Personal Knowledge Management often focuses on tools, systems, and individual workflows. Yet beneath every system lies something more fundamental: how we make sense of experience in the first place. Sensemaking is not just personal — it is relational.

Session description:

This session explores sensemaking as a shared, emergent process. We look at what happens when people come together to surface and compare how they notice, interpret, connect, and integrate information—without forcing alignment or consensus. Rather than optimizing outputs, the focus is on making inner processes visible.

Over the past year, we — Dr. Meera Joshi (Oxf University) and I — have been piloting a Personal Process Lab: a structured yet open space where participants articulate their own ways of thinking while witnessing those of others. Through dialogue, reflection, and contrast, people begin to recognize patterns in their cognition that were previously implicit or invisible.

The key insight for the PKM community is simple but powerful: deep forms of clarity cannot be reached alone. When sensemaking is done together, individual knowledge systems become richer, more grounded, and more adaptable. The session shares the principles, practices, and early learnings from this work and invites a broader view of PKM as not only personal, but collective.