Question Two: What forms of learning community leadership have been most successful and what are the most important ingredients of strong leadership?

Group One

• Strong leadehip has clarity aobut vision and community - embraces it - collective spirit and understanding
• Strong leaderhip helps put community's vision into focus - clarity
• Balances participating with facilitating
• Understand the differences in role and task and authority
• Sharing - passing on
• Shared leadership and responsibility and outcome - advisory groups, etc.
• Listening, Curiosity, Flexibility, open
• Willingness and ability to suspend assumption
• Processes and tools are clear and accessible

Group Two

• New forms of leadership (geese?) - not using old methodologies for new forms
• Power
• Develop sense of trust within group
• Responsive to emerging needs of community
• Leaders as host of community
• Resources/support (financial or and communal) for process at service of community
• Needs and stories of community identified and incorporated

Group Three

• Facilitative leadership recognition of importance of healing - recognition of larger context in which we do the work
• To nourish
• Cultural sensitivity
• Humility and ability to work across boundaries

Group Four

• Need for different types of roles depending on type
• Important that person facilitating group be seen as in service of group
• Recongnize/acknowledge learning that ocurred - L.C. life cycle?
• Make succession plan explicit

Group Five

• Everyone has the ability to practice leadership
• Focus on what we want to accomplish and the wo will emerge
• Leadership should emerge from context of what trying to do