The Forum
Now accepting applications for the 2011-2012 EASL Forum. Applications Due Sept. 12 Download Here
A weekly, interdisciplinary forum focused on service, community building, and leadership development. The Forum brings together 15 undergraduate and graduate students, selected through an application process, in a year-long collaborative learning experience that includes retreats, skill-building sessions, outside speakers, and student-developed projects.
Forum Mission
The mission of the Ethics and Servant Leadership (EASL) Forum is to animate, advance and support students as they develop the power to serve and lead for the common good. Toward that end, we aim to deepen the competence and confidence of students through an experience that:
- Cultivates a sense of shared community among the participants through group and individual exercises
- Provides training that equips students with skills for effective group engagement
- Develops ethical attentiveness and moral imagination
- Challenges students to develop a strong group that utilizes group assets and nurtures individual needs for growth
- Promotes a culture that supports open dialogue and risk-taking
- Integrates multiple learning styles and educational elements in order to engage the whole individual.
Why?
More than ever, our society needs responsible young leaders not only to revitalize and transform existing institutions, organizations and ways of thinking, but to create new ones as well. Servant Leadership, a leadership models for the new millennium, "emphasizes increased service to others and a holistic approach to work, promoting a sense of community and sharing of power in decision-making." The EASL Forum focuses on developing such leaders among its members.What?
- Weekly Meetings: Forum sessions will focus on themes such as building community, leadership skill-building, group dynamics and personal leadership styles. Community exemplars will join the group on a monthly basis. Past guests include Doug Ammar, Executive Director, Georgia Justice Project; Pierre Ferrari, Hot Fudge Venture Fund; Robin Haithco-Brown, Director of Chaplaincy Services, Grady Memorial Hospital; Thomas McBryde, Teach for America; Dr. Luther Smith, Candler School of Theology.
- Group Retreat: A retreat in the fall (typically to Nantahala Outdoor Center in North Carolina) helps kick-off the program. Attendance is required (exceptions will, of course, be made for religious observers).
- Public Service: Over the course of the year, members will have the opportunity to engage in public service and ongoing volunteer activities.
- Informal Gatherings: Social gatherings offer the group the chance to interact in a non-structured setting.
When?
The EASL Forum is a yearlong program that meets on Monday nights from 5:00-7:00pm.Who?
Fifteen Emory undergraduate, graduate, and professional students who have demonstrated leadership potential and a desire to serve through their involvement in Emory or community activities.
If you have questions of comments, please contact Edward Queen or Carlton Mackey
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