Mass in Motion Action Institute
April 3, 2013
Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade Center
181 Boston Post Road West, Marlborough, MA

Featuring

Geoffrey Anderson, President and CEO of Smart Growth America

Dr. Peter Senge, Founing Chair, Society of Organizational Learning

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(registration extended to 3/27/13 at 12pm)

Join us to:

• Strengthen your multi-sector teams to work on systems and environmental change approaches
• Increase regional and statewide networking
• Increase your awareness of MiM strategies taking place in Massachusetts through peer-to-peer learning

 

 

*Agenda:

Agenda

8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Networking Breakfast

9:00 – 9:30 Welcome and Mass in Motion Overview

9:30 – 10:30 Keynote - Change Agents for Transformative Community Change through Collaboration

Gain new insight into authentic leadership and how to facilitate change in your community systems and spheres of influence through collaboration.

Objectives: 

• Understand how to build and lead leaders through partnership development and authentic leadership.
• Identify examples of adaptive leadership and transformative change through multi-sector partnership development.

10:30 – 10:40 Stretch Break

10:40 – 12:00 Leading Leaders: Building Leaders through Partnership Development

Go beyond networks and stakeholders to lasting partners. Build skills and develop strategies for engagement and partnership development. 

Objectives: 

• Discuss and identify strategies for partnership development and community engagement
• Engage in team discussion and action planning for partnership development

12:00 – 12:45 Lunch with optional networking

12:45 – 1:45 Keynote – Building Healthy Communities through Planning and Design

Explore complete streets policy and how to implement policy into concrete change, featuring the President and CEO of Smart Growth America, Geoffrey Anderson.

Objectives: 

• Understand the benefits of complete streets
• Identify complete streets policy development and implementation best practices
• Describe complete streets stakeholder engagement best practices

1:50 – 2:50 Workshops Session 1 (Choose A, B, C, or D)

Workshop A – Place Making Essentials: Parks and Open Spaces

Discover how to go from vision to reality in developing parks and open space.

Objectives: 

• Identify best practices for community engagement for developing parks and open spaces.
• Describe MiM examples of successful processes for developing parks and open spaces.

Workshop B -- Connected Communities: Resources, Tools, and Best Practices

New legislation, mapping tools, and resources that can help communities 

Objectives: 

• Understand the Walkshed analysis for school commutes
• Understand rural nuances and the Rural Toolkit
• Identify best practices for community engagement
• Describe MiM examples of successful processes for developing and implementing pedestrian/ bike paths.

Workshop C -- Corner Stores and Farmer’s Market’s: Healthy and Farm Fresh

Boost your knowledge and skills in developing, expanding, and sustaining healthy corner stores and farmer’s markets.

Objectives: 

• Share best practices on healthy markets and farmers markets
• Identify tools and strategies to overcome barriers
• Identify stakeholder and community engagement best practices

Workshop D -- Implementing School Nutrition Regulations with School Wellness Committees

Explore options for school nutrition regulations implementation and how leverage school wellness committees for success.

Objectives: 

• Describe strategies from successful communities, including what helped move their initiatives forward and what challenges are inherent in this work, and apply them locally.
• Identify tools/resources to assist participants in supporting school districts and wellness committees in the implementation of the regulations.

2:50 – 3:00           Walk Break

3:00 – 4:00           Workshops Session 2 --repeat from session 1 (Choose A, B, C, or D)

Workshop A -- Place Making Essentials: Parks and Open Spaces

Workshop B -- Connected Communities: Resources, Tools, and Best Practices

Workshop C -- Corner Stores and Farmer’s Market’s: Healthy and Farm Fresh

Workshop D -- Implementing School Nutrition Regulations with School Wellness Committees

*Agenda subject to change based on availability of speakers

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