Workshop in Participatory Leadership for Health and Human Service Redesign

An invitation to explore powerful practices that enable authentic engagement, build community,
and activate shared intelligence.

Today, more than ever, public servants, including those working in the state agencies, must learn how to engage diverse communities to co-create effective solutions. Join us for this workshop to experience, explore, and practice ways to lead human-centered service redesign that sparks systems change.

Through this 3-day workshop, the team of faculty and staff from the Evan’s Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC) at the University of Washington will engage leaders from Washington state’s health and human serving agencies in powerful tools that activate shared intelligence and build a community of practice. Our participatory leadership methodology, built and honed by practitioners around the world and aligned with research in organizational science and change, scales up from the personal to the systemic using personal practice, dialogue, design, and facilitation. During the workshop, participants will practice various participatory methods, and leave feeling more confident in their ability to use these approaches in a variety of work settings

Each participant will be encouraged to apply what they are learning in the workshop to meetings and projects before the final session. To support their leadership, each will receive a comprehensive workbook that provides a range of resources, tools, and practices that can be applied after the training. While it is more extensive than what can be covered in a 3-day offering, it becomes a trusted resource book for the work ahead. We invite a diversity of perspectives to create a vibrant learning space, which can then form the foundation for the longer-term community of practice.

Details:

Thursday, December 1, 2022
8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Friday, December 2, 2022
8:30 am – 3:00 pm
Monday, December 19, 2022
8:30 am – 4:30 pm

Our Team:

Dean Jodi Sandfort is an international expert in social policy implementation and a leading proponent of the application of design methods in systems improvement within public administration. She is the founder of the Future Services Institute at the University of Minnesota that has worked with counties, nonprofits and state government on a range of program innovations and interventions in human services. She has studied on-the-ground implementation in early childhood education, cash assistance, workforce development, and child welfare policy in numerous states.

Stephen Page joined the Evans School faculty in 1999. His research and teaching interests include leadership, management, collaboration, and strategy. Page’s publications explore these issues in the areas of education, health and human services, housing, and transportation. He consults regularly to local governments and nonprofit organizations, and previously worked as a research associate at the National Center for Children in Poverty at the Columbia University School of Public Health.

Keala Aronowitz is the Director of Innovation & Engagement at the Evans School. She has deep experience in event design and execution, community engagement, and partnership building. Her practice is rooted in convening conversations that center diverse voices and perspectives, focusing on outcomes that can motivate and guide action in response to public governance challenges.