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Researchers and learning consultants Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner have studied communities of practice across multiple industries. Virtual conferences or online discussion boards can make networking easier, but the positive benefits of a community of practice (CoP) that you regularly interact with cannot be understated. Organists can find themselves working in every corner of the world - from the back-roads of rural Virginia to a Paris arrondissement. [Extracted from the article]

Adam Hockman is a practice and performance consultant on the faculty of the Heifetz International Music Institute. He applies his training in behavioral and learning science to music practice, performance, and teaching, and he writes about these subjects for different music sites and magazines. In the September 2022 installment of this column, I shared some benefits of being part of a "community of practice" (CoP) - a group of people with the same interests or passions who benefit by regularly interacting with one another. [Extracted from the article]