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Winter Spring 2008 Events
Focus the Nation at Macalester
January 31, 2008
Recognition Convocation
April 22nd, 2008
Ongoing Programs
Mac Market
Emerging Leaders Program
Momentum Spring 2008
Captain's Council
Karlyn Kaus Wegmann
Program Coordinator
(651) 696-6156
leadership@macalester.edu
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Emerging Leaders Fall 2008
Welcome Class of 2012!
Application for ELP 2008
Momentum
Spring 2008
Join students, faculty & staff in the 4th Floor Lounge in Old Main for student led discussions and skill shares.
Sunday, April 6th, 2008:
6:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. Skillshare by Macalester Grant Writer, Helen Warren & Timothy Den Herder Thomas:
Grant Writing: Raising Money through Foundations
In traditional non-profit/ volunteer work, and in many projects as a student, you have to write grant proposals to foundations, and in many cases, other peojects will start that way too. How is this differnet from a personal scholarship, and how can you be sure to write the application successfully? This workshop will help you deal with the traditional barriers to early grant writing, and focus on strategies for how to do it well.
Sunday, April 13th, 2008:
6:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. Gallup
7:30 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. Skillshare by Timothy Den Herder Thomas: Personal Development & Career Building
If our action is going to make a difference, it has to be something you can sustain. How can you develop a personal strategy to make what you wnat to do the way you support yourself? Your action can give you future opportunities if you think startegically about what you do, how you do it, and how you weave it into your life. This workshop will be formatted as a discussion of strategies for uniting our lives around what we love, avoiding getting caught up doing things that we don't really want to be doing but "have" to, and building an awe-inspiring personal record.
9:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.
Sunday, April 20th, 2008:
6:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. Skillshare by Timothy Den Herder Thomas: Leadership Development, Non-hierarchical Organizing
Taking effective action means building a team that can sustain and escalate action over the long term, which means investing in helping others lead. How does one do so without making these people subordinate? In other words, how do we empower people to creatively express their capacities without simply training supporters for our own benefit? How do we create freedom? We'll explore traditional leadership development techniques, and the dramatically different power brought by non-heirarchical organizing.
7:30 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.
9:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.
Sunday, April 27th, 2008:
6:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. Skillshare by Timothy Den Herder Thomas:
Social Entrepreneurship: Self-Sustaining Organizing
We are used to thinking of making positive social change as acts of service, charity, and altruism. Volunteer and non-profit efforts tend to expend resources and act from a sense of 'ability to give' that is neither sustainable, nor accessible for most participants. Social entrepreneurship redefines the framework of social change by focusing on partnership and building collective resources through the process of change. In this workshop, we will discuss the process of building campaigns that grow themselves in terms of conceptual development, people involved, and financial and technical resources available. I will use a case study of CERF and the community efficiency project, but we will discuss the idea in general.
7:30 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.
9:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.
Sunday, May 4th, 2008:
6:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M.Skillshare by Timothy Den Herder Thomas: Systems-Based Movement Builiding: Generating Momentum
Unlike the previous workshops, which are meant to survive as stand-alone units, this workshop acts as a synthesis of the ideas of the series for those who have attended regularly. We will talk about strategic movement building that accepts and in fact embraces uncertainty and the broad shared nature of social movements - which cannot be controlled or directed. We will discuss the process of generating momentum, and thinking carefully about actions so that they lead to more and more actions, including those that others start and you do not control. We will end by focusing on the meaning of organizing with a systems approach.
7:30 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.
9:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.
Contact Karlyn at wegmann@macalester.edu to subscribe to the Momentum listserv & Moodle Course site.
Previous Sessions:
Sunday, March 9th, 2008:
6:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M.
Online Organizing: Harnessing the Power of the Internet with Timothy Den Herder Thomas
The internet serves as a powerful tool for networking and communication, as well as sharing ideas in easy-to-process and user-based ways. How can we organize ourselves using the internet, and how can we use free existing tools to build our efforts to a broader level. What is Internet 2.0 and how can we use it? We'll explore all of this through a hands on workshop focused on giving you the tools to make it work for you. It's hands on, so please bring your laptops!
7:30 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.
The Mac Weekly and beyond: Big Ideas in Small (or Not-So-Small) Publications with David Seitz
Conversation on using student and community fora as a resource.
The Twin Cities are home to an incredible proliferation of independent media institutions, many of which are remarkably accessible. What technical aspects of journalistic writing practice and process are important to know? More broadly, how can people of conscience use these fora to effectively build movements and conversations? How can student activists work with reporters and editors to build effective working relationships, and in turn to inform and grow community conversation?
9:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.
Book Discussion
Heider, John. (2006) The Tao of Leadership. Humanics Publishing Group.
Sunday, March 30th, 2008:
6:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. Skillshare by Timothy Den Herder Thomas: Attracting media and communicating with them
effectively and efficiently.
This workshop will give participants the ability to work with and gain access to media. We will discuss the changing face of media and where to target efforts, how to write and send press releases and relate to correspondents, and how to talk to media powerfully and effectively. Building good press relationships is quite a fine art, and it can make a lot happen once you get it right!
7:30 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. Discussion: Political Correctness at Macalester.
Join us in a discussion addressing Political Correctness at Macalester. Are we, as a community, hyper-sensitive to issues of political correctness? Whether you vote "yay" or "nay" please join us in sharing how the issue impacts YOU and how you feel/think it impacts the community as a whole. This is a space where "opps" are accepted and quite possibly even to be expected if we're willing to engage in a truly open discussion.
9:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M. Book Discussion: Cruical Conversations
Patterson, K., Grenny, J., McMillan, R., & Switzler, A. (2002). Crucial conversation; tools for talking when stakes are high. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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