2025 Northwest Prevention Leadership Academy using Liberating Structures, Session 1

The goal of the 2025 Northwest Prevention Leadership Academy is to engage leaders in the prevention workforce to identify and build upon their strengths to encourage the heart, model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, and enable others to act effectively in prevention.

The Leadership Academy combines both virtual and in-person sessions to explore leadership principles for prevention coalitions using a set of Liberating Structures. The Northwest PTTC is again collaborating with a dynamic group of facilitators, including Anna Jackson, and Fisher Qua from Liberating Structures, to present the academy. Liberating Structures is a set of practical methods and tools designed to foster active participation and create innovation among team members, collaborators, and communities. Their use flattens hierarchy and facilitates trust-building and shared commitment to group values and outcomes. 

Please note, participants are required to attend all virtual and in-person sessions. 

Schedule 

• Session 1: Exploring Liberating Structures to flatten leadership hierarchy
  Monday, April 7, 1-2:30 p.m. PT, Virtual 
• Session 2: Personal leadership assessment & growth opportunities
  Monday, April 14, 1-2:30 p.m. PT, Virtual
• Session 3: Enhancing leadership by using Liberating Structures
  Tuesday, April 29, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. PT & Wednesday, April 30, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PT, In-person - Portland, OR
• Session 4: Leadership wisdom group" Application of learning to leadership planning 
  Wednesday, May 14, 1-2:30 p.m., Virtual