Notes from the Field: Joel Wright and Sarah Miller worked with Global Citizen Year Fellows on developing their authentic leadership styles during the GCY fall training institute…
Global Citizen Year (GCY) is an innovative new program that creates a “transformative bridge-year” experience for students between high school and college. Incorporating intensive training, an immersive international experience, and a domestic capstone project, GCY aims to empower American youth with the understanding that, across the globe, we are all connected. With this understanding comes empathy, a service ethic, and an important set of leadership skills including cross-cultural communication, innovative thinking, and a conviction to act.
We spent a thought-provoking day with this year’s inaugural set of GCY Fellows, deepening our self-awareness and understanding ourselves as authentic leaders. The content we covered included social identity, values, personality, and action planning. We chose these topics to empower Fellows to create their definition of authentic leadership, anticipate some of the challenges they would face in their new communities, and strategize methods for working through these challenges using their leadership strengths and networks of support. Alec Yeh captured some of his thoughts on the day here….Center for Creative Leadership
We also spent time thinking through the process of using images to create meaning-making and learningful conversations. Fellows created a Touchstone Collage as a way to synthesize their strengths and challenges as leaders, using their new self-knowledge from our discussions on personality preferences, values, and social identity. Here, you can see several Fellows explaining their Touchstone Collages…
Finally, Visual Explorer was one of the tools we explored; each Fellow left with a small deck to use as they engaged in their seven month service and cultural immersion experience.
Currently, CGY Fellows are living in host communities in Senegal and Guatemala. In this blog post, Ananda Day discusses how she used Visual Explorer to process her new surroundings and experiences….Metaphor My Life
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