Inter-Religious Organizing Initiative (IOI)
Leadership Team Strategic Training
Leadership Team Strategic Training
Inter-Religious Organizing Initiative (IOI)
Leadership Team Strategic Training Meeting
December 12 (12 noon Central Time), to December 13 (4 p.m.), 2007
American Baptist College – Nashville, TN
AGENDA
Wednesday, December 12
12 noon Welcome by Rev. Charles Mock, event chair
Introductions, Song and Lunch
1:00 p.m. Opening Prayer Bishop McCloud, AME
Reflection
Agenda and Focus of this Event Rev. Charles Mock
Logistics Partridge/Steele
1:30 p.m. Grounding CBCO in Faith: Telling Our Stories
Panel Presentation: Different stories of transformation: Personal transformation; building
the congregation, interfaith coalition, community, judicatory: Rev. Sue Engh (ELCA), Dr.
Forrest Harris (American Baptist College), Rev. Jim Eller (Unitarian Universalist), Rabbi
Shawn Zevit (Reconstructionist Judaism).
2:20 p.m Sharing Our Stories:
What is the story of my faith and CBCO that brought me here today? in pairs with 10 min
each.
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 IOI – history and mission Rev. Dennis Jacobsen
3:15 p.m. Congregation Based Community Organizing – Impact and Capacity
Dr. Paul Speer, Vanderbilt University
4:30 p.m. Training on One-to-Ones Rev. Sue Engh
5:30 p.m. Evening Worship
6:00 p.m. Dinner and One-to-Ones
7:00 p.m. Training on Self-interest
(identifying self-interests of participants in engaging their denominations/religious bodies in
CBCO; identifying self-interests of respective denominations/religious bodies and their
leadership) 3-4 training groups led by experienced organizing trainers, each with a mix of
participant religious bodies.
8:30 p.m. Transition
8:45 p.m. Closing the Day Rev. Mock
Logistics Steele/Partridge
Check-in Rev. Engh
Song/Prayer
Thursday, December 13
(breakfast on our own)
9:00 a.m. Song Rev. Ned Wight/Fred Seidl
Welcome to the Day Rev. Mock
Opening Prayer and Reflection Rev. Sinkford, UUA (invited)
Announcements Partridge/Steele
9:15 CBCO’s Power for Impact on Issues Gordon Whitman (invited)
Film on the SCHIP campaign with discussion on how this might have looked with an IOI
involvement
10:00 Training on Power and Power Analysis
(how might our denominations/religious bodies act more powerfully in the public arena?
How do we engage our denominations/religious bodies more powerfully?) Training groups
and trainers as in first training.
11:30 Break
11:45 a.m. Deeping our Capacity: some models Dave Beckwith
--ELCA Bishops Academy, Synodical trainings
--UUA CBCO team Susan Leslie
--American Baptist College curriculum
--Presbyterian Rev. Phil Tom
-- Jewish Community efforts
12:30 Lunch, with one-to-ones and open space/caucuses
1:15 Deepening our Capacity: strategies
(breakouts by religious bodies for strategic conversations on deepening engagement in
CBCO and capacity for public life leadership, evaluating where each is currently at, and what
needs to be done)
2:15 Transition time
2:30 Capacity into Action: Rev. Don Elmer
Reports from strategic conversations
3:30 p.m. IOI – Where Do We Go From Here?
3:45 p.m. Closing: Evaluation, Song, Prayer, Send-off
Leadership Team Strategic Training Meeting
December 12 (12 noon Central Time), to December 13 (4 p.m.), 2007
American Baptist College – Nashville, TN
AGENDA
Wednesday, December 12
12 noon Welcome by Rev. Charles Mock, event chair
Introductions, Song and Lunch
1:00 p.m. Opening Prayer Bishop McCloud, AME
Reflection
Agenda and Focus of this Event Rev. Charles Mock
Logistics Partridge/Steele
1:30 p.m. Grounding CBCO in Faith: Telling Our Stories
Panel Presentation: Different stories of transformation: Personal transformation; building
the congregation, interfaith coalition, community, judicatory: Rev. Sue Engh (ELCA), Dr.
Forrest Harris (American Baptist College), Rev. Jim Eller (Unitarian Universalist), Rabbi
Shawn Zevit (Reconstructionist Judaism).
2:20 p.m Sharing Our Stories:
What is the story of my faith and CBCO that brought me here today? in pairs with 10 min
each.
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 IOI – history and mission Rev. Dennis Jacobsen
3:15 p.m. Congregation Based Community Organizing – Impact and Capacity
Dr. Paul Speer, Vanderbilt University
4:30 p.m. Training on One-to-Ones Rev. Sue Engh
5:30 p.m. Evening Worship
6:00 p.m. Dinner and One-to-Ones
7:00 p.m. Training on Self-interest
(identifying self-interests of participants in engaging their denominations/religious bodies in
CBCO; identifying self-interests of respective denominations/religious bodies and their
leadership) 3-4 training groups led by experienced organizing trainers, each with a mix of
participant religious bodies.
8:30 p.m. Transition
8:45 p.m. Closing the Day Rev. Mock
Logistics Steele/Partridge
Check-in Rev. Engh
Song/Prayer
Thursday, December 13
(breakfast on our own)
9:00 a.m. Song Rev. Ned Wight/Fred Seidl
Welcome to the Day Rev. Mock
Opening Prayer and Reflection Rev. Sinkford, UUA (invited)
Announcements Partridge/Steele
9:15 CBCO’s Power for Impact on Issues Gordon Whitman (invited)
Film on the SCHIP campaign with discussion on how this might have looked with an IOI
involvement
10:00 Training on Power and Power Analysis
(how might our denominations/religious bodies act more powerfully in the public arena?
How do we engage our denominations/religious bodies more powerfully?) Training groups
and trainers as in first training.
11:30 Break
11:45 a.m. Deeping our Capacity: some models Dave Beckwith
--ELCA Bishops Academy, Synodical trainings
--UUA CBCO team Susan Leslie
--American Baptist College curriculum
--Presbyterian Rev. Phil Tom
-- Jewish Community efforts
12:30 Lunch, with one-to-ones and open space/caucuses
1:15 Deepening our Capacity: strategies
(breakouts by religious bodies for strategic conversations on deepening engagement in
CBCO and capacity for public life leadership, evaluating where each is currently at, and what
needs to be done)
2:15 Transition time
2:30 Capacity into Action: Rev. Don Elmer
Reports from strategic conversations
3:30 p.m. IOI – Where Do We Go From Here?
3:45 p.m. Closing: Evaluation, Song, Prayer, Send-off
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