Our Programs
All of Center for Whole Communities’ programs bring together diverse leaders from multiple disciplines, helping them to explore differences, to imagine their community whole, and to fully understand that their success is bound up in the success of others. What emerges from our work is stronger leadership, bolder, visioning and more systemic change. We go about this in several ways:
Whole Thinking Retreats are six-day residential leadership development programs, offered as fellowships to diverse leaders from around the country each year. Whole Thinking Workshops are intensive, shorter sessions that we offer to individual leaders, organizations, coalitions and communities to help them explore how their work relates to broad concepts of social change.
Advanced Leadership Workshops support our alumni and others as change-agents within their own communities, coalitions and organizations. Workshops we offer regularly, both as open workshops for individuals and as custom-designed workshops for organizations and communities, are described in more detail here.
2042 Today is a new training initiative for emerging conservation leaders, in collaboration with the Center for Diversity and the Environment.
Whole Measures outlines a process and evaluation system for redefining success in a broad, cross-cutting manner that links environmentalism and social justice. Whole Measures Workshops give leaders concrete skills in implementing Whole Measures.
Valley Futures Network is a program we launched around civic engagement within the four communities of the the Mad River Valley watershed. It is now operating independently, though we are still instrumental in helping with funding and facilitation.