Creating healthy and just communities in places that have experienced chronic marginalization requires tapping the wisdom of those same communities and inviting their participation. To draw out this wisdom often requires development of individuals, organizations, systems and policies. In this webinar we learned how the Community Learning Exchange spread community wisdom about collective leadership for community change to communities across the United States. The webinar leaders are co-founders of the national Community Learning Exchange. They have worked together for over a decade in building the capacity of communities to advance social change. Francisco Guajardo is Associate Professor at the University of Texas Pan American and Executive Director of the Llano Grande Center for Research and Development in Elsa, Texas, a community along the Texas Mexican border. Dale Nienow is Executive Director of the Center for Ethical Leadership in Seattle. Miguel Guajardo is Associate Professor at Texas State University-San Marcos. He grew up on the Texas-Mexican border and works on issues of leadership and community development, education and community leadership. Guajardo is also a co-founder of Llano Grande.

1. COMMUNITY LEARNING
EXCHANGE
A WEBINAR
JULY 2012

3. KELLOGG QUESTIONS
How can we cultivate leadership
that:
1. Stays in communities?
2. Crosses divisive boundaries?

4. KELLOGG LEADERSHIP FOR
COMMUNITY CHANGE
• Culture, identity and local story
used as assets for building
leadership
• Honor wisdom in all people

7. THEORY OF CHANGE

8. GRACIOUS
SPACE
ACTION STORYTELLING &
PLANNING STORYMAKING
UNDERSTANDING THE
SELF THROUGH
RELATIONSHIPS & IN
PLACE
ECOLOGICAL CROSSING
CONDITIONS BOUNDARIES
COLLECTIVE ASSETS
LEADERSHIP BASED

9. UNDERSTANDING
THE SELF
THROUGH
RELATIONSHIPS &
IN PLACE

13. CREATE
GRACIOUS SPACE

15. STORYTELLING &
STORY MAKING

17. CROSSING BOUNDARIES

20. ASSETS BASED
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT

23. COLLECTIVE
LEADERSHIP

25. UNDERSTANDING
MICRO & MACRO
ECOLOGICAL
CONDITIONS

28. ACTION PLANNING

30. COMMUNITY CHANGE
STORIES

36. RESOURCES
• www.communitylearningexchange
.org
• The Collective Leadership Story
book and Gracious Space
available at:
www.ethicalleadership.org