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Transforming Power and Privilege: A 21ST CENTURY LEADERSHIP COMPETENCY
Leadership Learning Community Leadership Webinar Series February 27, 2013
Renato P. Almanzor, PhD Director of Programs, LeaderSpring
[email protected] (510) 286-8949
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
What are the necessary leadership competencies for transforming power and privilege?
What are the conditions necessary to develop
these competencies in the context of leadership development programming?
• Introduction and overview
• LeaderSpring’s philosophy on leadership development
• Competence: Transforming power and privilege
• Knowledge: Vision for well-being • Skills: Altering arrangements • Capacity: Agency • Will: Purpose
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AGENDA
Heart and Head: An integrated, holistic approach to leadership development. LeaderSpring’s learning communities of practice blend rigorous standards of performance; reflective learning; trusting relationships; and personal renewal.
Collaboration: Integrating services and leveraging resources toward a common goal. LeaderSpring fosters agency collaborations toward transformative impact in community.
Equity: The elimination of racial, economic, and social disparities. LeaderSpring strengthens social sector leaders and organizations committed to fostering equity in their communities.
Community well-being: A balanced satisfaction of personal, interpersonal and collective needs. LeaderSpring helps leaders strengthen skills and relationships so they may create something more meaningful and larger than the sum of their parts.
Our dream is that leaders, organizations and communities in the social sector achieve their promise and potential to create a healthy and equitable society.
LeaderSpring fosters a powerful, equity-driven social sector by:
➤ Strengthening leaders and organizations, ➤ Developing communities of leaders, and ➤ Transforming the systems in which they work.
Leadership: Taking responsibility for what matters. Leadership is an on-going practice at all levels of an organization and community, transcending title or position. LeaderSpring trains emerging, mid-career and senior leaders, and helps them foster leadership in others.
VISION
MISSION
VALUES
↘ Leader
Network
Transforming Systems
Consulting Group
Fellowship Program
PROGRAMS
Community isn’t always synonymous with warmth and harmony. Politeness is often a veneer for understanding, when in reality it masks uncovered territory, the unspeakable pit that we turn from because we know the pain and anger that can dwell there. It is important to remind ourselves that real community is forged out of struggle. This is the crucible from which a real community grows.
--Linda Christensen
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Leadership Development through Cohort Development
Will • Purpose • Principles • Curiosity/Honoring
MEANING
ACTION THOUGHT ALIGNMENT
Knowledge • Theories • Frameworks • Processes (e.g., change)
Skills • Intellectual rigor • Behavioral discipline • Emotional intelligence
Adapted from “Success Built to Last” by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson
Capacity • Readiness • Time • Resources
COMPETENCE
• Knowledge: Vision for well-being – Power – Well-being
• Skills: Altering arrangements – Systems thinking and analysis – Designing social change
• Capacity: Resolve with personal agency – “A part of, not apart from…” – Confidence and courage
• Will: To actively engage with power and love – Personal, relational and collective purpose
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COMPETENCE: TRANSFORMING POWER AND PRIVILEGE
Adapted from Doing Psychology Critically by Isaac Prilleltensky & Geoff Nelson
OPPRESSION
LIBERATION
Power
WELL-BEING
Knowledge: Vision for well-being Power
Well-being: the balanced and simultaneous satisfaction of personal, relational and collective needs.
KNOWLEDGE: VISION FOR WELL-BEING
Values, Resources, Programmes, Policies
Adapted from Doing Psychology Critically by Isaac Prilleltensky & Geoff Nelson
The system is perfectly designed to produce the results it is now producing.
SKILLS: ALTERING ARRANGEMENTS SYSTEMS THINKING AND ANALYSIS
Adapted from john powell
SKILLS: ALTERING ARRANGEMENTS
Enhancing Well-Being
Studying Social Justice
Designing Social Change
Adapted from Social Justice: Theories, issues and movements by Loretta Capeheart and Dragan Milovanovic
Adapted from Playbook for Progressives by Eric Mann
SKILLS: ALTERING ARRANGEMENTS ROLES AND QUALITIES
Roles
Qualities
Group builder
Builds a base and never walks alone
Strategist
A good investigator
Tactician
Tactically agile: masters the decision of the moment
Political educator
Reflective practitioner
Builder of shared experience
Courageous and self-sustaining
• Personal, political and professional “story line”
• Passion and Humility
• Confidence and Courage – Vulnerability
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CAPACITY Resolve with personal agency
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Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy -- the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. -- Brené Brown
CAPACITY
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WILL TO ACTIVELY ENGAGE WITH POWER AND LOVE
Power • The drive of everything living to
realize itself, with increasing intensity and extensity.
Love • The drive towards the unity of
the separated.
Adapted from Love, Power and Justice: Ontological analyses and ethical applications, by Paul Tillich
WILL: PURPOSE