September 2023 Meeting
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September 2023
Deep Dive Topic: Why it is critical to recognise and nurture the changing nature of leadership.
Speaker: Ruby Moore, Executive Officer, Georgia Advocacy Office (USA)
Ruby Moore is the Executive Director of the Georgia Advocacy Office, the designated Protection and Advocacy System for People with Disabilities in Georgia. Moore is nationally known for her work in the disability field over the past 40 years, particularly in the areas of employment, augmentative communication, and the design and implementation of supports necessary for people with significant disabilities to live, work, play, and go to school in the community.
Her experience includes growing up with family members with disabilities, working in both institutional and community settings, running provider organizations, working within and outside government bureaucracies, individual and systemic advocacy, directly supporting individuals to obtain employment, housing, and other supports necessary to live in the community, and working to improve local, state and national disability policy.
Moore has over 30 years of experience helping people wrongly considered “unemployable” due to their disabilities to get jobs (and build careers). She was one of the architects of the national supported employment initiative and was one of a small group of people working on early national technical assistance grants to the states for their statewide change grants. She ran an employment institute in MA, and was an employment provider for 16 years. She helped to set up statewide employment institutes and technical assistance centers in NH and CT. Moore also ran a federally-funded model demonstration program securing high quality employment for people with dual sensory impairments (“deaf-blindness”) in New England, replicated the project in California, and provided technical assistance across the United States and in several other countries.
Deep dive section
Unfortunately our planned speaker Dr Michael Kendrick was unable to join us. We are very grateful to Ruby for stepping in and joining us for this conversation.
We will explore the below questions with Michael:
Why is it important that we maintain and expand leadership within inclusion and rights-based movements such as disabilities, mental health, and addictions?
How do we define leaders and leadership?
What starts to change when we think about leadership development not as developing individual leaders but as developing collective groups?
What are the supports and resources needed to nurture the lifelong journey of becoming a leader?
You can submit additional questions when you register to attend.
Time and date by location
North America
Vancouver, Canada: Thursday 14 September, 3.00pm
Washington D.C, USA: Thursday 14 September. 6.00pm
Nova Scotia, Canada: Thursday 14 September. 7.00pm
Europe
Dublin, Ireland: Thursday 14 September. 11.00pm
London, England: Thursday 14 September. 11.00pm
Stockholm, Sweden: Friday 15 September. 12.00am (Midnight)
Pacific
Perth, Australia: Friday 15 September. 6.00am
Sydney, Australia: Friday 15 September: 8.00am
Wellington, New Zealand: Friday 15 September: 10.00am
Peer Mentoring section
For 35 minutes, we will have conversations in small groups. This is your chance to start building deeper connections with people all over the world who share your values and interest in topics related to Emerging Leadership.
You will be in small breakout groups of 3 - 5 people. Each group might be a little bit different - that's ok! The important thing is sharing and connecting in a way that makes sense for you.
Here's the basic structure we suggest:
Agree how will you monitor the time and make sure everyone gets a chance to talk. Do you want to pick one person to be time keeper or facilitator?
Start by building trust and letting people warm up with a check in question. Keep this short and sweet. We like:
Highs and Lows: Ask everyone to think of their “high and low” – this is their favourite thing that happened recently, and least favourite thing that happened recently.
Give everyone a chance to think, then share with the group.Discuss what was the most important or most interesting point from the speaker.
Some questions that might help you start a discussion (don't try and answer all of these, this is just to help you start chatting):
What did the speaker say that surprised you AND explain why?
What do you want to start doing because of what the speaker said?
What do you want to stop doing because of what the speaker said?Share any goals or things you would like your peers to help you be accountable for doing. Try and spend most of your time talking about this.
Some questions that might help you start a discussion (don't try and answer all of these, this is just to help you start chatting):
What risks have you taken in life that you are really glad you took? What helped you take them?
What are you guiding principles and truths? How do these help you in your leadership?
In what situations do I hold back from speaking my truth? What can I do to feel more confident in these situations?
You can talk about:
Something important said in the deep dive topic.
Something you are working on.
Something you have learned.
An idea you have.
Ask for advice.
When we do peer mentoring we:
Listen to each other
Be patient
Give advice or ideas
Share your own experiences to help people learn
Offer and accept constructive feedback
Encourage people to expand their comfort zone by trying new things
What peer-based mentoring is not
A co-dependent relationship where other people are acting as therapists.
A relationship where the mentors discipline the mentees.
A senior person one-way downloading knowledge to a junior person.
Someone to save your career or do things for you.