turning outward to lead change in your community: sustaining yourself #alamw15#librariestransform
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Turning Outward to Lead Change in Your Community: Sustaining Yourself
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AGENDA
• Libraries Transforming Communities • Harwood Institute for Public Innovation• How to get the most out of this session• Authenticity and sustaining yourself
– Experience– Benefits and how to use at home
• Other sessions and tools for community engagement• Evaluation
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About Harwood
• National nonprofit working with you to address community challenges in a way that makes your library and community stronger
• Proven 25-year track record• What’s different – Turning Outward
If you turn outward and make more intentional judgments and choices in creating change, you will produce greater
impact and relevance in your community.
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Turning Outward
An orientation toward community – literally about the direction we are facing!
Without it, there is little chance for change.
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The “Turning Outward” Approach: Four Foundational Tools
Aspirations
Turn QuizIntentionality
Sustaining Yourself
Talk to your community, framing the conversation to best understand their hopes, challenges and conditions for change
Approach your work with the community, not the institution, at the heart of all discussion and action
Act intentionally and authentically, evaluating your success as you go
Rejuvenate; make wellbeing for yourself and your team a priority
3A’s Exercise
Authenticity
Accountability Authority
Do I reflect the realityof people’s lives, and dothey believe I have their best interests at heart, even when we disagree?
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Sustaining Yourself
• What key phrases jumped out at you? Why those?
• What are the implications for how we work with community?
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Sustaining Yourself
• What do you make of this?
• How does it fit with having a commitment to the community?
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Benefits for Libraries & Library Professionals
• Repositioning libraries and library professionals as conveners and facilitators of community innovation and change
• Bringing new tools, skill development and learning opportunities that support enhanced capacity for community engagement
• Demonstrated results in communities to increase their ability to work effectively together on issues the community cares about
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Evaluation
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Join Us at These Related Programs• “Libraries Fostering Community Engagement Reception”A networking reception with library professionals working on community engagementTonight from 5-6 p.m., HRM – Hyde Park/CC 11A
• “Leading in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Ferguson (Mo.) Library Director Scott Bonner”
Sponsored by Libraries Transforming CommunitiesMonday from 1-2:30 p.m., W183C
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Keep the Conversation Going
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To be part of the conversation with other library professionals, go to ALA Connect (connect.ala.org) and join the Libraries Foster Community Engagement group.
Take the Tools Home!
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A Step-by-Step Guide to “Turning Outward” to Your Community
Digital and paper workbooks available on your way out.
Contact us or visit www.ala.org/LTC Mary Davis Fournier Deputy Director, Public Programs Office
American Library Association 312-280-5056 [email protected]
Cheryl Gorman Vice President of National Programs The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation 613-614-1213 [email protected]
Carlton Sears Certified Coach The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation 330-402-9149 [email protected]
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