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Monthly Check-In 4 Homework
- Send Dana the slides you presented last week
- Practice your presentation, timing yourself to get it down to 3 mins
- Finalize your slides
- Reach out to faculty if you need any support at all
- Meet with your mentor
- Send Dana a picture of yourself to be included in the graduation slideshow
- Check your bio and let Dana know if there are any updates
- Send Dana the name of your project if it isn’t explicitly on your slideshow
- Record a 30 sec-1 min video of yourself answering the question “What impact did LET(s)Lead have on you?” (professionally and/or personally)
Monthly Check-In 3 Homework
- Connect with your mentor
- Connect with faculty
- Continue your project planning
- Come to class with two slides to update us on your project
Monthly Check-Ins 1 and 2 Homework
- Connect with your mentor
- Connect with faculty
- Continue your project planning
Class 11 Homework
- Develop an elevator pitch to share during the next class
- Complete sections 4 (Requirements), 5 (Deliverables/Implementation Plan), and 6 (Timeline) of your project planning document
- Bring any questions about class concepts and/or readings
Class 10 Homework
- Complete sections 2 (Stakeholders), 3 (Project Scope), and 4 (Requirements) of your project planning document.
- Come to class prepared to present the main idea, stakeholders, and next steps of your project in 2 minutes, using no more than 3 slides
Class 9 Homework
- Complete the main idea portion (Project Description) of your project planning document
- Complete power mapping assignment from last week
- Read “Power and the People’s Health”
- Read “The Recovery Rocks Community”
- Watch “First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy”
- Explore the Supplemental Readings from Class 8
Class 7 Follow-Up Homework and Class 8 Homework:
- Review one (or more) of the following co-design/co-production resources and prepare to discuss key learnings for you as an emerging leader:
- Power mapping:
- Google “power map” and select a format that works for you.
- Review the 5 steps on the slide on an issue you are passionate about it.
- Create a power map
- Write about your experience /confer with peers
Class 6 Follow-Up Homework and Class 7 Homework:
- Watch “Courage conversations about Race” by Glenn Singleton.
- Use the Courage Conversation Compass.
- Use the Four Agreements of Courageous Conversations to conduct one in your community (Adapted from Glenn E. Singleton & Curtis Linton).
- Watch “Power and the people’s health: a health equity power analysis of multisectoral policy”
- Read “Power and the People’s Health”
- Review the MHLEEN Lived experience engagement guides, policies and procedures
Class 6 Homework:
- Watch “Courage conversations about Race” by Glenn Singleton
- Read “The Four Agreements of Courageous Conversations” (Adapted from Glenn E. Singleton & Curtis Linton)
- Read “Culturally Adaptive Governance—Building a New Framework for Equity in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research: Theoretical Basis, Ethics, Attributes and Evaluation”
- Take one or more of the Implicit Bias Tests (Project Implicit Mental Health, 1998)
- Journal your responses to the following questions:
- What types of people, personality types or behaviors offend me or make me uncomfortable when I’m interacting with others? Why do they affect me this way?
- What types of people, personality types, or behaviors bring out the caretaker and/or protector in me when I’m interacting with others? Why do they affect me this way?
- What type of communicator am I? and how has my cultural upbringing/worldview shaped my style?
- How do I handle conflict?
Class 5 Homework:
There is a lot here this week, so please don’t feel like you need to read it all! Skim and choose ~2 to read in depth!
- Read “The Angry Consumer”: Embracing Difficult Conversations”
- Read “Towards a Social Justice Framework of Mental Health Recovery”
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Explore one of the following Positive Identity Movements:
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Hearing Voices Movement
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Autistic Movement
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Multiples Movement
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Journal about intersectionality in the context of your own mental health work/groups/settings and who (what groups, positionalities) is excluded or under-represented?
Class 4 Homework:
- Read Australia’s National Mental Health Commission’s Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Development Guidelines
- Read 10 Transformational Leadership Characteristics
- Read Are you a Transformational Leader?
- Read Developing the 3 Habits of Transformational Leaders
- Watch Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe by Simon Senak
- Journal your responses to the following questions:
- What is your best work? What are you most proud of?
- What is your passion, your purpose? What is the story behind this passion and purpose? How did you know?
- What small thing brings you great joy?
- If you had everything you needed, what would your best life look like?
Class 3 Homework:
- Read “The Appreciative Inquiry and Culture Change at GTE: Launching a Positive Revolution”
- Watch “Appreciative Inquiry: A Conversation with David Cooperrider”
- Watch “Brief History of Appreciative Inquiry source Jackie Kelm”
- Spend ~1 hour Reading A Thin Book on Appreciative Inquiry by Sue Hammond
- Journal your responses to the following questions:
- Why do you do what you do?
- What is the engine that keeps you up late at night or gets you going in the morning?
- Where is your happy place?
- What stands between you and your ultimate dream? (Consider answering this question: who or what do you envy and why?)
Class 2 Homework:
- Read “Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist, Multicultural Institution” (Bread for the Journey)
- Read “WHITE DOMINANT CULTURE & SOMETHING DIFFERENT: a worksheet”(Adapted For ACCE)
- Review the Black Dog Institute’s Resources
- Review the “Embrace Framework for Mental Health in Multicultural Australia”
Class 1 Homework:
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Respond to Dana’s e-mail (dana.asby@yale.edu) with your professional organization and title, to be included in our Cohort 6 Directory
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Complete the “Who am I?” assignment and be prepared to share about yourself
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Complete this brief survey about peer leadership perceptions in Australia
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Visit the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) website to learn more about the work of PRCH.
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Read “The Global Need for Lived Experience Leadership” (Byrne, Stratford, Davidson, 2018)
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Read “Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care: A Perspective on the Past, Present, and Future” (Davidson, Rowe, DiLeo, Bellamy, & Delphin-Rittmon, 2021)