Creating Space VII, the national meeting of the Leadership Learning Community was held April 5-7, 2006 in Durham, North Carolina. We are continuing to receive session materials, notes, and reflections from this years' Creating Space participants. We will continue to post them here as we receive them. You may browse the event agenda with links to session documents by scrolling down this page, or jump to a specific day or session using the links in the Creating Space Table of Contents below.
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ALIGNING VALUES AND LEADERSHIP PRACTICE
Creating Space VII, April 5-7, 2006 – Durham, North Carolina
Creating Space VI in 2005 focused our learning on how to create a more diverse and inclusive leadership culture. Learning activities during this gathering surfaced a set of values important to participants that are not consistently honored, developed or rewarded in leadership practice. Many of these values speak to the integrity of individual and collective leadership behaviors like collaboration, teamwork, interdependence, compassion, humility and heart. Recent events call for leadership that can act on these values. The Leadership Learning Community came together to intensify our learning about how to support, develop, and exercise leadership that can foster breakthrough collaboration on behalf of equity and social justice.
Creating Space Table of Contents
- April 5 – Wednesday
- April 6 – Thursday
- April 7 – Friday
- Creating Space Photo Gallery
- Community Feedback - Post Creating Space Survey Results
April 5 – Wednesday
8:30AM Registration Begins
Visit our world map where you will have an opportunity to identify your home, what you want to learn and what you hope to share at Creating Space VII. Come prepared to be photographed or bring a photo of yourself.
8:30AM – 10:00AM Continental Breakfast at the Grand Ballroom
9:00AM – 12 Noon COMMUNITY WELCOME/CREATING VII OPENS with: 
Circle Sessions
Space will be provided for LLC Circle work. These circles will be pursuing on-going work and may engage in virtual learning to prepare. If you would like to join one of these circles, please contact the circle leader to learn more about their work. Alumni and Evaluation are issue based circles for those with an interest in these leadership issues. The Funders and Health Circles are affinity circles for funders and health leadership program staff, respectively.
___ Alumni Circle – Notes (click to download)
___ Evaluation Circle - Notes (click to visit the Evaluation Learning Circle wiki)
___ Funders Circle: Contact – Notes (click to download)
___ Health Affinity Circle - Notes (click to download)
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9:00AM – 10:00AM New Attendee Orientation
10:00AM – 12 Noon Community Salon Conversations
Help to jump start our learning in salon conversations that will mine experiences related to our theme, e.g. what helps you to “walk the talk;” when you have been part of a group where participants felt strongly supported to express their values, as program staff and funders how are we modeling the values we try to support among leadership program participants?
12:00PM – 1:00PM Buffet Lunch served at the Grand Ballroom
1:00PM – 2:00PM Community Introductions/Opening the Commons
WELCOME TO CREATING SPACE VII and to NORTH CAROLINA: Learn about the history and values of Creating Space; about who is in the room and common interests; and about how we will learn and work together.
Guiding Principles and Community Values
Books and Resources Mentioned by Creating Space VII participants
2:00PM – 3:00PM Katrina Neighbors: Grassroots Leadership in Action
A community conversation with Ray Lee Eurquhart and Pamela Broom about the grassroots leadership response to Hurricane Katrina.
- Ray Eurquhart is a Durham native, a Vietnam US Air Force veteran, a local activist committed to improving the quality of life, living and working conditions of the poor and working people of Durham and the South. He is a retired mechanic with Durham’s Department of Water Management where he also served as Secretary Treasurer/Chief Shop Steward for UE Local 150.
- Pamela Broom recently relocated to Durham from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She has worked on a number of initiatives that include literacy, women’s needs and empowerment and community building. In New Orleans she worked with over 20 non-profit organizations to bring about the revival of a Central City neighborhood thoroughfare. She is a recent recipient of a Louis Stokes Fellowship to study social work and community building.
Katrina Neighbors Notes and Feedback
3:00PM – 3:30PM Break
3:30PM – 4:30PM Walking Our Talk – Conversation Catalyst: David Dodson 
David Dodson is President of MDC. He has directed major projects to strengthen public schools and community colleges, address rural economic decline, create new philanthropic structures and build multi-racial leadership for civic change in the Carolinas, the Deep South and Appalachia. He is a member on the boards of The Hitachi Foundation, Center for Law and Social Policy, Corporation for Enterprise Development and Dwight Hall at Yale – the university center for community service and social justice.
Dodson - Summary of Remarks and Reflections, Please contact us to find out how to contribute or edit!
Whole Group Feedback Conversation after David Dodson
4:30PM – 5:00PM Community Conversation with David Dodson
Gathering the wisdom and reflecting on our work. What are the implications of aligning values and leadership practice? How do we walk our talk? What supports leaders to bring their highest values to social justice work?
Small Group Feedback
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5:00PM – 5:30PM Sneak Previews
Learn more about Thursday’s community contribution sessions.
5:30PM – 6:00PM Community Closing Reflections
7:00PM – 9:00PM Reception/Southern-Style Barbeque Sponsored by the Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC
WHERE:
Durham Arts Council
Pavilion/Balcony
120 Morris Street
Durham, NC (Downtown)
Food by Bullocks Bar B Que
9:00PM – Until Nightcaps and fireside chats at the Millennium Hotel Durham.
No host bar. Bar, lobby, indoor pool and outside patios.
Emerging Questions
April 6 – Thursday
7:30AM – 8:30AM Continental Breakfast at the Grand Ballroom
8:30AM – 8:45AM Welcome Back 
House Keeping and Community Morning Reflections
Guiding Question: What question or deeper knowledge is emerging for you?
8:45AM – 10:15AM Community Contributions I
Join one of our dynamic sessions and learn about innovative ideas and practices in the field.
___Embodied Leadership: The Power of Mindfulness in Aligning Leadership Values and Actions (Part One) Session Notes (click to download)
___Choosing An Evaluation Approach: What Makes Sense for Your Leadership Development Program Session Summary (click to download) Resources (click to download), and The Pathway Map Slide (click to download)
___Turning the Curve: A Collaborative Leadership Model
___Aligning Values of Leadership Development and the Practice of Higher Education Session Summary (click to download)
___Strengthening the Core: Building Strength from the Inside Out Session Synthesis (click to download)
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10:15AM – 10:30AM Break
10:30AM – 12:00PM Community Contributions II 
Join one of our dynamic sessions and learn about innovative ideas and practices in the field.
___Embodied Leadership: The Power of Mindfulness in Aligning Leadership Values and Actions (Part Two)
___Keeping our Eyes on the Prize: Cultivating Self as Responsive Instrument for Equity, Excellence and Social Justice
___Aligning Values and Practices for Leadership: Voices From the Developing World
___Reflective Collaborative Leadership and Multiple Cross-System Partnerships
___Culturally Based Community Building - Outline of Session (click to download) Program Overview (click to download)
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12:00PM– 1:00PM Lunch: Table Top Talks – name your topic of interest and invite others to join in the conversation.
1:00PM – 1:30PM Open Space Orientation and Set-Up
1:30PM – 4:30PM OPEN SPACE
A Creating Space tradition to honor collective wisdom, encourage innovation, fringe conversation, opportunity to connect with others on issue/question of passion and learning. Many of the topics discussed in Open Space shape our learning for the year. For example: community leadership culture that is diverse and inclusive, the integration of leadership and spirituality, etc.
4:30PM – 5:00PM Open Space Sharing 
Open space gatherings were called on a number of topics some of which include:
The group reconvened after Open Space and reported these notes, thoughts, questions, and ahas from their Open Space experiences.
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5:30PM – 5:45PM Break
5:45PM – 6:30PM Culture, Art and Leadership: Life – Just Another Walk In The Park 
Langston Fuze is a poet, writer, spoken word artist, songwriter and arranger, screenwriter, public speaker, actor and visual artist. He has three albums and has several books of poetry published, one of which was awarded the United Arts Council Literature Grant in 2003 – his first book of poetry and social commentary entitled: Plasma Succotash. L-Fuze represents and teaches the importance of Hip-Hop culture through various workshops and live demonstrations. His latest works are: My Hip Hop Don’t Hop No More and Project Windows & Ghetto Memoirs. By his own description, “if peace had a face, I would be a cheekbone.”
6:30PM - Until To facilitate self-organizing, reservations have been made for large groups at several recommended restaurants. Use bulletin boards to connect with other members of the community for a fun night on the town.
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April 7 – Friday
7:30AM – 8:30AM Continental Breakfast at the Grand Ballroom
8:30AM – 8:45AM Welcome Back
House Keeping and Community Morning Reflections
8:45AM – 10:15AM Community Contributions III 
Join one of our dynamic sessions and learn more about innovative ideas and practices in the field.
___Leadership for Social Justice in a Global Context
___Mapping Leadership Networks; Co-Convener(s): Bruce Hoppe, Founder and President, Connective Associates and Claire Reinelt, Director of Research and Evaluation, Leadership Learning Community (Using the Social Network Mapping Tool) Notes and Resources (click to visit the blog resource), A Guide to Reading the CS VII Network Map (click to download), CS VII Network Map (click to download)
___Can Diverse Groups Share Values? Should They? A Working Session; Convener(s): Gita Gulati-Partee Case Stories and Core Values Exercise
10:15AM – 10:30AM Break
10:30AM – 11:30AM Do we only value what we can measure? How can our evaluations do justice to the impact of values in leadership work?
A fishbowl conversation among leadership evaluators and program staff.
11:30AM – 11:45AM Individual and Collective Reflection
11:45AM – 12:00PM Creating Space VII Closing Ceremony 
12:00PM – 1:00PM Box lunches for outside picnics and early departures.
Books and Resources Mentioned by Creating Space VII participants
Post Creating Space Survey Results (click to download)
Creating Space Photo Gallery
Sponsors
The Leadership Learning Community thanks this year's sponsors for helping make these events possible. This year's Creating Space sponsorship is from the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation of Winston-Salem, North Carolina toward the Community Equity Fund; the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina toward the Community Reception Barbeque which was held at the Durham Arts Council; and the Annie E. Casey Foundation toward the Social Network Map creation of Creating Space learning networks.
Thank you for sharing and learning with us!
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