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2009 Confronting Concerns

OVERVIEW | 1.COMMITTING | 2.FEEDBACK | 3.GOALS | 4.COMMUNICATING | 5.REFLECTIONS | 6.TECHNIQUES

Defining Goals

Leadership Institute, Session 3, March 18, 2009

Present at the meeting: Mala, Brittany, Sister Kathleen, Tene

The purpose of this meeting was to reconnect after a long absence and have all members of the Leadership Institute get an update about the programs that were upcoming. First, we all checked in and shared what had been going on recently in our lives. All of the girls are preparing for the SAT's and college, so that has been occupying a lot of their time. Though Erica and Roshelle were not there, Brittany and Mala shared what they had been up to. After the check in, we spent quite a bit of time talking about the upcoming Confronting Concerns Conference and the workshop that we would be doing. It was decided previously that the workshop, entitled "Ten Tactics for having Talks with Teens", would focus on the strategies that are necessary for adults to use when they are working with teenagers to have dialogues. We brainstormed the important tactics that we wanted to focus on during the workshop and they were: Listening, Patience, Respect, Involvement, Persistence, Incentives, Trust, Honesty, Courage, Diligence, Modeling, Forgiveness, and Non-Judgment. We decided that we would boil these down to ten essential tactics and that for each tactic there would be an explanation/definition and an activity that could be used in order to further that tactic. We decided that at our next meeting, with everyone present, we would focus more on the structure of the workshop and brainstorming activities for each tactic.

The latter part of our meeting we spent using the 'Talking Stick' strategy to brainstorm ideas for a youth conference on dialogue that the Network for Peace is submitting a proposal for. The conference is to be held next year and will hopefully bring 100 youth together to share the work that they do around social change in their communities, and to also teach dialogue skills to youth as well. The Talking Stick activity enabled us to think more specifically about the name of the 2010 Youth Conference. Some of the ideas that the girls brought up are that it is a new time for youth, especially with the election of Barack Obama, who has inspired many youth to become politically active. They thought that incorporating the ideas about youth power and youth being the future should be incorporated into the title and themes of the conference.
» Talking Stick Strategy

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