Noon          Participants arrive, create photo board, complete people search exercise, and enjoy lunch

 

1:00PM            Welcome and Opening (1 Hour)    Deborah

 

 

                      A.    Setting the stage     Deborah

 

                             What we hope to accomplish

                             How we have designed the time

                             How we want to be in the space together

 

                      B.    Introductions    Rachel

 

Imagery Exercise: Everyone will introduce themselves explaining why they selected the specific image they selected from displayed photos/objects as they thought about their experience working beyond boundaries.

 

                     C.     Group meaning making    Rachel

 

What themes emerged as you listened to the stories of the images?

What questions emerge for you about this work?

 

2:00PM          Storytelling (45 minutes)   Connie

 

A.     Each person will think of and take notes about a time when they connected with "the usual suspects" (people outside of their organization or usual sphere of operation) in ways that positively influenced his/her thinking or work.

B.     Everyone will share their stories in groups of three focusing on what motivated these connections, what made it work, what was difficult and with what results.

C.     Group meaning-making 

As you listened to the stories, what did you notice about: When people worked beyond boundaries, why, what supported their success, what challenged them, and what impact did they have?  What deeper questions are emerging?  

 

2:45PM            Break 

 

3:00 PM            Appreciative Inquiry:  What can we learn from those who are breaking new ground or al least breaking out of the old patterns                           and entrenchment?     Deborah

Community Contributions: Two members of the health circle have been invited to provide a snapshot of new approaches and tools for:

• Building multi-stakeholder partnerships: A group of HIV/AIDs stakeholders in DC have been working with Otto Scharmer in the U Process to unleash their collective potential of breakthrough change.  They will provide an introduction to the Theory U and share their experience being in the process.

   

 

• Working across new boundaries:  The California Endowment as been investing in 8 leadership programs that are cultivating the abilities of their participants to work more effectively on systems change by connecting across boundaries of race, gender, sexual preference, organization, issue and sector.  They will share a video that profiles the experience of participants from these 8 programs.

   

 

 

4:00PM     Physical Movement: Staying Healthy in Our Bodies (Jennie)

 

4:15PM      Deeper exploration of the resources (45 minutes)   Deborah

 

Participants will self-select to engage in deeper learning with the community contributors to learn more aboout their work or new approaches being offered.  This is an opportunity for others  to offer to share approaches and tools they are using to increase work across boundaries.

 

5:00PM      Sneak Preview: A first peak at our social network map   Claire

 

 

5:15PM      Closing reflections for the day   Connie and Deborah

 

 

5:30PM      Break: Get outside!

 

6:30PM      Dinner: Good food, company and conversation

 

7:30PM      Making connections: Fireside and Poolside Chats, until . . . .

 

 

Day Two:    April 11th, 2008

 

7:30AM      Breakfast

 

8:30AM      Opening     Deborah

 

Morning Stretch

Anything come up over the course of the evening?

 

8:45AM      Social Network Analysis (90 minutes)   Claire

 

A.    Review the results of the social network map (20 minutes)

B.    How can Social Network maps be used? (10 minutes)

C.    How can we use the social network maps ourselves to facilitate our own exchanges of resources and skills? (1 hour)

a.    Have participants self-organize around some of the themes and intersections identified in the network map.

b.    Figure out what it would take to sustain connections and follow up after the meeting?

 

10:15AM    Break

 

10:30AM    Learning Application (1 hour)  Claire

 

 A.  Consultative Session:  One group has volunteered to participate in a consultative session.  If you would also be interested in an opportunity for focused peer input on issues you are grappling with please feel free to volunteer to host a consultative session. 

The California Foundation of Independent Living Centers would like to invite health circle retreat participants to engage in a consultative session review of their current redesign of a Diversity Leadership Institute that seeks to expand services to underserved people with disabilities.  They will share their findings from a pilot project and stakeholders engagement sessions, design ideas and resistance to change.  We believe that all participants will learn from this focus on concrete application.

B.    Open space discussions:  If you are interested in connecting with colleagues around specific issues like evaluation, alumni connections, curriculum, this will be an excellent opportunity to invite others to work on these topics.

 

 

11:30AM    What next? (45 minutes)  Connie

 

• What would it look like for us, as a group, to continue to support one another?

• Did our social network exploration identify common areas of interest and need?

• What forms of connection support which needs?  Peer learning, collaborations, consultations, webinars, listservs?

• Are there next steps for us?

   

12:15PM    Closing Reflections    Deborah

 

Learning from our process: What worked or did not work well? Is there some change that can occur from our work together, individually or collectively that could help to move us beyond our divides?

 

12:30PM    Lunch: Box lunches for poolside fun or early departures!