Health Design Team Agenda

February 6, 2008

1:00PM - 2:30PM (PST)

Call In Number: 866-550-7765

Conference Code: 2389080

 

 

Health Circle Objectives

 

• Connect our current and ongoing learning
• Share resources, tools, information and successful approaches to supporting, developing and connecting health leadership

• Build relationships among leadership programs, researchers, and funders that support individual and collective efforts to create health

   

 

Proposed Meeting Design

 

I.    Happy New Year and Design Team Check-Ins

         What encourages or excites you most these days about creating health?

 

• Boundary Crossing Leadership Statewide Meeting coming up

• Discourse on health in the upcoming election seems to be opening up some space

• Excited about the DC Metro folks who are using the U Process around HIV/AIDS work to come  to some creative breakthrough

• Had a meeting in Prince Georges County, working with Kaiser on their community health initiative with diverse stakeholders;so much energy and vision about how we can work together to  create a new model for healthy communities

• Hopefully we will have an administration that can get some traction

• Safety and sustainability in health systems focus has surprised me in terms of how forward thinking health systems are about going green

 

II.   Since our last call:  Debriefing the Webinars

         What has the feedback been?

         Who are we engaging?

      What have we learned?

 

• People want to be involved in consultative sessions

• This tool was much more helpful and felt more like you were a part of the community

• This could be a viable form for connecting people

• The challenge is around how to follow-up

• People wanted to learn more; wanted a web-based resource on sustainable networks

• The case study format might work at the retreat as well

• Learning more about evaluation

• People were curious to check out the WebEx technology for their program work

 

III.  Retreat Planning - April 10th-11th Napa

          A.    How are our objectives and guiding principles for this retreat evolving since our gathering last March?

• Foster relationships
• Skill building
• Knowledge and resource exchange

• Creating of a Learning Agenda

 

A Design Team member asked if we should have a higher aspiration around more collaboration?  It isn't explicitly stated in our objectives.  We were hoping that people outside of the meetings would share resources, connect graduates, and provide cross-referrals.  How does that all relate to our social network call?  Should we be seeding more collaboration?

 

Do we need a learning agenda or should it be more organic and responsive to whatever is on people's minds now?

 

 

          B.   What, based on the feedback from the last meeting, do we think participants would like more of?  Please review the next steps feedback on the wiki Participant Agenda. 

• What design elements did participants like? 
• What about design elements that we didn't use but were suggested, such as consultative sessions, that would bring value to the process?

• Are there content recommendations out of the last gathering besides the evaluation and alumni work addressed in the calls?

   

       C.    What, based on the surveys, benefit participants? Health Affinity Learning Circle

 

• Are we delivering on the interest in learning more about best practices and exchanging resources and tools?

 

One Design Team member said that one of the things that jumped out at her from the survey was people wanting to gain practical information about leadership development.  Wonder whether people were able to utilize positive deviance in their work which was introduced at the last retreat.  People wanted to talk more about  the application than they got an opportunity to do at the retreat.  How can we better use each other as resources?  People seemed to like the mix of formal and open space; reflection was underscored; highly intentional about holding reflective space and how to do that. Struck by how much traction evaluation has for participants.

 

• Should we think about creating more structure around affinities that have been set up

• Provides a way to organize - how to apply it

• Participants are in the meetings with the intention of collaborating and contributing, and they want to get things to take back with them.  Are we creating a culture that allows people to take back?

 

 

           D.    Brainstorming: What is current, new, exciting or especially interesting?

• Health reform as an electoral issue
• PolicyLink publication on Healthy Communities
• Consumer Health Foundation work with U Process
• Collaborative technologies and social networking

• Other?

   

• Boundary-crossing at TCE
• With the upcoming election, is there an opportunity to use collaborative technologies to create different kinds of networks in new ways?
• Doing the internal work that people need to do to be in dialogue and relationship around listening: How do people do this in their own programs?  Cross program learning for how you cultivate these practices in people.
• Not enough time to do the capacity building work
• How do we cultivate and support participants to do that deeper work?  People will share strategies and experiential strategies.
• Resource exchange around reflective work
• John Capitman of the Central Valley Health Policy Institute is someone who is focused on a lot of policy issues - interested in enhancing public education around health policy issues so that the public is more engaged.  What would it mean to bring people's voices more into the policy process?

   

• When looking at working across organizations (meta-leadership), Lenny Marcus' work stands out but he is very hard to get.  This came up around the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - study what happened in terms of the breakdown of silos - which have also been applied to patient safety.
• Get a survey out that would describe these ideas

 

 

            E.    What ideas are taking shape for the next retreat?

• Content suggestions

• Process suggestions

What about these content opportunities are most interesting to you?

• Seeding Collaboration
• Boundary-crossing
• We could make Boundary Crossing the central theme and then explore the resources: How are you evaluating crossing boundaries and social networking?

 

IV.    Mobilization

• Who was not at our last retreat that we would like to target?
• Who can help with outreach?

• What can we now say about the upcoming retreat based on our most current agreements about content and design that will compel folks to come?

 

V.     Next Steps

Who is doing what, by when?

 

• Deborah will write a piece to send out to the circle

• Betsy Barton and Marlene Bengiamin were mentioned as possible people we might want to invite to be on the design team

   

 

VI.    Closing Reflections