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Our Programs

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What does it mean to act for and from the whole?

How might our work be strengthened by paying attention to the whole as well as our own, specialized part of that whole?

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 programs, offered as fellowships to diverse leaders from around the country each year. They are grounded in systems-thinking and a new practice of leadership.

Whole Thinking Workshops are intensive, 2-day sessions that we offer to help strengthen the work of organizations, coalitions and communities through reflection and consideration of how their work relates to the whole. Download a brochure here.

Advanced Leadership Workshops support our alumni and others as change-agents within their own communities, coalitions and organizations.

Whole Measures outlines a process and evaluation system for redefining success in a broad, cross-cutting manner that links environmentalism and social justice

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.