How did the members of the KwaZulu- Natal (KZN) Provincial Human Resource Development Forum (PHRDF) experience knowledge sharing? This is the question that the study upon which this article is based. The Socialisation, Externalisation, Combination and Internalisation (SECI) model was used as a means of understanding knowledge sharing within a community of practice and as an instrument for giving direction when preparing interventions that can improve practice. The model has previously been used to describe knowledge sharing, but we could not find any studies in which it has been employed to analyse the existing levels of knowledge sharing, or as a starting point to enhance practice. It has also been used to describe knowledge conversion and creation in community of practices (CoPs), but not as a means of gauging the way it operates in a CoP within the public service in South Africa. In the study that this article is based on, the SEC