{"id":125,"date":"2013-09-18T13:55:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T17:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2018-02-15T13:56:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T18:56:14","slug":"becoming-a-transformational-change-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/18\/becoming-a-transformational-change-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a Transformational Change Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this summer, I was lucky to be invited to participate in a\u00a0Whole Measures<\/span><\/a>\u00a0retreat at the\u00a0Center for Whole Communities<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(CWC) in Fayston, Vermont. The recurring retreat is a collaboration of the CWC and the\u00a0Interaction Institute for Social Change<\/span><\/a>, a Boston-based non-profit that builds capacity around issues of social justice and sustainability. Whole Measures is a framework co-developed by these organizations and used to transform communities \u201cby measuring what matters most.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the many new insights, powerful connections and restorative moments I experienced during the retreat, the framework for being a Transformational Change Agent struck me as one of the most useful and empowering tools I could bring to my work. In my field, I encounter passionate individuals and groups who are committed to transforming themselves, their communities and their world, and I support them in their development into new ways of being.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.\u201d<\/i>
\n-Bill O\u2019Brien<\/b><\/p>\n

Whole Measures offers: \u201cTransformational Change Agents create an inspirational environment for engaging their full communities by modeling three critically related attributes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ways of Seeing\/Knowing:<\/b>\u00a0See the big picture and the interconnections within the system, moves between the big picture to the details<\/p>\n

Ways of Doing:<\/b>\u00a0Convenes collaborative processes, connects stakeholders, balances structure and emergence, meets strategic objectives<\/p>\n

Ways of Being:<\/b>\u00a0Believes and models love as a force for change, reveals an authentic self, values service, recognizes and transforms power dynamics, acts as an agent of hope and possibility<\/p>\n

Which of these three realms is your strongest, and which is your growing edge? \u00a0Do you know any Transformational Change Agents who embody the qualities of all three?<\/p>\n

To learn more about Whole Measures and to download your own copy of the Whole Measures guidebook, visit the Resources page of the\u00a0website<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many thanks to Curtis Ogden, Mohamad Chakaki and Jeanette Abi-Nader for facilitating this powerful retreat, and to my co-participants for journeying on this path with me.<\/b><\/p>\n

This post was published first on September 18, 2013 on the\u00a0<\/i>Global Round Table Leadership Blog<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this summer, I was lucky to be invited to participate in a\u00a0Whole Measures\u00a0retreat at the\u00a0Center for Whole Communities\u00a0(CWC) in Fayston, Vermont. The recurring retreat is a collaboration of the CWC and the\u00a0Interaction Institute for Social Change, a Boston-based non-profit that builds capacity around issues of social justice and sustainability. Whole Measures is a framework co-developed by these organizations and used to transform communities \u201cby measuring what matters most.\u201d Among the many new insights, powerful connections and restorative moments I experienced during the retreat, the framework for being a Transformational Change Agent struck me as one of the most useful and empowering tools I could bring to my work. In my field, I encounter passionate individuals and groups who are committed to transforming themselves, their communities and their world, and I support them in their development into new ways of being. \u201cThe success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.\u201d -Bill O\u2019Brien Whole Measures offers: \u201cTransformational Change Agents create an inspirational environment for engaging their full communities by modeling three critically related attributes.\u201d Ways of Seeing\/Knowing:\u00a0See the big picture and the interconnections within the system, moves between the big picture to the details Ways of Doing:\u00a0Convenes collaborative processes, connects stakeholders, balances structure and emergence, meets strategic objectives Ways of Being:\u00a0Believes and models love as a force for change, reveals an authentic self, values service, recognizes and transforms power dynamics, acts as an agent of hope and possibility Which of these three realms is your strongest, and which is your growing edge? \u00a0Do you know any Transformational Change Agents who embody the qualities of all three? To learn more about Whole Measures and to download your own copy of the Whole Measures guidebook, visit the Resources page of the\u00a0website. Many thanks to Curtis Ogden, Mohamad Chakaki and Jeanette Abi-Nader for facilitating this powerful retreat, and to my co-participants for journeying on this path with me. This post was published first on September 18, 2013 on the\u00a0Global Round Table Leadership Blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}