curriculum. You bring the questions, the group brings the collective intelligence, and our facilitators hold the space for something genuinely useful to emerge.
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Real challenges, explored together
Each session starts with what’s alive for the group right now — not a pre-set syllabus. Your actual work problems are the curriculum.
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Peer support that’s genuinely useful
The people in the room are LIS alumni at similar career stages. Their perspectives, questions, and experience become your resource.
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Skilled facilitation
Sessions are held by Maya Bahoshy and Alvaro Sanmartin from Minds Studio, applying their experienced approach of peer-led emergent learning to LIS.
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A renewed LIS connection
Stay meaningfully connected to the community, values, and thinking that shaped your degree — beyond the alumni newsletter.
These are real questions brought by LIS alumni in our pilot sessions. This is what gets explored in the room.
No agenda is set in advance. The group decides together what to explore each session — then digs in collectively.
Every person in the room is a resource. You leave each session with new thinking, new connections, and new momentum.
The format
Six Mondays. One hour. + 30 mins optional overflow.
Mondays 12:30–1:30pm (with optional 30-minute continuation for those who want to go deeper)
Investment
Simple, fair pricing.
This is a pilot — which means we’re keeping things accessible while we learn together what works best.
for the full 6-session series
- Six weekly sessions starting 13 April
- Use your employer’s L&D budget if available
- No risk: money-back guarantee (see opposite)
Our promise
If you attend all six sessions and feel you didn’t find anything useful from it, we’ll refund you in full within 30 days. We’re that confident in what happens in the room — and we want you to feel safe giving it a proper go. You just have to show up.
Ready?
Ten to fifteen places.
First come, first in.
We’re opening this pilot to just 10–15 LIS alumni. Sign up by 27 March to secure your place for the 13 April start.
If you have questions before committing, feel free to reach out to the Minds Team ; we’re happy to have a quick conversation first.