(3-5 Things You Are Learning)

• Build community before trying to enact change
• Trend toward differientation between groups – need to work towards integration
• The process works – with empowerment . The community begins to make things happen
• Project definition has changed over time – evolving
• Focus is on change process rather than change itself. Community is critical.
• Idea of collective leadership has a ways to go. Spent time getting to know one another.
• Need to take a better look at who to involve / included in activities – better definition of groups to be involved. Which groups?
• "Change" needs definition and scope. What is change and how much is enough?
• Is citizenship a better word than leadership and/or change?
• Partnerships don’t come easily – particularly when money is involved. Hard to move money across boundaries.
• Farther into the project, things just begin to happen and quickly
• Important to have friends in "high places" – but if not committed with time energy, better to have "lower" people who are committed.
• Focusing much more on specific communities
• The intentional dismanteling of dominance is the difficult work of change – making it explicit
• Privilege needs to be dismantled in order to have effective groups. Some are already the center of the universe, others are marginal or invisible – skills of collaboration are essential
• Power / status questions – "Oh, they’re aren’t our peers, are they?" – Needs to be overcome.
• Need for external partners – having them at the table is allowing that to be learned.
• Faculty searching for leadership direction.
• It’s OK to not have all the answers or the "right answer". It’s up to US.
• Opportunities to integrate project into the institution
• Efforts to learn show up in unexpected ways
• Assignment of labels and credit can get in the way. Openness to what is taking place separate from labels and truf – or accepting the moving group’s labels
• Just say "Kellogg" and you can get away with it – reduces turf issues. A weirdness under Kellogg label is OK. Some projects are also having the reverse effect.
• Contextualized
• Patience – timing. Two years for exploration, experimental, discovery. Identifiable products – action / outcome. Hard to rationalize the extension of time to the Phase I. Prior expectations – commitments from participants.
• Question comes up "Why the Kellogg thing rather than something else? Why another thing?"
• Outcomes make positive learning laboratories – opportunity – vehicle
• Flexibility required – constant adjustment – people in and people out
• Kellogg name is valuable / catalytic – diffuses suspicion. Allows for wider spread involvement. Seed money multiplies.
• As many barriers and boundaries exist within one institution as in the consortia.
• Provoke / foment / amplify / perturb something that was set up to be "stable"
• Whole notion of being creative. It is a "pull together" process – have to be creative about how to do that.
• Linkage learning – "roots" of Land Grant & FSPE projects
• Mistake to forget the "food" aspect / Land Grant.

Expectations for Workshop 4

• Readying for Phase II
• Home team leaves here with something different to do than previous home teams – prepared to take action
• Leadership
• Happening
• Issues / Learned

 Open Question for Wednesday

What do you want to do / learn / be as a collective "learning community?"

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