Global Leaders Workshop: Putting Leadership into Action Locally and Globally
Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:30am – 4:00pm
The Global Leaders Workshop is designed for international and U.S. domestic students currently enrolled in the Maricopa Colleges. The event aims to leverage students’ interests and experiences to promote service leadership, cross-cultural communication and global citizenship and to create networks of support that will contribute towards community service engagement locally and globally.
WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS
Participating students will have opportunity to:
- Play the Global Simulation Game (a modernized version of Buckminster Fuller's World Game™) where players work together to set immediate and long-term goals, balance the demands of cooperation and competition, and create a world that reflects their own beliefs and visions-- all while competing against the clock to resolve urgent global problems.
- Learn what a New Global Citizen is, and how a New Global Citizen thinks, acts and feels.
- Engage in activities designed to catapult you into action to embrace leadership through service.
- Network with like-minded students from across the Maricopa district and contemplate how YOU can be the change you want to see in the world!
- Hear heartwarming stories of youth leaders who are making a difference on the world scene. The next stories could be YOURS!!
ABOUT THE GLOBAL SIMULATION GAME
International Relations; Culture; Economics; Ethics; Political Science; Media; Geography; History. These elements form the foundation of the Global Simulation Workshop, a live-action game that will challenge you to become the world’s most powerful political, corporate and social leaders.
As the future leaders of today's dynamic and unpredictable world, it is important for you, as students, to broaden your global perspective. Through experience-based learning, the Global Simulation Workshop will help you put "big picture" thinking into context by confronting you with the reality of how your decisions ultimately affect the future of your world. A post-game discussion will help you think about your actions and translate your insights into real-world terms.
The Global Simulation puts participants into the roles of global leaders who must use creativity and integrated thinking to find individual and communal success in a complex environment. Each person and group forms a small part of the picture; together you will create a team, a company, an institution, a nation, the world. Understanding how these smaller units influence and interact with one another promotes development and innovation at all levels.
For more information on the Global Simulation Game visit: http://www.osearth.com/flashmovie.shtml
NEW GLOBAL CITIZENS – Mobilizing a Generation to Take Local Action for Global Change
New Global Citizens (NGC) believes that young people are uniquely poised to tackle our most pressing global issues. Their program provides youth with a global perspective, an opportunity to create change, and the tools to act on their passion to make a difference. New Global Citizens envisions that all youth have the opportunity to become engaged global citizens who embrace their critical role as leaders, philanthropists, and change agents.
The New Global Citizens Compass:
- Youth Centered: We believe in the capacity, energy, passion, and innovation of youth.
- Collaboration: We harness the power of networks.
- Community: We trust in grassroots, locally led solutions.
- Diversity: We unite diverse perspectives, experiences, and people.
- Integrity: We operate in an honest, socially conscious, and ethical manner.
- Leadership: We have the courage to shape a better world.
- Our call to action directly informs both why and how we engage youth in sustainable global change.
NEW GLOBAL CITIZENS TEAMS – GLOBAL PROJECTS
Participants at the Global Leaders Workshop will have opportunity to learn about (and if interested join) a New Global Citizens Team. NGC Teams engage in global issues and work to support community based change in communities around the word. Teams specifically focus on the challenges addressed in the eight UN Millennium Development Goals (extreme poverty, universal primary education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, HIV/AIDS and other diseases, environmental sustainability, and sustainable local economies) and two additional challenges of great importance: (natural disasters and armed conflict).
These Issue Areas provide a framework for taking action. New Global Citizen Teams select a Global Project to raise awareness and resources for within their community. Global Projects are community organizations located in countries across the globe that have been identified through partnerships with reputable international development organizations and address an Issue Area in their community.
Global Projects must be grassroots (i.e. community led and driven), sustainable, and of a nature where a small investment of resources makes a tremendous impact on the project community. A New Global Citizens team experience transforms youth possessing an interest in global issues and activism into informed, effective, and empowered life-long advocates of sustainable global change.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Jennifer Malone, o.s.Earth
Jennifer Malone grew up in Maryland’s horse country and attended Towson University in Baltimore, graduating with degrees in Journalism and Art. Following graduation, Jennifer purchased a round-the-world air ticket that allowed her to stop in as many countries as she liked as long as she continued traveling in one direction. A yearlong solo trip around the world took her to 38 countries from New Zealand to Nepal and Morocco to Iceland. Upon her return Jennifer ran a youth hostel in Baltimore before meeting her husband on I-95 (literally. She’ll tell you the story!) and relocating to Boston. At age 24, Jennifer became one of the youngest professors hired at Boston University and continues to teach part time in their College of Communication. After eight years working as a publicist for 20th Century Fox and Miramax Films organizing press tours for celebrities and planning movie premieres (lots of stories there too!), the birth of her identical twin boys, and later her daughter, took her away from the red carpet and to a new focus with o.sEarth. She has been traveling (in far shorter stints) and facilitating the Global Workshop Simulation for the past seven years. Though teaching and travel remain passions, Jennifer also gets her creative juices going with her own company, Linaloos Designs, which offers lines of accessories handmade from vintage sweaters to over 150 boutiques. In her spare time, of which there isn’t much, she dreams about new stamps in her passport.
Jennifer Vollman, Executive Director, New Global Citizens
Jennifer Volkmann grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. She attended Santa Clara University and graduated with a double major in Political Science and Religious Studies. She spent her college summers in Thailand, Tanzania, and India volunteering and finding adventures like electrocution, hiking though the Himalayas covered in leeches, hitch-hiking and hanging out with gorillas in Uganda, and meditating at Buddhist monasteries. After college she followed her passion for politics and Africa and moved to Kenya to run a parliamentary campaign for Philo Ikonya. While in Kenya, Jennifer started a NGO in Kenya which provides scholarships to high school students. Jennifer’s experiences working, volunteering, and traveling abroad challenged her to inspire others to think critically about the world’s problems and work towards change. Jennifer’s heart will always be in Kenya and she is looking forward to growing sweet potatoes and drinking chai on her shamba in Kenya.
Location
Rio Salado College Conference Center
2323 West 14th Street
Tempe, AZ 85281 United States
33° 24' 46.332" N, 111° 58' 27.6924" W
See map: Google Maps
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI)