How do you create community?

Day 1 of my sustainability leadership training had a big focus on how to create an intentional learning community. Thought you might be interested a few things we did.

For introductions, we picked a photo and shared why we chose it and how we were feeling "right now" about starting the program.

We did a public needs/ strengths assessment with dots.

We created our group agreement and identified the different roles of people in the group. The list ended up being a little long ( my impression) but the process of creating it may be what was most important. Since this group will be together a year..there was a very thoughtful process of getting to know each other and talking about how we want to work together and our expectations or ourselves and each other. Top take away- we - as a group- are already sharing responsibility for what we want this experience to be.