Learning Community: Course Description

Orientation with Reflections from Participants
Participants will develop and share a view of their own community which includes current issues, concerns, opportunities, and leadership.

Describe Communities and Agencies
Participants will develop strategies to recognize informal versus formal systems, themes versus issues, and the components of productive harmony.

Field Experience
Participants will use information gathered through community observation to identify community places, people, and behaviors.

Reflections on Field Experience
Participants will identify the informal and formal networks in their community and explore strategies to assess networks and use networks in their management systems.

The Seven Cultural Descriptors
Participants will identify "7 Cultural Descriptions" as gathered from field experience.

Integrated Resource Management
Participants will examine both the Discovery Process and Issue Management and determine the role each can play in creating successes.

Taking it Home: Developing your own Issue Management Plan
Participants will begin to develop an Issue Management Plan that will be of use back in their home office and community to integrate community and agency interests.

Celebration and Sharing

	Learning Community: Linking People, Place, and Perspective
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