It is the goal of the Teachers and Reflection Group Leaders that the Leadership Institutes will enable you to build your own institution and contribute to the common good in specific ways.

Below are some of the benefits from participating in the Institutes:

• You will build relationships with people from some of the 34  member institutions of MACG, gain insight into how people from diverse backgrounds can come together to work for the common good. (Each session)

• You will have experience in how to strengthen your institution by building relationships across age, culture and economic barriers; identify the forces that shape the lives of individuals and families in our community. (Relationships as a Foundation for Public Action)

• You will learn how to move your institution toward a greater fulfillment of its mission in shaping / transforming the rest of the community through discovering the unmet needs of its members. (Mediating Institutions and Self-Interest)

• You will gain skill in identifying the uses of relational power in the public arena that express the values of your institution. (Relational Power)

• You will learn to lead by living out the values of your institution and by intentionally building your network of meaningful relationships inside and outside your institution. (Public Dimensions of Private Life)

• You will be trained in leading a small group process within your institution that identifies the needs of members for re-shaping your institution, neighborhood and community. (Developing Issues and Creating a Culture of Relational Power)

• You will have the opportunity to observe and evaluate an action that brings the relational power of a group to move decision-makers to a particular conclusion.  (Collective Discipline/Negotiating for the Common Good)

• You will hear and learn about actual leaders’ experiences of building their institution’s core team and their own leadership growth.  (Core Team development and Leadership Qualities)