Leadership for a Living Landscape
The Taproot Seminar Series is kicking off November 13-19 with a six-day
intensive leadership seminar at Georgia O’Keefe’s former home in Santa Fe,
New Mexico. Multi-functional Agriculture: Leadership for a Living Landscape
is the focus of the first of six seminars. The Learning Communities
Project, funded primarily by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is sponsoring the
seminar series.
Participants are being solicited from farm groups, land trust groups,
conservation organizations, rural planning initiatives, rural development
agencies, water quality projects, extension services and environmental
groups. The most important characteristic of participants, however, is that
they seek to go on an adventure -- to stretch their perspectives, to expand
their way of thinking and to open to discoveries about themselves.
The seminar will blend learning about effective strategies with awareness
about how our inner worlds drive our work. Participants will map the
system within which they work, uncover mental models, deepen theories of
leadership for social change, analyze conflict styles and management,
increase skills of building healthy teams and develop strategies for shared
visions, policy development, issue framing and creative communications. The
group will learn about the concept and practice of multi-functional
agriculture in Europe and different parts of the U.S. as a way to increase
the involvement of multiple stakeholders in the future of agriculture.
The concept of multi-functional agriculture implies that in addition to food
and fiber, farms produce many of the public goods desired by society. These
public goods include rural development, tourism attractions, food with
regional distinctiveness, wildlife habitat and clean water. Stakeholders
working in these various arenas need opportunities to discuss their common
interests, to create shared visions and to develop common strategies which
ultimately can lead to a healthier future for agriculture.
Future seminars will focus on the World Trade Organization; connections
among agriculture, diet and health; watershed organizing; alternative models
of rural community organizing; and regional labels, green marketing and
rural development.
Leaders of the Learning Communities Project are Carol Anderson, Hal
Hamilton, Mark Ritchie, Barbara Rusmore and Vicki Van Zee.
For a full program description and application, contact Jeneene Spencer at
606-986-5336 or jspencer@centerss.org. Visit the web site at
www.centerss.org.
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