Women In Blue Jeans Conference 2009 Turning Your Small Town Around hosted by Joe Bartmann Interactive dialogue about the way rural communities can create a better future, and how you can lead the way.

1. Turning Your
Small Town Around
hosted by Joe Bartmann

2. there are
no experts
out there.

3. “the difference
between winners
and losers is
attitudes and
actions.”
-Dave Ramsey

4. you can only
change you.

5. your town
needs you
to be radical.

6. tools for
radical
leaders.

7. become a
not knower.

8. see the whole
iceberg.

9. U
problem
solution
co-creating
learning
change
to see
letting it come
-adapted from C. Otto Scharmer

10. don’t jump
the U.

11. turn it
outside in.

12. leaders
doers
watchers
uninterested

13. stewards
doers
contributors
fringe

14. help them do
their own
thing.

15. E = Dm
-adapted from C. Otto Scharmer

16. personal Energy
E = Dm

17. personal Energy
E = Dm
makes a Difference

18. matters to me
personal Energy
E = Dm
makes a Difference

19. matters to me
personal Energy
E = Dm
makes a Difference

20. host
conversations
that matter.

21. 1. write everything down.
2. listen with an open mind.
3. contribute what you can.

22. what behaviors
could we change
in my
community?

23. what can I do,
starting today?

24. 5 Tools for Radicals
• Become a not-knower.
• See the whole iceberg first.
• Turn it outside in.
• Help people do their own thing.
• Host conversations that matter. (start now)

25. Joe Bartmann
joe@RuralLearningCenter.org
ReimagineRural.com
www.slideshare.net/rurallearning