Guiding Values
Priorities for communication during It Is In You events, workshops, or longterm-projects are three-part.
To produce knowledge and culture collaboratively
To understand and potentially change behavior contextually
To share tactics and strategies for reforming institutions, collectively
Creative Communication for Civic Change
Paying attention to luminaries and communities developed through admired partnering organizations, mentors, and collaborators—Marie orients It Is In You research and teaching across 3 priorities.
To generate more nuanced understandings of inequities and social, economic, policy, and institutional dysfunctions that shape our local communities and their global contexts
To identify and support community-generated insights from among affected groups
To mobilize unique resources for intervention devoted to:
organizing through the lens of individuals' and communities’ lived dignity, knowledges, and social/cultural assets
claiming and restoring rights in policy and/or practice
revealing and seeking to transform oppressive systems of exclusion, occurring by calculation or by “default”
activating creative communication, to include oral history and storytelling, arts and performance-based programming to reflect and potentially change cultures of knowing, being, believing, and doing
Sample Workshop Principles:
“Cultivating Communication Skills for Leaders”
Team and Skills-Building Workshop for staff and academic advisory leaders with 90, 75, and 60 minute formats, optional follow-up evaluation and refresher resource guide
This workshop will train participants in practical communication techniques, creatively implemented to
Center — connect to leadership priorities, manage and relieve stress
Clarify — discern barriers to goals, identify team assets to amplify
Create — make and collaborate with integrity and energy
Activate — enliven mission, partnerships, and growth with purpose
Our Workshop Themes Include:
Leadership and Team Building
Learn and practice memorable techniques to strengthen interpersonal communication
Promote ease in team decision-making
Cultivate shared ownership of project priorities
Affirm and Discern for Growth
Appreciative Inquiry facilitation—discern core principles of what’s already working well for EAP leaders
Practice communication techniques to invest in strengths
Communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders—e.g., government, private sector, community leaders
Face Challenges with Clarity
Discern communication gaps that undergird 3 group-identified barriers to implementing EAP vision
Learn and practice immediate stress management techniques to promote problem solving, resilience, creative and strategic thinking
Why do we do what we do? Connecting what matters to how we show up as EAP leaders