Synthesis of World Cafe.docCreating Space VIII

 

 

Facilitation Team:  Odin Zackman of Dig In, Omisade Burney Scott of Ananse Consulting, Elissa Perry of the Leadership Learning Community

 

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM       Breakfast, Registration & Getting Connected

• Continental breakfast, registration and getting connected

• Exploring the community commons space: graffiti walls, blogosphere, wiki

Welcome - Donna Stark, Annie E. Casey Foundation and Chair of the LLC Board

• Grounding our Learning in an Appreciation of Place: About Baltimore - Pamela King, Open Society Institute 

• Our theme and aspirations- Framing the questions for our learning and themes for each day - Deborah Meehan, Leadership Learning Community

 

Centering, Navigating and Getting to Know Our Space

• Centering & Reflection - Omisade Burney Scott, Active Living by Design/Ananse Consulting and Jennie Trotter, Wholistic Stress Control Institute

 

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM       Navigating Creating Space and Getting to know the Leadership Learning Community

• Introduction to Creating Space VIII- Self-organizing, peer learning and making the most of CS, work in the commons, open space, connecting time, logistics and much more
• Hop on the LLC Carousel and join the conversation about learning circles, open space, creating space, website, consulting services, and community contributions.  This opportunity will be hosted by LLC Staff and members of the LLC community.

 

10:30 -10:45 AM    Break

 

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM     Learning from Our Stories

Omisade Burney Scott, Active Living by Design/Ananse Consulting and Dale Nienow, Center for Ethical Leadership

• Storytelling – learning from our stories.
• Co-creating our learning space
• Introductions/Posting Intentions

 

12:15 - 12:30 PM     Appreciating Questions and A Preview of What's to Come

 

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM   Lunch

 

2:00 - 5:30 PM      What Have We Experienced about the Collective Nature of Leadership

 

2:00 - 2:15 PM      Introduction and Framing for Miguel Guajardo

Dale Nienow, Center for Ethical Leadership

2:15- 3:30 PM      Conversation Catalyst:  The Role of Place in Collective Leadership

Miguel Guajardo, Education and Community Leadership, Texas State University, San Marcos

• Learning from the Kellogg Leaders for Community Change Program - Mining a community leadership model for lessons on the role of place in collective leadership.

 

3:30- 3:45 PM     BREAK

 

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM   Conversation Catalyst:  Social Web, Social Movements & the Emergence of Collective Leadership

Elissa Perry, Leadership Learning Community; Eugene Eric Kim, Blue Oxen; Allison Fine, author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age

 

5:00 - 5:30 PM         Community Closing Reflections                                 

- Discussion of technology troubling: questions of access and privilege

- Abundance but not equally shared

- Is Open Space accessible  to everyone?

- I felt connections

- Talk with "new" people in a familiar group

- Expanded view of facilitation and collective

- Heart-share; deeply moved by the beauty of exchanges

- Balance of and relationship to tensions of charismatic leaders and/or the idea of guru in spiritual practice - how does it support and impede growth?

- Collective leadership is about love and power

- Holding the tension of power

- Using/building a common language

- Time/permission to land/arrive

- Apprciation/frustration with opening exercise

- "I didn't believe it" (content, theme, integration) - "its really true"

- Stressful, need structure - tell me what to do

- Pairs/story activity

- Appreciate everyone's energy

- Energized, inspired, awesome

- Miguel's presentation, conception of place

- Human-ness of technology and communities - spirit of community, what we can learn from prisons

- Succession/legacy; re-inspired by conversations, messages from youth

 

 Some Ideas and Approaches

- Vary the ways of storytelling

- Bring the questions back - these are the things/ideas that came up for me, what do you think? Approach is situational.

 

 5:30 - 5:45 PM         Preview of Open Space

 

6:30 PM  - Until       Reception/Dinner • Helmand Restaurant, 806 N. Charles Street, Baltimore

 

 

 

Day Two: April 12, 2007

 

Going Deeper

 

8:00 AM                 Breakfast, Registration & Getting Connected

• Continental breakfast, registration and getting connected continues
• Keep exploring community commons: blogosphere, graffiti walls and wiki….

 

8:30 - 9:00 AM     Opening Reflections

 

9:00 - 9:45 AM     Open Space,  Community Contributions & Learning Circles Introduction

Odin Zackman, Dig In

 

Day Two is devoted to open space.  Some of the open space sessions were assigned rooms and posted on the Open Space Scheduling Board to accommodate AV needs.  All of the open space sessions were announced at the start of Open Space.  You can get an idea of some of the contributions by visting the community contributions abstracts.  Much of what was offered during open space emerged spontaneously.

  

9:45 AM - 4:30 PM  Open Space/Community Contributions Begins

 

Noon - 2:00 PM       Buffet Lunch Available in the Commons (Lunch and Breaks during open space are self-monitored)

 

4:30 - 5:30 PM        Community Sharing: Creative Expressions from Open Space Experience

 5:30 – 6:00 PM       Community Closing Reflections

- Difficult to manage leadership in an organization that can be hierarchical - individual processes, costs, decisions etc.

- Define terms if possible as a group

- Collective leadership: a leadership type or the collective nature of leadership dynamics/work

- Collaborative leadership vs collective leadership

- Integrating hierarchy - when does this happen?

- Less questions more answers; more debate about the solutions

- Dig into collective leadership in Open Space

- The challenge of wanting more connections with each other

- The theme of the gathering should be woven in Open Space/Community Contributions

- The more questions you have, the deeper the learning

- We may have to find our own answers

- Collect out thoughts, definitions, vision of collective leadership

- Being in Open Space allows answers that are there

- Maybe missing an opportunity of BEING in collective leadership with each other(i.e.; physical space, tables, chairs etc.)

 

 Evening Dine Arounds – dining and entertainment in and around the Baltimore area - Sign Up in the Commons

 

 

 

 

DAY THREE: April 13, 2007

 

Connections, Convergence and Meaning Making

 

 

7:30 – 8:00 AM        Breakfast – Connecting & Reflecting

•    Continental breakfast, registration and getting connected continues

•    Continue exploring community commons: blogosphere, graffiti walls and wiki….

 

8:00 – 8:15 AM        Opening Reflections

 

8:15 – 8:30 AM        World Café Opening

                               Alain Gauthier, Core Leadership Development

                                    What Is The World Cafe

 

8:30 – 10:00 AM      World Café

                                    World Café Photo Gallery

                                    The Questions

                                    "Collective Notes" From the Cafe Tables        

                                   Synthesis of Cafe Table Notes                      

 

10:00 – 10:15 AM     Gallery Walk

 

10:15 – 10:45 AM    Large Group Meaning Making

 

10:45 – 11:00 AM     Break  

 

11:00 – 11:30 AM    Collective Evaluation Process

                              Claire Reinelt, Leadership Learning Community

 

11: 30 – NOON        Creating Space Closing Ceremony

 

12:00 NOON            Lunch

 

 

 

Thank you for sharing and learning with us!

 

 

 The Creating Space VIII Design Team and Leadership Learning Community Staff

Teri Behrens Omisade Burney-Scott Alain Gauthier Dale Nienow Karma Ruder Wendy Wheeler Odin Zackman	Bella Celnik Deborah Meehan Elissa Perry Claire Reinelt Pauline Vela

 

 

 

Creating Space VIII is made possible with the generous support of The Annie E. Casey Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

 

 

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