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Welcome

Advanced Public Narrative

Four Narrative Leadership Challenges

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Leading Change Network

The Leading Change Network emerged from efforts to address three critical needs:

•Recruiting, training, and developing organizing leadership.

•Supporting systematic continual learning across the field.

•Creating greater capacity for organizing in key constituencies.

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Roles

ANA BABOVIC – TECH COORDINATOR JAKE WAXMAN – CHAT ROOM MONITOR

RAWAN ZEINE - TIMEKEEPER NISREEN HAJ AHMAD – LEARNING ROOM COORDINATOR

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Leadership

If I am not for myself, who will be for me?

If I am for myself alone, what am I?

If not now? When?

Rabbi Hillel 1st Century

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ACTION!

HOW WHY

Skills

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Leadership Definition

Accepting responsibility for enabling others to achieve purpose under conditions of uncertainty

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What is Public Narrative?

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Values

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Four Narrative Leadership Challenges

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Public Narrative and Loss

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Learning Narrative Strategy

1. Diagnose leadership challenge• Who is my ‘us’?• What’s the source of that challenge?• What stories are in play

2. Devise your strategic response• How to restore agency?• Sources of hope, empathy, self-worth (values)• How well does it work?

3. Draw the leadership lessons

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Debrief

1. Diagnose leadership challenge• Who is my ‘us’?• What is the source of

challenge?• What stories are in play

2. Devise your strategic response• How to restore agency?• Sources of hope, empathy, self-

worth (values)• How well does it work?

3. Draw the leadership lessons

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Key Learning

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Recommended Reading

• Dan P. McAdams and Philip J. Bowman, “Chapter 1: Narrating Life’s Turning Points: Redemption and Contamination,” Turns in the Road: Narrative Studies of Lives in Transition, (Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2001), (pp. 3-34). [32 pages]

• Francesca Polletta, “Ways of Knowing and Stories Worth Telling,” It Was Like A Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics, (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2006), (pp. 109-140). [32 pages]

• Kim Voss, “Claim Making and Framing of Defeats: Interpretations of Losses by British and American Labor Activists, 1886-1895”, Challenging Authority: the Historical Study of Contentious Politics, Michael Hanagan, Leslie Page Moch, and Wayne te Brake eds., (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), (pp. 136-148). [13 pages]