Transformational Leadership & Movement Building in NC
Working agenda below
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Transformational Leadership:
A way of creating change that integrates inner or spiritual awareness with the work of social and structural transformation. This manifests in approaches to leadership, work culture, organizing, collaboration and movement-building that are rooted in a vision of sustainability, interdependence, connection and justice. These approaches tend to be undergirded by values such as compassion and love.
Friday May 11
4 pm: Welcome
Keynote Address on Transformational Leadership and Movement Building, Gihan Perera
Gihan Perera, Executive Director, co-founded the Miami Workers Center(MWC) together with Tony Romano in 1999. MWC uses a variety of strategies from community organizing, leadership development programs, strategic communications, electoral efforts, and coalition building to develop on-the-ground power in South Florida. In early 2007, Gihan co-founded the Right to the City Alliance, a growing national alliance which now has of over 50 grassroots organizations, legal service providers, academics and policy organizations in 8 cities. Most recently Gihan started Florida New Majority to organize, educate and mobilize communities in Florida to win equity and fairness throughout the state. Gihan has become a nationally recognized progressive movement leader, organizer, and strategist. Prior to founding MWC he was a union organizer, leading campaigns in Miami and South and North Carolina for seven years, with Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU).
5:30 pm: Lessons for Movement-Building in North Carolina
Moderator: Omisade Burney-Scott, displaced YWCA worker, Ananse Consulting
Responders:
Erin Dale, Civic Engagement Coordinator, Blueprint North Carolina
Dani Moore, Director, Immigrant Rights Project, North Carolina Justice Center
James Gore, Program Officer, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
Manju Rajendran, Coordinator, All of US NC
6:30 pm: Dinner
8 pm: Transformational Practice in Action
Saturday May 12
7 am: Morning Practice
8 am: Simple breakfast
9 am: Catalyst Panel: Understanding the Movement Landscape through Stories and Strategies
Catalysts
Pia Infante, Director of Organizational Partnerships, Rockwood Leadership Institute
Sean Kosofsky, Executive Director, Blueprint NC; Co-Chair, Protect NC Families
Tami Forte Logan, Center for Participatory Change
Gita Gulati-Partee, President, OpenSource Leadership Strategies
11 am: Concurrent Sessions for Organizers and Capacity-Builders.
1. Organizer Track:
We are defining organizers as people who are building and mobilizing a base of people around specific issues, concerns or campaigns. The track will be convened by members from Blueprint and Democracy North Carolina. The work of this track will include:
~Mapping particular approaches/models of change and organizing and current activity
~Assets and resources to share, what is needed to take work to the next level
2. Capacity Builder Track
We are defining capacity-builders as trainers, consultants, funders, coaches who are supporting and resourcing movement-building work. Tentatively, this track will be convened by the Center for Participatory Change, OpenSource Leadership Strategies and stone circles. The work of this track will include:
~Mapping particular approaches/models of capacity building
~How capacity builders see their roles in resourcing movements
12:30 pm: Lunch
2:00 pm: Concurrent Sessions, Part 2
3:30 pm: Joint Conversation: Themes and Next Steps
6 pm: Dinner and closing
