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Creating genuine and engaging spaces for such development presents a number of challenges for organisers in any one of Ireland’s sixteen Education and Training Board’s community education services who work with a tutor body that are contractually and occupationally precarious and geographically dispersed. In December 2016 a group of adult and community education practitioners came together for a day-long professional development workshop, entitled ‘Deepening Practice’ in which they critically reflected on their values, philosophies, challenges and opportunities as educators. The workshop was creatively recorded by the graphic harvester, Eimear McNally, as a series of hand-drawn, wall-postered images (Figs. 1-7). In what follows Susan Cullinane, a Community Education Facilitator who was also a participant on the day, and Jerry O’Neill, the workshop co-facilitator, engage in an asynchronous reflective dialogue about the process and significance of the workshop that aspired to be part of a slow move towards a critical and creative professional development space forETB educators.  \nKeywords: adult and community education, critical professional development, quality, creative, precarity  \nFigure 1: Graphic recording of workshop  \nFigure 2: Graphic recording of workshop  \nIntroduction  \nOn the 6th of December 2016 a group of adult and community education practitioners came together fora day-long professional development workshop, entitled ‘Deepening Practice’, in Blessington, Co Wicklow. The day was organised by Susan Cullinane, a Community Education Facilitator with Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB) and was developed and  \nfacilitated by Jerry O’Neill and Camilla Fitzsimons from the Department of Adult and Community Education at Maynooth University. The conversationsand themes that emerged throughout a day of critical reflection, group dialogue and activities on participants’ values, philosophies, challenges and opportunities as educators were creatively recorded by the graphic harvester, Eimear McNally, as a series of hand-drawn, wall-postered images (Figs. 1-7) . In what follows Susan, who was also a participant on the day, and Jerry engage in an asynchronous reflective dialogue about the process and significance of the workshop that aspired to be a slow move towards a critical and creative professional development space for ETB educators.  \nSettling in  \nJerry: So, early on a wet, grey Tuesday morning in December, myself, Camilla, Eimear and yourself, Susan, gathered in the ETB centre in Blessington to setup the space and attend to the final bits and pieces that always remain to be done before a session. People started arriving from about 9 am until, in the end, the group composed itself into sixteen participants. In addition to tutors we had some administrative and coordination staff who are centrally involved in community and adult education provision within the service. In fact, I wondered, at one stage, whether having coordinators, like yourself Susan, attend a workshop with tutors would restrict openness in dialogue as you could be seen, if not formally, at least in practice, to represent a line manager role. Was this something you thought about? I was wondering if we should have talked through that more beforehand. With all our sensibility to the play of power in education it seems obvious now that we should.  \nSusan: It is something that myself and some of my colleagues have considered. For instance, we don’t participate at induction workshops for new tutors precisely because we feel that tutors, particularly new tutors to the service, can be more open about the challenges they face. 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