Proposed Learning Opportunities

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• Different Ways of Knowing

Convener(s): Members of New Mexico KLCC

 

• A Place We Call Home: Nurturing Leadership for Community Change

Convener(s): Francisco Guajardo, Llano Grande Center for Research and Development, Marsha Timpson, Big Creek People in Action, Two additional conveners TBD

 

• Personal and Interpersonal Learning Processes: Foundations for Collective Leadership Development

Convenor(s): Alain Gauthier, Core Leadership Development Pre-reading materials (PDF download)

 

• Social Web & Social Movements - Exercising Collective Leadership

Convener(s): Eugene Eric Kim, Blue Oxen Associates, Elissa Perry, Leadership Learning Community, and Allison Fine (not confirmed), Author of Momentum: Igniting Change in a Connected Age

 

• Change is Good: A Framework for Building Community through Collective Leadership

Convener(s): Elaine Dorsey, Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development, Kwesi Rollins, Institute of Educational Leadership and Karma Ruder, Center for Ethical Leadership

 

• Dancing Around Leadership: An Out-of-the-Box Learning Experience about Leading and Following

Convener(s): Chad Kubo, and Melanie Moore Kubo, SeeChange Evaluation

 

• What Holds a Social Network Together? The Pros and Cons of Building Strong Group Identities in leadership Cohorts

Convener(s): Melanie Moore Kubo, SeeChange Evaluation; Jim Krile, Blandin Foundation

 

• Making Sense of the Stories: Using Qualitative Data in Evaluating Leadership and Community Change

Convener(s): Melanie Moore Kubo, SeeChange Evaluation

 

• Passion – Place and Purpose: Ingredients for Community Based Collective Leadership

Convener(s): Anita C. Big Spring and Harry Goldman, Kellogg Leadership for Community Change Project (KLCC) – Flathead Site

 

• Creating Gracious Space: Building Relationships Strong Enough to Go Deep

Convener(s): Dale Nienow, Center for Ethical Leadership and Community Representatives

 

• Social Network Mapping and Collective Leadership

Convener(s): Bruce Hoppe, President of Connective Associates LLC, Dianne Russell, Executive Director of the Institute for Conservation Leadership, and Meredith Emmett, Coordinator of North Carolina Community Solutions Network

 

•From Local Action to Trans-Local Systems of Influence

Convener(s): Deborah Frieze, The Berkana Institute

 

• Transitions: The Role of Mentoring

Convener(s): Ken Williams, New Voices, AED Center for Leadership Development

 

•The Power of Eliciting Wisdom as a Collective Leadership Tool

Convener(s): Roger Mills, Health Realization Institute, Center for Sustainable Change

 

• Organizational Cultures

Convener(s): Charles Hicks, Sr. Executive Coach, HRD Consulting Services

 

• Shared Leadership in Social Change Organizations: Insights from a Participatory Research Perspective

Convener(s): Sonia Ospina, Director, Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA), NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla, Associate Director, RCLA, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and LCW Leaders from Social Change Organizations

 

•An Ode to Tanto and Robin: Buckets of Possibility or Change Agents in the American South (CAAS): Understanding Leadership Dynamics in the Context of Race, Place and Generation

Convener(s): C. Milano Harden, Co-Founder/Project Director, CAAS and The Genius Group, Inc. and Omisade Burney-Scott, Co-Founder/Project Director, CAAS and Active Living by Design

 

• Collective Leadership in Intergenerational Work

Convener(s): Ginger Alferos, Mi Casa Resource Center for Women, Lisa Bardwell, Mi Casa Resource Center for Women, Anisha Chablani, Roca, Erica Sullivan, Roca

 

• Applicability of FoxFire Pedagogy to Leadership Development and Community Organizing

Convener(s): Janet Rechtman, Rechtman Consulting Group

 

• Coming Together is a Beginning – Staying Together is Progress – Working Together is Success

Convener(s): Virginia Oehler, Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York

 

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Learning Opportunity Summaries

Different Ways of Knowing

Convener(s): Members of New Mexico KLCC

During the last four years, the New Mexico Community Foundation and the Pueblo of Laguna Department of Education have led the work to create collective leadership among the Pueblos of Laguna and Acoma and the Land Grant Communities of Cubero and Seboyeta, all a part of the Eastern Cibola County School District. Even though these communities have lived side by side for hundreds of years, they have often maintained a sense of separateness throughout their past histories. The work of KLCC was to support these communities coming together to create quality educational opportunities that would embrace their different histories, uniqueness of culture, and recognize the importance of culture in creating an educational environment which unifies and embraces community youth.

As a result of the collective work, there is progress towards a new department of education in the Acoma Pueblo, there is a memorandum of understanding that increases coordination and collaboration among the public school system, the tribal school systems, and the BIA school system. The project has also been successful at engaging community youth in digital storytelling and producing radio programs that help youth claim their voice and rekindle the connections with elders, and community.

For the collective leadership conference we would like to share how we embraced different ways of knowing and different ways of living into our separate and joint identifies and efforts. We would like to share how we welcomed people to be fully involved through relationship and finding place, and at the same time our efforts towards crossing boundaries and find ways of doing important community change work together.

 

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A Place We Call Home: Nurturing Leadership for Community Change

Convener(s): Francisco Guajardo, Llano Grande Center for Research and Development, Marsha Timpson, Big Creek People in Action, Two additional conveners TBD

Working in our respective rural communities, Big Creek People in Action (McDowell County, West Virginia) and the Llano Grande Center for Research and Development (Edcouch, Texas) have practiced collective leadership development which is grounded in community and understands the history of challenge and triumph in our regions. Despite economic indicators labeling our communities as poor, we firmly believe in our cultural, intellectual, and spiritual richness and ability to control our destinies. Our leadership communities operate on the guiding principles of democracy, trust, respect, and the willingness to participate in dialogical processes that nurture diverse individuals to become public agents for positive community change.

Youth and adult partnerships, which are central to our work, have proven to be important in the revitalization of our communities. As youth and adults, alike, gain a greater appreciation for the assets and values our places possess, immediate efforts occur to reinvigorate our local economies, schools, and civil society. In the long-term, we have seen young people remain or return to contribute to the place that raised them. Our collective leadership model, which values place and youth/adult partnerships, has helped us reverse the ubiquitous out-migration that plagues rural communities across the world. Big Creek People in Action and the Llano Grande Center for Research and Development are sites of the Kellogg Leadership for Community Change, an initiative of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

 

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Personal and Interpersonal Learning Processes: Foundations for Collective Leadership Development

Session Convener(s): Alain Gauthier, Core Leadership Development

Session Purpose: The purpose of this session is to explore experientially personal and interpersonal learning processes that enable collective leadership development.

It will be primarily based on my experience in designing and co-leading programs to enhance true partnering and collective leadership capacity across sectors in developing and industrialized countries. Multi-sector collaboration offers unique challenges and opportunities for leaders to accelerate their own development, while contributing to societal learning and addressing some of the world’s most intractable problems – such as hunger, poverty, healthcare for all, and depletion of natural resources.

Participant Engagement: The session will include exercises and experience sharing with and among participants, with emphasis on some of the inner shifts that are needed to move from individual heroic leadership to partnering and collective leadership. If attending is under your consideration, please download and take a look at my article (PDF download) "Developing Collective Leadership: Partnering in Multi-stakeholder Contexts" that has been recently published as a chapter of a collective book on global leadership.

 

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Social Web & Social Movements - Exercising Collective Leadership

Session Convener(s): Eugene Eric Kim, Blue Oxen Associates, Elissa Perry, Leadership Learning Community, and Allison Fine (not confirmed), Author of Momentum: Igniting Change in a Connected Age

There are a great many tools making up what’s becoming known as the social web; and whether one refers to them as web 2.0 (or even 3.0 as the New York Times recently reported), their impact on how we work, communicate, and relate is much deeper and profound than any catchy name might suggest.

Michael Rogers wrote of a recent NetSquared conference in his MSNBC.com column last year (10:43 a.m. PT June 13, 2006 – http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13230538/from/ET/) that despite a lack of hype in the mainstream media, this gathering of 370 philanthropists, nonprofit and non-governmental organizations, humanitarian services and charities—along with technology developers and other “digerati” — was really one of the more influential conferences of the year. The main focus of the gathering, which has as its tagline “Remixing the web for social change,” was exploring how the social web could be and is being harnessed for creating positive impact around a number of global equity and justice issues.

One might wonder how this relates directly to collective leadership and the answer is that it might be more difficult to say how it doesn’t connect. Much of the technology behind this next generation of the web is really about a cultural shift than it is about a new coding language, gadget, or widget. Instead, the social web is a term used to encapsulate a growing set of web-based tools and an emerging philosophy on how to use them. In this catalyst panel we will briefly present information on the subject and pose questions about the practice and the potential of collective leadership from this perspective.

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Change is Good: A Framework for Building Community through Collective Leadership

Convener(s): Elaine Dorsey, Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development, Kwesi Rollins, Institute of Educational Leadership and Karma Ruder, Center for Ethical Leadership

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation established the Kellogg Leadership for Community Change initiative to develop collective, place based leadership for the purpose of advancing sustainable community change. The purpose of this program is to expand community capacity to engage all members of a community in improving the institutions and systems that serve our communities. KLCC is based on a profound belief that to address the significant challenges of our time, we need to engage every person’s gifts and talents and we need to shift decision making to be more inclusive.

 

 

The Framework is the tool designed by the Coordinating Organization to cultivate and sustain collective leadership for community change. This tool starts from the assumption that communities have the wisdom they need to make the changes needed. The framework guides communities through stages of a change process considering critical elements in each stage. The approach is to ask questions so that the local community can assess where they are and what is needed to advance the work.

 

During this session, representatives from the Coordinating Organization will introduce the framework, share stories about how it was used in KLCC communities and offer a workbook created for use by others interested in building collective leadership to support their change work.

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Dancing Around Leadership: An Out-of-the-Box Learning Experience about Leading and Following

Convener(s): Chad Kubo, and Melanie Moore Kubo, SeeChange Evaluation

Dancing Around Leadership is an exceedingly fun workshop for individuals and teams seeking deeper understanding of the nature of leading and following. The medium of the learning experience is partnered social dancing – specifically, swing dancing – a completely non-verbal extended communication that relies entirely on both the leader’s and the follower’s capacities to manage internal voices of self-doubt and mastery, interpersonal issues of withholding and connecting, and uncontrollable, unpredictable features of context and relatedness, ranging from the speed of the music to the ability of one’s partner, to the texture of the dance floor. All fundamentally important human relationships involve these complex elements of self, other, and context. Our basic assumption is that everyone moves in and out of leading and following roles everyday. Experiencing how these roles work (and how we work with them) in the physical world is a very effective metaphor for generating understanding about how they work in other domains as well.

In dance, constant communication is essential between the leader and the follower; otherwise, there is no leading, no following, and no dancing going on – just two people with different ideas about what to do going through the motions of doing it together. Dance may be a near perfect medium for learning about the core skills and attributes of a leader and a follower, and the internal hurdles we all must clear to move in and out of these roles seamlessly.

In a playful, highly-accessible workshop, we take participants through the simplest of dance steps, using each kinesthetic, interpersonal experience as a platform for personal reflection and group learning on key developmental topics, including:

• The essential art of followship

• “Morphing” from follower to leader and back again – we believe this dynamic is at the heart of collective action

• How much leading is enough? Too little?

• When does the lead/follow relationship add up to more than the sum of its parts?

Participants will emerge with a much deeper understanding of leading and following roles that they and their colleagues and constituents play in work and in life. They will also learn how to swing dance!

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What Holds a Social Network Together? The Pros and Cons of Building Strong Group Identities in leadership Cohorts

Session Convener(s): Melanie Moore Kubo, SeeChange Evaluation; Jim Krile, Blandin Foundation

This session will explore the value of a “cohort effect,” in which a group of participants leave a leadership program experience with social bonds that persist for years, and allow for seamless collective action when needed to respond to crisis and opportunity in a community. Brief case examples will be provided from evaluations of the San Francisco Foundation’s Koshland Civic Unity Program, the On the Verge Program in Northern California, and others. Participants will be invited to share their own case examples, and we will explore the following issues:

• What is the value of the emergence of a group “identity”? Are there drawbacks (i.e. perception of elitism)?

• What (if anything) does the idea of a group identity have to do with a social network? With civic capacity?

• Is there evidence that strongly-bonded groups of leaders contribute to more measurable or describable community change than less bonded groups? Are there other factors that can amplify or diminish the effect of a strongly-bonded group (such as access to skills, resources, or decision making power)? Is a strongly-bonded group a necessary and/or sufficient condition for community change?

• What factors make a difference in group identity formation and lasting group bonds? Community size? Group size? Leadership program curriculum or structure? Skills of the facilitator/coach? Pre-existing relationships? Diversity within the group? Social history of the community?

• What lessons are there for designers of leadership programs? For evaluators of leadership programs?

 

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Making Sense of the Stories: Using Qualitative Data in Evaluating Leadership and Community Change

Session Convener(s): Melanie Moore Kubo, SeeChange Evaluation; Teri Behrens, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Many evaluators and program officers face a common challenge of taking great qualitative data (video, photo voice, social network maps, and digital stories) and translating it into a coherent story for a variety of evaluation audiences. In this session, we will frame the issues:

• Rapidly emerging creative methodologies, and an increasing desire by foundation staff to try them out

• Lack of clarity or well-worn pathways around explaining the relationship of individual or small group stories to theories of change, expected outcomes, quantitative findings, and overall impact.

• Skepticism among key stakeholders about the value or “so what” of stories and visual data

• Naming and confronting the difference between knowing something with your head vs. knowing something with your heart. What would it look like to move evaluation audiences toward a union of these ways of knowing?

This will be a creative session – we ask that participants bring examples of qualitative work they’ve assembled for their initiatives. We will create a vehicle for “show and tell,” and also involve everyone in a hands-on activity, taking photos, stories, social network maps, etc., from one or several projects, and working together to figure out how to best tell the overall story from an evaluative perspective. We will share links to and examples of a wide variety of qualitative tools and strategies, with the goal of creating a wiki page of shared resources.

 

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Passion – Place and Purpose: Ingredients for Community Based Collective Leadership

Convener(s): Anita C. Big Spring and Harry Goldman, Kellogg Leadership for Community Change Project (KLCC) – Flathead Site

Members from the Flathead Site would like to share experiences and lessons learned regarding creating and directing public will. This project has given our community the opportunity to develop collective based leadership and has inspired personal growth that enhances individual leadership skills. For the project to succeed, Indian and non-Indian community members who became Kellogg Fellows had to cross cultural, ethnic and economic boundaries to find a common ground where all members were found worthy and respected.

Anita Big Spring and Harry Goldman have worked together as Community Coaches on this KLCC Project and would like to explore with Session participants the following topics:

• The ability to inspire others and kindle hope as basic elements of collective leadership.

• The need to recognize relationship building as a tangible project objective.

• The need to establish a “gracious space” that will validate the individual and empower the group.

• The relationship between individual and group in collective leadership.

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Creating Gracious Space: Building Relationships Strong Enough to Go Deep

Convener(s): Dale Nienow, Center for Ethical Leadership and Community Representatives

Fostering collective leadership requires creating a space where people with different perspectives and gifts can come together, form new relationships and learn new ways to work together. The Kellogg Leadership for Community Change communities have used a model called Gracious Space to help build strong relationships of shared purpose that use different gifts well and where conflict can be productive. Originally developed by the Center for Ethical Leadership, Gracious Space is a spirit and setting where the stranger is welcome and learning in public is embraced. It is a technique and a highly effective leadership tool, but more, it is a way of being that shapes our interaction with others.

Gracious Space cultivates an open space and time where people are unafraid, and where the emphasis is on the exchange of ideas, not on being right. There is increased trust among the people involved, and a willingness to share information. In Gracious Space, creative, effective outcomes emerge that are not possible in a more hasty or combative environment.

This session will share experiences and invite dialogue on the different ways people are creating dynamic containers for building deep relationships of collective leadership. How do you bring spirit into the work? What settings and approaches support the kind of interaction you want? How do you help people work across the boundaries that difference creates? What helps people open up to their own learning and be willing to discover together?

 

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Social Network Mapping and Collective Leadership

Convener(s): Bruce Hoppe, President of Connective Associates LLC, Dianne Russell, Executive Director of the Institute for Conservation Leadership, and Meredith Emmett, Coordinator of North Carolina Community Solutions Network

Developing the power of community networks is increasingly a goal that many leadership development programs and initiatives seek. Last year at Creating Space VII we introduced social network mapping as a way to identify, connect, and develop leaders. This year at Creating Space VIII we will delve more deeply into our experiences with network mapping and collective leadership.

Our session will be based on work that emerged from LLC's Seed Fund Project: "Social Network Analysis for Leadership Learning Circles.” We will review three case studies, each showing different strengths and pitfalls of social network mapping. In particular, we will highlight our work with the Institute for Conservation Leadership (ICL). This case study shows how network mapping can help a foundation-inspired learning community (facilitated by ICL) to grow in their appreciation of the relationships, collective leadership and vision that had begun to emerge from the learning community's activities.

During our session we will also invite participants to discuss how social network mapping applies to their own work and to the collective leadership of LLC.

 

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From Local Action to Trans-Local Systems of Influence

Convener(s): Deborah Frieze, The Berkana Institute

Change occurs in living systems quite differently than our current practices of plans, strategies, and controls. Living systems change through the strength of their connections with those who share their concerns. As these connections strengthen, new levels of capacity, skills, and influence develop. This is emergence: nature’s way of creating radical change and taking things to scale.

The Berkana Institute has been experimenting with the lifecycle of emergence: how living systems begin as networks, shift to intentional communities of practice, and evolve into powerful systems of influence. Over the past three years, we have built an international community of “leadership learning centers” whose commitment is to strengthen their local community’s leadership capacity and self-reliance. These centers are located in Brazil, Canada, Greece, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa, the United States and Zimbabwe. In this Open Space session, we will use a case study from this “trans-local” learning community to explore our collective knowledge about how connecting local actions can lead to large-scale change.

Our session will use a combination of presentation, reflection and World Café dialogue to deepen our understanding of how emergence helps take innovation to scale.

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Transitions: The Role of Mentoring

Convener(s): Ken Williams, New Voices, AED Center for Leadership Development

As the Baby Boomer and "60's" generation retires, the nonprofit sector is poised for a dramatic change in leadership. This transition presents both a challenge to the sector and an opportunity for much needed change. Competition for talent from diverse backgrounds will increase, and organizations will need to find creative ways to share leadership, in keeping with the expectations of emerging leaders who don't believe in or are ambivalent about top-down hierarchies. Critical questions will be: what role can mentoring play in transforming the nonprofit and leadership development sector? How can we promote a "mentoring culture" in all organizations? What is the strategic "business case" for mentoring? (How do we measure "return on investment?") This session will explore definitions, best practices, and resources, etc. Participants will share their own experiences of mentoring and being mentored. All will leave with a free guide to mentoring published by AED's Center for Leadership Development.

 

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The Power of Eliciting Wisdom as a Collective Leadership Tool

Convener(s): Roger Mills, Health Realization Institute, Center for Sustainable Change

This session will present outcomes of grassroots leadership training programs from the Health Realization/Innate Resiliency paradigm conducted in larger scale community empowerment and neighborhood revitalization projects in Miami, Tampa, the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, Oakland, Fresno, San Francisco and rural Illinois. This paradigm is founded on empowering people to realize their own deeper wisdom leading to a broader systems perspective and capacity for insight as well as increased self efficacy and ability to take ownership of the community change process collectively. Residents learn how to move from a state of functioning form more limited “personal” or learned thinking to a vantage place that enables them to see the “big picture” and to appreciate their potential as community leaders to work collaboratively and powerfully with the institutions and organizations that impact their communities, ranging from law enforcement to housing authorities, public health departments and local government to social services, employment, job training and educational institutions.

Outcome data and external evaluations of these projects will be reviewed that demonstrate the impact of these collective leadership programs on personal empowerment and self efficacy, the development of new relationships across ethnicities and turf boundaries that facilitate community wide collaboration and action strategies and community wide changes in crime and violence reduction, employment and education, delinquency and school failure, and other indices of community health and revitalization. The impact of this collective leadership program on how agencies and institutions function in these communities to be more responsive and respectful of grass roots leadership and to grass roots initiatives for change will also be covered in this presentation. A variety of applications and challenges/barriers to implementation of this leadership approach are reviewed. 

 

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Behavioral Styles for Fostering Collaborative Leadership and Organizational Cultures

Convener(s): Charles Hicks, Sr. Executive Coach, HRD Consulting Services

As we move into the 21st Century, we observe that organizational leadership has perpetuated a workplace climate of competitiveness, over-achievement, stressful communications, conflicting goals, dysfunctional behaviors, and a silo mentality emphasizing "more-with-less."

The questions asked for this session are: What organizational leadership outcomes are required for the future? What leadership outcomes will be most critical for strategic capacity building? What leadership outcomes are most appropriate in supporting trends toward globalization?

This session will involve a learning simulation that will:

1) Assess the characteristics of different behavioral leadership styles

2) Sort these styles into authoritative and collaborative categories

3) Outline guidelines for making shifts in behavioral leadership styles

4) Generated related organizational benefits of collaborative leadership styles

The session will be based on a learning simulation and will likely involve case studies, self-assessments, interactive discussions, small group exercises, peer observations, and feedback activities.

Outcome: Expanding our understanding about our capacity for collaborative leadership and the potential benefits that will accrue for organizational effectiveness.

 

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Shared Leadership in Social Change Organizations: Insights from a Participatory Research Perspective

Convener(s): Sonia Ospina, Director, Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA), NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla, Associate Director, RCLA, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and LCW Leaders from Social Change Organizations

The Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA) supports leadership that taps the resources of many voices to make systems and organizations effective, transparent, inclusive and fair. Over the past several years RCLA has worked with hundreds of US-based social justice organizations to shine light on the shared and constructed dimensions of leadership, dispelling the traditional notion of the heroic individual leader.

The discourse on leadership in the US non-profit sector in particular has been dominated by the heroic model of the singular charismatic leader. In contrast, RCLA’s participatory research with social justice organizations has highlighted leadership as a shared process of meaning-making within a community of practice. RCLA has been a proponent of participatory action methodologies through which social justice advocates can learn collaboratively and reflectively from their own experiences. Together with program participants, RCLA recently co-produced and published booklets which highlight case studies that examine, among other things, the shared-leadership characteristics of social organizations participating in our programs.

Our session will highlight the characteristics of shared leadership and provide an opportunity for meeting participants to hear directly from the leaders who practice this type of leadership within their organizations. We will discuss our range of co-produced publications that illustrate shared leadership in action and explore the process of collaborative participatory research.

The panel will include leaders from among our programs’ social change organizations who will discuss their style of leadership and the recent publications which highlight their work and organizations. Two members of the RCLA team—Sonia Ospina, RCLA Director, and Amparo Hofmann, RCLA Associate Director—will join the panel to touch upon the process of collaboration and research methodologies that make this work possible. They will also highlight the common shared-leadership characteristics across organizations. The workshop’s primary focus, however, will be the panelists’ reflections on their own experiences of collaboration in the context of RCLA’s participatory research, exploring its inherent challenges and advantages, thereby telling the story of the process of co-production of knowledge. Consistent with such methodology, the workshop mode itself will be very participatory and engaging.

 

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An Ode to Tanto and Robin: Buckets of Possibility or Change Agents in the American South (CAAS): Understanding Leadership Dynamics in the Context of Race, Place and Generation

Convener(s): C. Milano Harden, Co-Founder/Project Director, CAAS and The Genius Group, Inc. and Omisade Burney-Scott, Co-Founder/Project Director, CAAS and Active Living by Design

This session will share lessons learned from the CAAS Learning Circle journey in three southern communities engaging multi-generational leaders of color in dialogues regarding their leadership experiences—exploring identity, barriers, and supports. This session will also share reflections on the co-design and the emerging learning design that facilitated these gatherings.

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Collective Leadership in Intergenerational Work

Convener(s): Ginger Alferos, Mi Casa Resource Center for Women, Lisa Bardwell, Mi Casa Resource Center for Women, Anisha Chablani, Roca, Erica Sullivan, Roca

Our workshop will address common myths about collective leadership (kind of a Myth Busters section), common misunderstandings about the forms collective leadership can take, and therefore mistakes/oversights when working across generations in a collective style.

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Applicability of FoxFire Pedagogy to Leadership Development and Community Organizing

Convener(s): Janet Rechtman, Rechtman Consulting Group

Since 1965, FoxFire Fund (located in the Appalachian Region of Rabun County, Georgia) has been a leader in place based education – providing training and peer support to teachers who seek to engage in a co-learning experience with their students and communities. In this session, participants will explore applications of FoxFire Core Practices (see www.foxfire.org) as methods for leadership development and community organizing.

 

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Coming Together is a Beginning – Staying Together is Progress – Working Together is Success

Convener(s): Virginia Oehler, Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York

This session will share the intent and implementation of a Leadership Fellow Program designed purposefully to create a cadre of 90-100 leaders/change agents in health, health-related or safety-net organizations in Central and Western New York who serve the frail and elderly or children from poverty. The underpinnings of this 18-month program are: collaborative organizational leadership, team development of inter-organizational projects that manifest the Institute of Medicine’s five core competencies.

 

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