Hello all I think I'm onto something very exciting but I need the wisdom of this group to help me, please.
I was recently asked to come up with a proposal for a community leadership progream in a semi-rural area of Australia. The program started as Leadership - but has evolved into something like 'building social capacity'. The purpose of the program is to develop in the community the skills and abilities to self-manage and lead community organisations - such as play groups, environmental action groups, parents associations etc etc. This is in response to a lot of community burn-out, lack of access to training etc. A key element of the program (which incidently will run for 12 months) is a project that participants implement in their own community, using and building on the skills they have learnt. I have proposed that OS underpin the program. Instead of a committee identifying the content of the program we have a one-day community OS where the partiocipants themselves explore what they need to build capacity in the community - and from that, hopefully, will emerge a corte group of people willing to take this further (using OS as a basis but also incorporating some specific skills training where its been identified as impirtant). I've said my role would be as a coach/mentor - opening spaces where appropriate and supporting the participants with specifics, support etc. Has anyone done anything like this before? I'd love to hear your insights. I've also heard that the sponsor (a Local Govt) thinks this approach wouldn't work in their community. I believe it will work, but do you have any suggestions on how I could approach their concerns. I have a meeting with the sponsor later this week to further discuss the proposal. Cheers Viv McWaters Viv McWaters Beyond the Edge Pty Ltd PO Box 665, Torquay 3228 Victoria Australia Ph/Fax: 61 3 5278 3864 "Thus the task is not so much to see what no-one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everyone sees." Schopenhauer * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== osl...@egroups.com To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed
