Culture Shift is a 3-month advanced leadership course limited to 5 participants who will develop skills and get individualized coaching in three focus areas:
Social Capital + Social Entrepreneurship + Leadership
Spring 2019 Course Description:
Scarabys Consulting is offering an advanced Culture Shift program for a limited number of five individuals per session who are looking to build on and enhance their existing work and models using approaches and tools for: building social capital, implementing social entrepreneurial models, and a different approach to leadership.
Students can enroll in one area of focus, or undertake the whole series. For each concept, the advanced course includes 3-hour Theory sessions to access a deep intellectual understanding of the topics. This is followed by a 4-hour Deep Dive application session that moves from theory into application and implementation as it relates to the projects and experiences of the students, who are also seen as teachers in this sharing process. Sessions will take place at Kheprw Institute (3549 Boulevard Place).
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Testimonials:
"I had the privilege of being apart of the first Scarabys Consulting MasterClass discussing social equity and it was beyond life affirming. To be able to see the true value in community and work, outside of monetary capital, gave me the push I needed to take my work to the next level. I would recommend Scarabys Consulting to everyone and anyone that is ready to evoke real change within their work." - Tatajana Rebelle
"Through our Culture Shift class, we established social and cultural networks that extended beyond the classroom setting. We learned powerful ways to enhance community investment, civic engagement and economic development to improve urban community well-being...The class motivated me to focus on my own social responsibility to engage in social justice endeavors that make a positive difference in sustaining neighborhoods and communities with effective urban renewal efforts that benefit all people, regardless of their racial and socioeconomic status." - Latosha Rowley
Course Schedule: 2nd and 3rd Mondays April - June
Social Capital Theory (Mon Apr 8th 9am-12pm) and Deep Dive (Mon Apr 22nd 9am-1pm)
Focus: Identifying, building, leveraging and maintaining social capital, why social capital is important, how it relates to other forms of capital and worldviews. We will bring in field experts who share their personal approaches to inform our discussion. Case studies that embody the above principles will be used to make the concepts tangible and interactive.
The Deep Dive session will utilize the experiences and projects of the participants to bring the concepts to life in a way that can be accessible as well as interrogated. This session will focus on hands-on activities and implementation of social capital concepts through a systems approach. Participants will leave with frameworks for understanding social capital, and systems and tools for actively understanding and utilizing social capital.
Social Entrepreneurship Theory (Mon Apr 13th 9am-12pm) and Deep Dive Mon Apr 27th 9am-1pm)
Focus: Defining social entrepreneurship, exploring different models of social entrepreneurship, characteristics and skills of entrepreneurs and their teams, connecting social capital and social entrepreneurship, and investigating why social enterprise is popular in this moment. Our discussion will be informed by conversations with experts from the field, as well as engaging with key texts from authors like Jim Collins and Peter Senge. Case studies that embody the above principles will be used to make the concepts tangible and interactive.
The Deep Dive session will utilize the experiences and projects of the participants to bring the concepts to life in a way that can be accessible as well as interrogated. This session will focus on hands-on activities and implementation of social entrepreneurship concepts through a systems approach. Participants will leave with frameworks for understanding social entrepreneurship models, skills, mindsets, and systems and tools for actively understanding and utilizing social entrepreneurship.
Leadership Theory (Mon Jun 10th 9am-12pm) and Deep Dive (Mon June 24th 9am-1pm)
Defining and redefining leadership, cultivating leadership organizations and cultures, connecting social capital and leadership, and exploring key leadership principles including human centered, mentorship, sustainability, conflict transformation, flat leadership with peaks, intergenerational, and systems thinking. Our discussion will be informed by conversations with experts from the field, as well as engaging with key texts from authors like John Maxwell and Stephen Covey. Case studies that embody the above principles will be used to make the concepts tangible and interactive. The Deep Dive session will utilize the experiences and projects of the participants to bring the concepts to life in a way that can be accessible as well as interrogated. This session will focus on hands-on activities and implementation of leadership concepts through a systems approach. Participants will leave with a complex understanding of what leadership means and how to build it with self and others, as well as systems and tools for actively practicing leadership skills in daily life.
Meet the Instructors
Imhotep Adisa is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Kheprw Institute, a non-profit organization focused on youth development in Indianapolis, IN. Over the course of a momentous 14 year period, Imhotep has guided the Kheprw Institute (KI) as it has blossomed from a small mentorship program serving 5 African American high school males to a mid-size intergenerational multi-racial organization addressing and creating future-oriented solutions for myriads of community challenges: education, environment, economy and empowerment.
Drawing on a lifetime of experience as an entrepreneur and servant leader, Imhotep has helped to successfully launch a multitude of social enterprises with little to no monetary capital. He instead focuses on the power of social capital and believes relationships and people are the most valuable resource in any community. He uses these community-centered businesses as platforms for community economic development and leadership development, serving as a mentor and coach to dozens of individuals within the organization and outside of it. Three of these enterprises are described below.
Mimi Zakem studied environmental management at Indiana University Bloomington where her passion for community-based social change and food system work blossomed. She moved to Indianapolis in 2015 to work with urban farmers as an AmeriCorps VISTA. She connected with the Kheprw Institute and became heavily involved with the Community Controlled Food Initiative as an approach to fresh food access and community building. She is a founding partner of Scarabys Consulting, co-leading curriculum development, speaking and facilitation. She is grateful for heaps of mentorship and community love, as she works toward self-mastery and growing her contribution to community.
LinkedIn
YouTube - Community Controlled Food Initiative
IndyStar: Community Collaboration in Key to Food Security
Diop Adisa was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is a graduate of IUPUI studying philosophy. He has been with the grassroots community organization Kheprw Institute (KI) since its inception back in 2003. To describe him simply, he's an artist, activist and entrepreneur. He's a founding partner of Scarabys Consulting where he is a leader in curriculum development, speaking and facilitation. He’s also an independent hip hop artists who has work within the Indianapolis hip hop community for the past 10 years.
Rasul Palmer has been an integral part of the Kheprw Institute for over 10 years. He is a natural systems thinker and is always looking at the bigger picture. He has facilitated many community conversations and public forums at Kheprw Institute over the years including series on The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates and currently he is a co-facilitator for Afrofuture Fridays along with local Indy writer Maurice Broaddus.
afrofuturism.kheprw.org
YouTube - Rasul Palmer talks about The New Jim Crow
YouTube - Systems Thinking and Aquaponics
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