Workshop 4 - Notes

Workshop 4 - Agenda

Raleigh, North Carolina

January 25 - 28, 1999

Moving from the Abstract to the Concrete

Beginning the Transition to Developing Our LINC Phase II Proposal

Objectives:

To create a safe workshop environment that, at every opportunity, models individual/collective responsibility, optimal learning, experimentation, and community building.
To take the abstract learnings about collective leadership and to create opportunities to incorporate these learnings into concrete activities
To share our applications of emergent leadership and learning
To reflect on others thinking regarding leadership and change
To model and develop the use of art and different learning modalities as key components in the learning process
To develop strategies and plans for sharing workshop learning at home.
To add "Proposal Creating" to the leadership exploration/experimentation intention of LINC Phase I

Expectations:

All arrive at the beginning and stay until the end of the Workshop
Sessions will start on time and end on time - utilizing self-organizing systems theory to promote maximum engagement
Participants arrive well prepared
- Participants will have background on the LINC initiative and the Kellogg Foundation's rationale for providing catalyzing funds for this initiative (www.kellogglinc.com/about.html and www.kellogglinc.com/resources/index.asp)
- Participants will have viewed the Foster and Bosserman's videos
- Participants have read "What is LINC?" www.kellogglinc.com/about.html#whatislinc
- Participants will be well-grounded in their project's change and leadership initiatives
- Participants will have an opportunity to read the project logbook before the workshop and will journal and record their thoughts in the project logbook during Workshop #4
- Participants will have a sense of what has preceded this workshop and what is to follow (www.kellogglinc.com/worksho_series/workshop.asp and www.kellogglinc.com/workshop_series/workshop4.html and www.kellogglinc.com/workshop_series/workshop4_agenda.html )

Participants will be engaged in meaningful, respectful, engaging conversations/experiences, using
- active listening
- individual/paired/group reflection
- community-wide sharing

If you have any questions or comments please contact Valerie Baten.