Stone Soup Leadership Institute/Baltimore

November 17-19, 2000

Overview of the Training Program

Friday, November 17; 6-8 p.m.

I. Welcome

II. Overview

• The Stone Soup Leadership Institute/Baltimore

• Remarks from Institute organizational partners

• Introduce Stone Soup Leadership Institute Faculty

• Recognition of sponsors

• Feature video: In Celebration of Heroes with Walter Cronkite

III. Overview of the weekend

• Goal: use the Stone Soup folktale as a metaphor: we each have a magic stone and we have the power to give and get others to join us in building a world that works for everyone;

• Groundrules: attend 3 days to create a sense of community; use every opportunity to learn;

• Explain the structure of the weekend;

• Small groups organized by teams -- for exercises on following days.

IV. Introductions of participants by sharing their goals: small and large group

• What do they want in their lives, in their communities for the world?

• What are their greatest gifts???

• What is their greatest challenge?

I. Welcoming and overview of the day

II. Overview of Health Realization by Dr. Rita Shuford, strength-based approach to personal and community change at Miami HUD Modello Housing Project.

III. The Hero's Journey from those featured in the book, Stone Soup for the World

Nane Alejandrez, former drug user, founder, Barrios Unidos, Cesar Chavez Institute;

Nathan Gray, Chair, Earth Train teaching youth media and community organization skills;

Hulas King, Director, Strategic Partnership Programs, EDS Unagraphics Solutions.

Judith Kurland, architect of Healthy Boston; pioneer of healthy communities movement;

Joe Jones, Director of the Center for Fathers, Family and Workforce Development;

Marianne Larned, author,Stone Soup for the World.

Will Morales, former juvenile offender, founder Boston's Youth Police Partnership.

Annette Williams, VP, Community Outreach for the New York Restoration Project

1. Presentation by Leadership Institute Faculty

?they share their personal story and tailor it to address issues in Baltimore.

2. Small group discussion -- all Leadership Institute Faculty serves as resources

• Explore lessons learned from presentation and how to apply to their lives and projects;

• Using the Stone Soup Leader's Guide as a resource by reviewing reflection questions; qualities/values and activities: language arts, social studies, community service projects.

3. Large group dialogue with presentor and all participants: exchange creative ideas and explore innovative ways of engaging others and addressing issues in their neighbhorhoods

III. Leadership Development Skills: Personal Mastery

• Clarify participant goals

• Learn how to develop a noble goal for their life that helps overcome obstacles;

• Learn about the power of making and keeping your commitments;

• Learn how to transform difficult situations through healthy communications;

IV. Leadership Development Skills: Team Development

• Participants work with their teams to share their goals;

• Participants look for differences and common ground.

V. How to bring a Stone Soup spirit to your schools, after-school programs, community.

Presentations about how others are using the Stone Soup curriculum as a framework for engaging others in their schools, neighorhoods and community:

• Leadership Institute/Cincinnati;

• Celebration of Heroes: Martha's Vineyard;

• National pilot program with YMCA;

• 120 communities in schools, churches, prisons, AmeriCorps programs across the country.

VI. Leadership Development Skills: Partnership Development

• Participants develop action plans with assistance from Leadership Institute Faculty

-- Goal: each person and team develops an action plan for 1-3-6-12 months.

• Who do they want to get involved in their community;

• Strategies and challenges they will need to overcome; and opportunities to explore;

• Opportunities to Make Commitments:

-- Baltimore: Safe and Sound and other communities

-- America's Promise: goals 1, 4 and 5

VII. Leadership Development Skills: Declaration of Goals in large group

• Participants declare their goals and ask for support from other participants

Note: this session is conducted during following lunch. Sponsors are invited to attend.

VIII. Leadership Development Skills: Community Development

• Participant/teams join with other teams with common goals to initiate partnerships

IX. Closing: Community Building Experience

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• Provide leadership training opportunity for Safe and Sound's Youth Abassadors and ?contribute to the citywide campaign to improve children's health and safety;

• Connect LEADERship Baltimore alumni with teens and community workers.

• Develop a feeder system for LEADERship Baltimore with future and emerging leaders.

New Skills

1. Learn community organizing skills from:

• Nane Alejandrez: multicultural after-school programs that prevent violence;

• Nathan Gray: media, advocacy, citizen engagement and systems development skills;

• Hulas King: apprenticeships and technology that are bridging the digital divide;

• Judith Kurland: creating public-private partnerships and neighbhorhood coalitions;

• Joe Jones: building networks of support for families with young children;

• Marianne Larned: using the power of storytelling to increase children's literacy;

• Will Morales: developing inner-city partnerships to reduce juvenile gun homicide;

• Annette Williams: engaging youth and disenfranchised people in communities.

2. Learn Leadership Development Skills: personal mastery, team development, communication, conflict resolution, developing goals for life and the world.

3. Learn Health Realization approach to personal and community change:

?develop an increased resilency and ability to sustain learning and bring about ?change, renew hope and move people in their communities into action.

Relationships

• Increase skills shared by community workers and leaders with students;

• Increase number of doors opened by community workers and leaders for students;

• Develop strategies to increase support for teen and community organizer projects;

• Develop strategies for how to encourage people work together for the common good;

• Increase cooperation among schools and organizations who serve young people;

• Develop intergenerational, intersectoral collaborations with those who have consistent goals, programs and outreach constituencies they can work with to achieve their goals;

• Build allies to support policy, programmatic and funding goals;

• Learn about national initiatives and potential opportunities such as the Academic Partnership Programs: Historically Black Colleges and Universities' $250 million grant.

• Develop innovative strategies to communicate the Safe and Sound Campaign goals.

Knowledge

• Develop a greater appreciation for the complexity of cultural competency;

• Increase appreciation for their own and other cultural values that inspire service;

• Learn how to reach out to new and previously unreachable partners and communities;

• Learn how to develop meaningful, productive service projects with young people;

• How to use data to carry on programs, inform potential partners, outcome ?measurements so they can demonstrate they are achieving their goals;

• How service helps reduce negative youth behaviors (drugs, crime, drop out rates etc.);

• How to build social capital and effectively make use of community resources.

• Learn about national movements to increase social investment in communities.

• How to become change agents in their schools, neighborhoods and communities.

I. The Stone Soup Fellows Program: 2001

The Stone Soup Fellows Program will create a community of future and emerging leaders who are using the Stone Soup for the World curriculum as a framework to develop public-private partnerships. In this year-long program, Stone Soup Fellows will

work with local heroes from Baltimore and those from Stone Soup for the World who will share their time, their life stories and their insights. Each Fellow will develop a plan and find a way to realize their own dreams of building a better world by sharing the spirit of Stone Soup, using it as a teaching tool to experience the synergistic power of working together to achieve more than anyone could alone. The Fellows will:

1. Participate in 1-day sessions each month which will include:

• Presentations by local and Stone Soup heroes who can assist with their specific goals;

• Have opportunities to review progress, troubleshoot challenges & recommit to goals;

• Brainstorm sessions with invited leaders (organizations, companies, communities) ?who join with them to develop public-private partnerships to meet specific goals.

2. Hone their organizing and strategic planning skills and learn how to engage their ?community to empower other young people to become leaders;

3. Learn how to collaborate with other Fellows and their organizations

?to create effective public-private partnerships;

4. Receive personalized coaching from Health Realization and Leadership Institute staff;

5. Participate in the Certification training to train others in their schools and community;

6. Connect and learn from other Stone Soup Communities via Stone Soup website.

7. Design and develop service project in their school or communities that will:

• Build on existing literacy, youth leadership, community development initiatives;

• Spotlight young people who are making a difference in their schools and communities;

• Honor local heroes who contribute to neighborhoods and the Baltimore community;

• Identify public relations opportunities to spotlight community service projects/events;

• Recognize business/community leaders who support/fund projects and partnerships.

II. Health Realization Facilitation Training

Dr. Rita Shuford will conduct a weekend Health Realization training for team leaders and supervise them as they work with their teams during the Fellows program. She will incorporate the principles of Health Realization to help Fellows learn how to create the "miracle" of change in their lives and in the world. Dr. Shuford will build on her successful experience of using this revolutionary way of thinking with the HUD Modello Housing Project. Team leaders will learn how to use this personal and community change approach to develop an increased resilency and ability to sustain learning and move people in their communities into action.

III. The Stone Soup Leadership Certification Training

The Certification Training is an unique hands-on program for future and emerging leaders who want to become change agents and improve their schools, neighborhoods and communities. This weekend train-the-trainor training prepares the Stone Soup Fellows to train other people in their community. It consists of inspiring presentations; interactive small group activities; large group dialogue sessions; vision and goal setting exercises and concrete tools and strategies to bring back to their communities. This Certification Training will equip the Stone Soup Fellows to equip others in their schools and communities to develop public-private partnerships and build healthy community.