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Kickstarting Your Program How to Roll Out A Great Idea into a Broad-Based Community-Supported Program

Come Alive Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come What inspires you? alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs Tell the story. is people who have come alive. —Howard Thurman

Activate Indra’s Net “I can’t do this alone. I need help.” One small step each day. Engage in enquiry: — Does our community need this? — What part can you do to help? — Who else do you know who would like to help? — Move on to others when someone is hesitant.

Engage with Chaos Look for the Trim Tab Factor. Allow for self-organization to harness the power of chaos. Seek the Tipping Point. Identify the Keystone Species.

The Trim Tab Project The small effort that catalyzes big change. • Tends to create new systems that allow the current system to surpass itself • Is not leader-dependent • Tends to revise the nature and purpose of a system • Can be scaled up or down to meet need. Trim tabs involve the skillful orchestration of three other factors: • Chaos • Tipping Points • Keystone Species

Utilize Chaos Power What is chaos? — It is not messy happenstance. — “It is an underlying interconnectedness that exists in apparently random events. Chaos science focuses on hidden patterns, nuance, the ‘sensitivity’ of things, and the ‘rules’ for how the unpredictable leads to the new.” — Nature uses chaos to create.

Lessons of Chaos Theory Lesson One: Create Engage with chaos to find imaginative new solutions and live more dynamically. FUND RAISING

Lesson Two: Use Butterfly Power Let chaos grow local efforts into global results. STRATEGIC PARTNERS

Lesson Three: Go with the Flow Use chaos to work collectively with others. SELF ORGANIZATION

Lesson Four: Explore What’s Between Discover life’s rich subtleties and avoid the traps of stereotypes. PEOPLE’S HIDDEN GIFTS

Lesson Five: See the Art of the World Appreciate the beauty of life’s chaos. EXPRESS GRATITUDE FIVE TIMES A DAY

Lesson Six: Live Within Time Utilize time’s hidden depths. STRETCH IT / CONTRACT IT

Lesson Seven: Rejoin the Whole Realize our fractal connectedness to each other and the world. INDRA’S NET Seven Life Lessons of Chaos , John Briggs and F David Peat

Tipping Points People may work hard for years without making much of a difference, and then suddenly one action at just the right moment seems to set off a large ripple effect that even affects other systems: a tipping point has been reached.

Keystone Species A species whose very presence contributes to a diversity of life forms and whose extinction would consequently lead to the extinction of many other forms of life. Keystone species play a special role in their ecosystems. For example, prairie dogs create a network of tunnels and thereby support more than 200 other species of animals and keep the plant life of the prairie healthy as well. Just like architectural keystones, the prairie dogs are ecological keystones necessary to support the prairie as a whole.

Features of Trim Tabs 1. View your Project from a Higher Level 2. Bring a Reflective Consciousness into the Project 3. Re-vision the Nature and Purpose of Your Work 4. Seek to Create Self-Sustaining Systems 5. Become Sensitive to Timing 6. Embody Keystone Properties 7. Become Scalable and Transportable -Adapted from The Seven Brothers: A Workbook for Social Artistry Leadership

Incorporate Community Development Principles — Delimit geography — Include all issues/people — Attend to depth human issues, the spirit issues — Symbol is key — Institute of Cultural Affairs

Tend to Depth Human Issues Y / P R H O Y S S N I C E A S L G I C A O L / L H O I S H T C O Y R S I / S P C Y M I C H B T A Y O L M L I C / E I N V T E I T G I R N A U L The Four Levels of the Psyche

Symbol is Key — Make a logo that informs and inspires you and everyone else for years to come — Create professional-looking fliers and a website — Do a ceremonial launch — Start with a pilot program – get more stories.

Ceremonial Launch

Start with a Pilot Program

Tell the Stories

Circle Up — Begin with centering that honors the deeper agenda. — Check in / Agenda of work — Share leadership of the meeting: facilitation, time-keeping, vibes watching. — Work in circle: confidentiality, build on strengths, give and get feedback and practical help, gain support for creative intention, talk straight, nurture possibility. — Summarize next steps/when and where to meet. — Clear the air: voice unresolved questions, needs, feelings — End with voicing gratitude, recognition and joy. www.CirclesWork.net

Focus on the Essentials — Avoid giving people job titles as long as possible. — Look for who emerges offering the skills needed for various jobs. — Keep things fluid and moving, engaging others, with the essential outcome providing the organizing of things. — Pick the one thing you do best, then let others do the rest, putting yourself out of a job as much as possible.

Share Leadership Leadership from Within Shadow form: Domination of others, not This is the foundation, the starting point listening, not collaborating, for every other form of leadership. disempowering others, not knowing when Strongly related to self-knowledge, self- to sit down. expression, and integrity. Leadership from Behind Characteristics: Connected to inner self and integrity. I show up full, fully aligned, Characteristics: Responsibly empowering making the choice at every moment to be the “Leader from the Front to succeed, my best self. supporting, offering help, engaged in looking for ways to help. Shadow form: The ego-based self, seeking aggrandizement or avoiding what is see as Shadow form: Abdication of their own rish or danger, at the expense of integrity power & self-expression, not expressing and self-expression. self, allowing the leader to founder or fail, passive-aggressive behavior, “not my responsibility,” co-dependency. Leadership from Front Characteristics: This is “leadership from the front of the room,” leading others—the dominant model in our western culture. Has a vision of where we’re going, mapping the trail. “I have a plan—follow me.”

Leadership from Beside NOTE: Everyone is always playing one or more of Characteristics: Co-piloting, truly collaborative these leadership roles, in either its positive or shadow leadership, offering clear communication and form. accepting co-responsibility, partnership, sharing leadership. Not: adopting this “shared How to work with these models/roles leadership” model is often seen as the panacea constructively: for groups and communities, trying to avoid • Notice and become conscious of the what is seen as hierarchy or without having a leadership role we and others are playing at clearly-dominated leader from the front—but it any one time. isn’t a panacea. • Notice when a certain type of leadership is missing, and naming or addressing it. Shadow form: Co-dependency, co-leading in a • Notice the role(s) we are most comfortable way that is only negative or drains energy or with. “stops” action, identifying only problems in a • Learn to be more comfortable with playing disempowering way. each of these roles well without falling into the shadow of any of them. Leadership from Field • Learn to choose the right role to play at any Characteristics: Accessing information from the moment in time, and field and bringing it back to the organization, • Learn to support the role of other leaders in providing the larger context, the big picture. our team from our leadership positions “It’s worth noticing that. . . .” putting things in a knowing that every position in our team is a broader perspective. leadership position. Shadow form : Always bringing an overwhelming bigger context or unresolvable questions. “It’s all too overwhelming” or irresponsible use of the information, bringing in too many “considerations” or different viewpoints.

Brainstorm What It Takes 30” Flip CHART and markers Funding plan for meeting budgeted cost: in- kind, cash gifts Qualified and trained horse Pilot program costs Qualified TR Instructor Grants and crowd funding 3 trained volunteers for side walking and leading plus backups for absences Fiscal agent for tax deductible gifts Arena in quiet setting Non profit structure for future? Equipment Separate bank account Liability insurance Outreach plan for community support: newspapers, TV, radio, local web networks, support groups, physicians PATH Intl program membership Schedule volunteer training and prepare Staff fees materials.

Put Yourself Out of a Job HANDS ON: BEHIND THE SCENES: — — Side Walkers Client Finder/Strategic Partners in the Medical World Horse Leaders Public Awareness Volunteer Coordinator Funding Management Volunteer Trainer Grant Finders Horse Caretaker and Trainer Grant Writers Therapeutic Riding Instructor Crowd Funding Campaign managers Cultivation of donors