IFS 2023 Sessions Proposals

Please indicate the kind of session you are proposing (check box that applies)

Call for Posters: During the presummit in-person Networking Reception, Summit attendees will have the opportunity to present posters summarizing their research, projects, etc., both independently and with colleagues. An informal space will allow our fellow attendees to move through poster presentations at their leisure and connect on similar interests and expertise. Breakout Discussion: In a breakout session, several presenters share different perspectives about the same topic. Then the panelists take questions from the audience. To suggest a breakout session, you can nominate other speakers to participate on the panel with you, or we can help identify who would be a good fit. Workshop: In a workshop, one or more facilitators lead a hands-on training session to build foundational skills. You can propose a workshop that you would like to lead or a workshop that you would organize with others. Community Building: If you have an idea for how the summit can facilitate community building, wellness, or resilience, submit a proposal to lead a community building activity. The activity can last 5 minutes or up to an hour. Lightening Talk: In a lighting talk, you’ll have 5–10 minutes and 20 slides to present on a critical topic. This is a chance to inspire, challenge, and engage your colleagues. with the Summit by leading a five to ten minute Lightning Talk. That’s five to ten minutes to inspire, challenge, and engage your fellow attendees! Launchpad: Have you developed a new method, tool, or curriculum you want to pilot? A launchpad session is a chance to test a new idea with summit participants. Other: Don’t see your ideal session format here? Suggest a different type of session.

Other:

Please indicate the track that your session most closely aligns with:

Sustaining Equitable Networks: Determining what works, and what does not towards a strong dynamic fellowship network. Sessions can include: Approaches and best practices for building and sustaining active and equitable alumni networks, understanding how recent program adaptations have affected fellowship goals, the building and strengthening of networks, alumni engagement, and how data on adaptations is informing network development, approaches and best practices for incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion into the bedrock of fellowship networks, recognizing that how DEI is understood and unpacked can differ by geography or other identity factors, promoting a culture of alumni wellness and resilience that ripples across a network, and examples of different kinds of alumni networks and how to determine the best approach for your fellowship alumni. Getting to Positive Change: Supporting fellowship alumni to put their knowledge, skills, and learnings into action. Sessions can focus on: Effective strategies and approaches for how fellowships and alumni engagement contribute to positive societal change, learnings from impact evaluations or other research that identify best practices that position alumni to contribute to the drivers of change, using effective developmental or traditional evaluation tools and approaches to better measure and learn from the short and long-term impact of fellowship programming, particularly on what works in supporting fellowship alumni to take action, adapting existing approaches that will increase and strengthen connections and collaboration between alumni and across fellowship programs that supports systems change, and strengthening alumni connections to their communities that model the values-based, inclusive, and equitable interactions and opportunities we seek to achieve at all levels of society.

Please indicate which Learning Path your session most aligns with:

Learning for me: Learning that informs attendees’ personal practice for professional growth and well-being. Sessions in this pathway will provide attendees with knowledge, approaches, methods, skills, and tools for personal and professional growth, wellness, and resilience. Learning for us (our team or organization): Learning that informs attendees’ practice as a member of an organization or team. Sessions in this pathway will support attendees with knowledge, approaches, methods, skills, and tools that they can bring back to their teams or organizations to support better fellowship implementation. Learning for them: Learning, proving, or demonstrating something for an outside audience such as fellows or alumni. Sessions in this pathway will introduce or deepen knowledge about approaches, methods, tools, resources, or platforms that fellows, alumni, and other stakeholders can directly benefit from as they participate in their fellowship, or alumni networks, or utilize in their own work.

We will categorize all summit sessions by learning pathway (and technical track) to help attendees meet their personal and professional learning goals while attending the summit.

Give a brief summary of the session that you would like to lead. If you selected Lightening Talk, please provide a brief summary of the issue or question that you would like to feature in your Lightning Talk:

Explain how this session aligns with one (or more) of the key Technical Tracks of the 2023 Summit (see technical tracks listed above)?

What do you hope to achieve through this session?

If you selected Community Building, how will this activity result in more collaboration, sharing, and/or community among Summit attendees? How does it contribute to resilience?*

If you selected Lightening Talk, why is this issue important to you or your organization?*

How might this topic or issue be relevant to other leaders or managers of fellowship or leadership development programs?*

What is the ideal length for this session? Most session blocks will be 45 minutes to 1.5 hours. Lightening Talks can be between 5-15 minutes.

What is the ideal size of the audience for this session?

Under 20 20 - 50 50 - 100 100 and above

What resources will participants have access to from your session? (i.e. session slide deck, tools/templates, articles, or other resource documents that we can make available on the Platform or provide afterward)

Are you looking for co-facilitators for your session? Have you already identified other facilitators to lead this session with you? If so, who are they? If not, what types of practitioners or individuals are you looking for, and perhaps we can help you identify co-presenters.

Are you open to being grouped with another presenter who proposed a similar topic to co-lead the session?

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