Learning Season | Quarterly Report

Learning Season is a quarterly report and learning series designed to slow things down.

Where monthly signals notice what’s emerging, Learning Season creates space to examine why it matters, how it connects, and what it asks of us next. Each quarter focuses on a small number of themes drawn from real-world patterns across work, education, and sport.

Learning Season is about depth, not speed.

Purpose

Most learning happens reactively... after an issue, an incident, or a crisis.

Learning Season exists to:

Move from awareness to understanding
Create continuity instead of one-off learning
Support leaders and practitioners in making sense of complexity
Build capacity, not just compliance

This is learning designed for people who are responsible for others.

Q1 2026 | The Conditions for Learning

Learning does not occur in isolation – it is shaped by systems, culture, power, and interaction. This issue examines the conditions that make learning possible (or impossible) across workplaces and educational settings, including learning maturity, psychological safety, relational trust, and institutional expectations.

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The 2026 Plan

Each quarter features a unique report, supporting sustainable learning and application.

Q1: February Issue

Learning Systems & Culture

How learning systems, theory, and culture interact to shape readiness, safety, and participation across workplaces and classrooms.

This season examines learning maturity, psychological safety, and the gap between how learning is designed and how it’s actually experienced.

Q2: May Issue

Decision-Making, Cognition & Risk

How decisions are made in complex systems, and how bias, cognition, and risk shape outcomes more than intent alone.

This season connects decision theory, behavioral science, and applied problem-solving to real-world judgment and planning.

Q3: August Issue

Communication, Power & Group Dynamics

How communication, identity, and group dynamics influence trust, accountability, and collective learning.

This season explores where dialogue breaks down, how power operates in teams, and what enables learning in contested spaces.

Q4: November Issue

Performance, Evaluation & Sustainability

How learning is measured, justified, and sustained beyond short-term performance metrics.

This season examines impact, ethics, and ROI – asking what endures, what disappears, and what learning leaves behind.

Not a one-off training. Not a fast solution. A report designed for sustained learning.

The Learning Ecosystem

Learning Season sits within a broader learning ecosystem:

Beyond the Playbook (weekly): thinking through decisions, tensions, and practice
Signals & Patterns (monthly): noticing what’s emerging and repeating
Learning Season (quarterly): making meaning, building depth, and strengthening capacity

Each serves a different purpose. Together, they support sustained learning.