2024 ALP National Conference8/5/2024 - 8/8/2024
The Association of Leadership Programs is thrilled to partner with Leadership Rhode Island to bring the 2024 ALP National Conference to beautiful Providence, Rhode Island!
The 2024 National Conference will be held August 5 - 8; all information can be found here.
Location: Omni Providence Hotel
1 W Exchange St.
Providence, RI 02903
Join us in Providence!
Refund Policy:
Any registration canceled on or before April 30 is eligible for a 90% refund.
Cancelations received between May 1 and June 30 are eligible for a 75% refund.
Cancelations on or after July 1 will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
All refunds are issued via check, even if the initial payment was made by credit card.
1/1/2024 - 12/31/2024
Utilize this event to pay for your $300 CCLP Exam Fee.
4/22/2024
Join ALP for this Affinity Group during All Access April! A link to the zoom will be sent in advance of the session.
During All Access April, ALP programming is open to non-members. This is your opportunity to see what ALP is all about!
Location: Virtual Event
4/23/2024
Join Teresa DeFlitch, Director of Leadership Development at Leadership Rhode Island, for a fast-paced and fun deep dive into creative facilitation. Together we will explore what it means to be an authentic and vulnerable facilitator, able to bring out sincere interactions between not only program participants, but in other contexts, team or board members. In this interactive session, we will discuss and practice three concepts, including dynamic tensions, a creative facilitation lens to navigate complexity when differing perspectives surface; brainstretching, a practice of inserting brief but innovative prompts in your facilitation to provoke creative thinking; and test kitchen, an internal practice of prototyping and collaborating with others to advance your creative facilitation strategies. Not only will participants walk away with these three concepts to explore, but also next steps to deepen their understanding of facilitation as a creative practice.
Join us for this special 90-minute Leadership Connections! As part of All Access April, this program is open to all.
Location: Virtual Event - Zoom
5/16/2024
Are you a new member of ALP or a new team member within your Community Leadership Program? Join us for a one-hour deep dive into all that ALP has to offer. Meet members of the team, get connected with colleagues, learn about ALP programming, and how to navigate your members-only portal.
Location: Virtual Event - Zoom
5/20/2024
Achieving greater Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a complex process that requires change in various dimensions—policies, practices, attitudes, and behaviors. This session will address diversity, equity, and inclusion issues and topics; information will be presented focused on unconscious bias, cultural competencies, equity audits, and building allies to create and leverage diversity.
Course Objectives:
- Examine group norms and common vocabulary
- Explore cultural history
- Create awareness and identify unconscious bias
- Lens of Inclusion with examples of language and best practices
- Learn and discuss equity audit
Location: Virtual Event - Zoom
6/17/2024
Preparing to sit for the CCLP exam? We know many of you are working to complete your Mastery (pre-designated) and Elective coursework to take the CCLP Exam. To help you prepare for the exam, we now offer complimentary study groups to anyone who has completed the CORE and Mastery Sessions! The study groups will review the objectives and outcomes of each module, key takeaways, and exam expectations.
This session covers two Mastery courses: Finance, Accounting, Fundraising, and Other Revenue Strategies, and DEI
All study groups will be led by Jessie Baginski, CCLP, Director of Programs.
Location: Virtual Event - Zoom
6/24/2024
This four-hour course will help you understand the characteristics of adult learning and ensure your community leadership program curriculum is set up so that your participants truly learn.
Course Objectives:
- Understanding the difference between youth and adult learning
- Examining the principles of adult learning
- Evaluating your curriculum against the principles of adult learning
Location: Virtual Event - Zoom
7/15/2024
A key indicator of a successful community leadership program is its ability to identify, attract, and retain quality volunteer leaders. Examine leadership and succession programs through strategic volunteer development.
Course objectives:
- Developing volunteer leadership.
- Implementing successful strategies to recruit organizational leadership.
- Learning board best practices.
- Building a volunteer structure for future leaders to emerge and creating succession plans for key roles.
Location: Virtual Event - Zoom
7/29/2024
Preparing to sit for the CCLP exam? We know many of you are working to complete your Mastery (pre-designated) and Elective coursework to take the CCLP Exam. To help you prepare for the exam, we now offer complimentary study groups to anyone who has completed the CORE and Mastery Sessions! The study groups will review the objectives and outcomes of each module, key takeaways, and exam expectations.
This session covers two Mastery courses: Adult Learning and Managing Boards/Volunteers
All study groups will be led by Jessie Baginski, CCLP, Director of Programs.
Location: Virtual Event - Zoom
8/5/2024
Presented by Civity, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting community leaders who want to create a welcoming culture, this workshop will help them build 'social muscle' in their community, cultivating relationships of respect, empathy and trust across difference.
This workshop offers skills that leaders from various sectors can use to build social trust in their agencies and work by intentionally cultivating relationships of respect and empathy across differences. Civity scales culture change by partnering with established and emerging leaders in organizations and communities. Civity gives leaders permission, intentionality, and skills to bring this valuable relational element to what they do. When community leaders integrate civity into their work, they build social trust and relational infrastructure to make progress toward their specific goals: Relationality is the secret sauce that deepens and enhances what they are already doing.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Participants take away actionable strategies that bring cross-cutting social science research to real life. These strategies and skills can also easily be incorporated into existing gatherings. Because the workshop takeaways are centered on what people can do in their everyday lives,– the relationship- and trust-building continues long after the workshop ends.
WHO IT’S FOR
This course is open to all interested participants, even if you're not attending the full ALP National Conference.
Facilitators: Lucy Hancock and Malka Ranjana Kopell, Civity
Lucy Hancock is an entrepreneur, a coach, and a Civity trainer. At Civity, she trains leaders to intentionally build relationships in their workplaces, communities, and beyond. When we create authentic and positive person-to-person connections across difference, we transform our communities into places where everyone knows that they belong.
Malka Ranjana Kopell is Co-Founder and CEO of Civity. As a bi-racial (South Asian and white) girl growing up in a pre-tech Silicon Valley she learned early on how to find common ground with those who called out her difference. As the Valley grew wealthier, she noticed how many others less fortunate were – and are – being rendered invisible, and dedicated her life to try to create a community where everybody is seen and heard. In 1990 Malka founded the consulting nonprofit organization Community Focus to facilitate more effective implementation of public policies by increasing community participation. She also served as a program officer for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, developing and managing grants in the areas of conflict resolution and civic engagement, and was the founding managing director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University. Currently, in addition to Civity, Malka is a senior mediator/facilitator at California State University, Sacramento, where she works on a variety of issues ranging from groundwater management to addressing homelessness.. She has a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University.
Location: Omni Providence Hotel
1 W Exchange St
Providence, RI 02903
8/5/2024
The Federal Hill neighborhood of Providence is one of its hottest destinations, home to some of the best Italian food in the world. This tour will give you a smorgasbord of its best bites and drinks, from fine wines to housemade pasta. Come hungry!
The Hill was also home to some historic characters who dabbled on the wrong side of the law. Follow the intrigue of State v. Patriarca, when a future mayor took on a mob boss. Every guest will also get a memento from their time on the Hill to take home with them. Spoiler alert: it's delicious!
The Providence Tour Company is operated by Bradly VanDerStad, a 2014 graduate of College Leadership Rhode Island.
Time: 12:00 PM ET
Duration: 2 hours
Cost: $50
8/5/2024
With continuing conflict and division within organizations in the United States and the world, both/and thinking addresses big, complex issues without being overwhelmed. In this highly interactive workshop, participants will take a deep dive into the mechanics of polarity thinking so you can bring this strategic process back to your respective community leadership organization. Polarities are pairs of values, competencies, or strategic objectives that seem to oppose one another but are actually interdependent. Common leadership polarities are Accountability and Support, Individual and Team, Get the Job Done and Build Relationships, Continuity (Stability) and Transformation (Change), Justice and Mercy, Intent and Impact, and Direct and Empower. Also, polarity work supplements approaches to DEI and organizational strategic planning.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
You will become competent in identifying, mapping out, and leveraging common polarities in the community. You will
- See - Understand what polarities are and how they work. You will identify polarities that have the greatest impact on whether they achieve their preferred future;
- Map - Build polarity maps for each of the key polarities;
- Leverage - Identify those action steps and early warnings that will ensure that the polarity achieves desired results and sustains success;
- Examine how to integrate polarity thinking in various areas of your personal and professional life.
WHO IT’S FOR
This course is open to all interested participants, even if you're not attending the full ALP National Conference.
FACILITATOR
John Yeager, Founder | Yeager Leadership
John Yeager is the Program Director for Leadership Marshall County in Indiana. He is also the Founder and Chief Education Officer at The Yeager Leadership Group, where he consults with corporate, school, and athletic teams. He was an educator for over 40 years at the high school and college levels. John has a Doctorate in Education and a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology. He is the author/co-author of 4 books, including The Coaching Zone: Next Level Leadership in Sports.
Location: Omni Providence Hotel
1 W Exchange St
Providence, RI 02903
8/5/2024
Explore the Providence River, Riverwalk, Waterplace Park, the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier, and the Providence Industrial Harbor as your Providence River Boat Captain highlights historical, nautical, and architectural points of interest.
You can BYOB in your coolers or grab beverages from the Providence River Boat store to bring aboard. Food can also be brought aboard, but we suggest that you keep it simple.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Cost: $40
Departure Time: 11:00 AM ET
8/5/2024
Come discover urban Providence at your own pace as you paddle through the picturesque bridges, cobblestone walkways, and green riverbanks of the Providence and Woonasquatucket Rivers, Riverwalk, and Waterplace Park! Explore the Providence River via Kayak!
More details to come.
Duration: 75 Minutes
Cost: $40
Departure Time: ~12:00 PM ET
8/19/2024
Every program has fundamental principles it conveys as part of its curriculum. What theory best embodies what you are trying to teach? How can you create activities and adult learning practices that help your participants practice those theories? In this course, you will learn how to relate key learning to community leadership development responsibilities and describe the relationship between Servant Leadership and Community Leadership.
Course Objectives:
- Learn & discuss the most popular theories
- Learn sample activities and processes to help participants grasp and begin incorporating these theories
- Practice sharing theory fundamentals in meaningful adult learning model techniques
Location: Virtual Event - Zoom
9/16/2024
Beyond the basics. Learn the skills necessary to facilitate effective and powerful group discussions to help teams move past complex problems or controversial topics through dialogue, feedback, and consensus building.
Course Objectives:
- Learn what it takes to move past basic group conversations
- Recognize group dynamics, motivations, and audience feelings and how to manage
- Practice advanced facilitation techniques, including maintaining neutrality, building consensus, addressing resistance, handling problems such as hecklers, bullies, and other disruptive participants, and conquering fears during hard conversations
Location: Virtual Event - Zoom
9/30/2024
Preparing to sit for the CCLP exam? We know many of you are working to complete your Mastery (pre-designated) and Elective coursework to take the CCLP Exam. To help you prepare for the exam, we now offer complimentary study groups to anyone who has completed the CORE and Mastery Sessions! The study groups will review the objectives and outcomes of each module, key takeaways, and exam expectations.
This session covers two Mastery courses: Leadership Theories and Advanced Facilitation
All study groups will be led by Jessie Baginski, CCLP, Director of Programs.
Location: Virtual Event - Zoom