Collaborative Leadership for Effective Community Change

This was a year-long training oriented to grassroots change-makers. 

Goals

• Help people find within themselves what it takes to make change in their lives and in the world.
• ​Nurture leaders who listen to each other and work together to create real solutions.
• Develop a better understanding of our individual personality types, temperaments and conflict styles so that we can better understand how to interact more effectively with people with different styles.
• Understand implicit and unconscious biases through the lens of the Four I’s of Oppression so that we can understand where and how our biases play out in our lives and in our interactions with other people.
• Develop a better capacity to listen, understand, and work with people across differences and boundaries.
• Develop coalitions to effect change.

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Curriculum Content

• Developing Group Agreements
• Understanding Your Individual Values
• Articulating Your Vision
• Stakeholder Analysis and Engagement
• Understanding Your Role in Change
• Planning for Change
• Developing and Activating Networks
• Telling Your Story of Why
• Working Across Boundaries
• Emotion and Reason
• Implicit Biases, Perceptions, and Assumptions

• Reacting vs. Responding
• The Creation of “Other”
• “The Danger of a Single Story”
• Exploring Identity, Power and Privilege
• Interest-Based Communication
• Intent vs. Impact
• Leadership Leverage Points
• Exploring What Holds You Back
• Action Planning
• Overcoming Obstacles