Core Questions: • What is the connection between individual and organizational transformation? How do we make the jump from one level to the other in our work and practice? • What does the emerging social justice movement that we are tying to embody look and feel like? What new capacities and practices will we need to get there? Assumptions: • Practice and action are important. We want to balance our thinking capacity with our capacity to act; we will use a range of practices throughout the gathering to ground our dialogue • The gathering will be guided by core questions that the group works to answer over the course of our time together • We are creating a space that is energizing, inspiring and celebratory • We are not necessarily striving for a joint pedagogy but we are interested in where our theories of change overlap. Draft Agenda We want to stress that this really is a DRAFT agenda and reflects where we are in the process!! Friday, June 5 7:00 Optional Shared Practice 8:30 Breakfast and Gather 9:30 Welcome, Opening Ritual and Introductions Framing the Gathering 11:00 Old Shape - New Shape: Creating new possibilities, leveraging the moment 1:00 Lunch 2:30 Individual Transformation to Movement Leadership This session will focus on individual transformation and how it impacts movement leadership. The goal is to help the group mine our collective experience, practices, questions and learning edges. After beginning with practice, we will have a “story panel” with leaders who can talk about how their individual practice is impacting their work as leaders in the social justice movement, the lessons and challenges they’ve faced on the journey; where they got support; and their learning edges. Participants will then have space to share their own stories (in relationship to the guiding questions) and pull out key themes, practices and principles. 5:00 Synthesizing the Day 6:30 Dinner 8:00 Social Group Time: music, fire and more Saturday, June 6 7:00 Optional Shared Practice 8:00 Breakfast 9:00 Open Day 9:30 Integrating Transformative Practice into Social Justice Organizations This session will focus the links bewteen individual transformation, organizational transformation and movement transformation. We will profile groups with in-depth examples of how frontline social justice organizations are applying transformative practice at an organizational level. These “experiential case studies” will explore how practice is impacting their culture and structure, their organizing practice and/or their alliance and movement building work. 12:30 Lunch and the Land 2:30 Ideology, Strategy and Transformation Ideology is a core strength and stumbling block for left movements. This session will use practices to help participants explore our relationship to ideology (and strategy) and how to be in right relationship with it. 4:00 Next Steps & Affinity Groups In this session, participants begin to reflect on what they want to take away from the gathering. After individual reflection, participants will move into affinity groups (e.g. frontline groups around a common interest, funders, trainers, etc) to discuss next steps needed to build momentum and critical mass among these groups. 5:30 Synthesizing the Day 7:00 Dinner 8:30 Social Time (Optional): Open mic and dancing Sunday, June 7 7:00 Optional Shared Practice 8:00 Breakfast 9:00 Open Day 9:15 Re-visioning, Re-Shaping The group will explore how to identify the shared principles and practices that could strengthen the social justice movement; and practice a “new shape” for the social justice movement that is aligned with our vision. 11:30 Summary of Learning and Next Steps We'll reflect back the key learning and questions generated through the gathering, summarize where this collective work is going and highlight clear next steps for the conveners and others. 12:00 Closing Ritual |