Pro Tip: Resfresher Courses - Should you take the same course twice?
Partner Spotlight: Non-Profit Management Fund
Featured Program: Mastering Technology of Participation (MToP)
Case Story: Facilitation Tools for Conference Exhibitor Success
Upcoming Event: Minnesota Counties Conference
Mission Update
Message From Our Team
As we journey through November, we take a moment to honor our veterans' profound service and sacrifice this Veterans Day. Their dedication to our nation reflects a commitment to democracy, institutions built for the common good, and a legacy of service that uplifts communities and inspires future leaders. At HueLife, weâre inspired by this spirit of service and are dedicated to helping you harness your own leadership and community-building skills. This month, weâre excited to share a range of opportunities designed to strengthen your abilities and expand your professional network. In this newsletter, youâll find details about the Mastering Technology of Participation (MToP) program, a powerful resource for enhancing your facilitation skills. Youâll also discover how our partnerships, such as with the Nonprofit Management Fund, bring additional value to communities. Let us work together to build stronger, more connected communities that honor the values of service, sacrifice, and democracy that our veterans embody. See you in the training room! đ
Upcoming Courses
Our remaining 2024 courses are filling up fast! In addition to these upcoming courses, make sure to check out our Featured Program section below to learn about Mastering Technology of Participation (MToP) below.
HUE⢠Conversations
Learn to engag diverse thinking styles, leading to better team decisions and results. It offers a structured approach to help teams overcome challenges and achieve their goals.
A deep dive into understanding your leadership, the complexities of team dynamics, and how to lead through them.
Develop a self-aware, impactful, and flexible leadership style
Build a high-performing, collaborative team culture
Learn to empower your team and lead toward meaningful change
Each retreat is designed around a specific level or type of leadership, enhancing your experience through dynamic cohort-style learning. Registration opens soon!
Foster meaningful engagement in your collaborations through facilitation methods that promote active participation & collaborative decision-making. Learn how to build cohesion, trust, and engagement between different organizations and agencies coming together to address important community issues.
Monthly Community of Practice - November 20 - FREE
November 20 and the third Wednesday of each month from 12:00-1:00 p.m. CT.
Our free monthly Community of Practice is where we continually learn from one another to improve facilitation skills by exploring real-life situations and sharing lessons learned. Register for one or more months using the RSVP link and save the date for our Community of Practice in December. We will welcome Gerald Gomani as our guest speaker and discuss the anticipations for the 9th Global Conference on Human Development in Zimbabwe 2025. Gerald will also share how he uses ToP Methods in his work. This time, it will also include a Youth Conference where young people from around the world, including Ukraine and Minnesota, will learn ToP Methods and work to identify the role of youth in the dimension of human development.
Should you take the same course twice? Short answer...Yes!
While it might seem redundant at first, repeating a course can offer a wealth of benefits. We call these "refresher" courses. Taking a refresher course is a smart and effective way to strengthen your knowledge and skills and offers numerous benefits. Some benefits include:
Reinforces Knowledge â It helps solidify concepts and ensures you fully understand the material.
Fills Gaps â A second pass lets you catch anything you missed or forgot the first time.
Boosts Confidence â Revisiting the course increases your competence, making you feel more confident in applying the knowledge.
Lightbulb Moments - As you bridge knowledge gaps and elevate your confidence, you'll experience those lightbulb moments. These are the instances when a concept suddenly makes perfect sense or you discover newfound value in a tool you've been honing through practice.
Updates Information â Courses may have been updated with new data or practices to keep you current in your field.
Improves Retention â Repetition strengthens memory and makes the information easier to recall in the long term.
Discounted RatesâSome organizations offer discounts for refreshers. For example, ToP Facilitation Methods refreshers are only $250!
There is so much value in taking a course more than once. We hope to see you in the training room (again)!
Featured Program
Our 2025 cohort registration is now open! Learn from some of the industry's best facilitators and leading ToPÂŽ training providers on a journey toward facilitation mastery.
The Mastering Technology of Participation (MToP) program is designed to deepen your knowledge of ToPÂŽ Methods, grow your awareness, develop a facilitative mindset, and have fun while learning new tools, processes, and applications for engagement and facilitation methods. This program includes experiential learning to expand your leadership capabilities and transform your facilitation practice, mentoring, and hands-on field experience.
Benefits of MToP:
Enhanced ability to engage, facilitate, and design diverse events and change approaches.
Increased capacity and confidence to help people achieve effective, productive action.
New tools to initiate and sustain organizational and community change.
Practice and support from an enduring, powerful community of dedicated facilitators.
Also, educational expenses for professional skills qualify for income tax deductions.
This program is an investment, and we are here to help. Contact us to learn more about various discounts that HueLife can offer you. Note: ToP Facilitation Methods is a prerequisite. We have 4 TFM courses before the MToP start.
Do you have questions about MToP? Join a LinkedIn Live Info Session
Still on the fence about joining? Join or watch the recording of our LinkedIn live sessions! In these sessions, you will learn about the program, its benefits and applications. On November 22 at 12pm CT, we will focus on the high-levelâwho, what, when, where, and how, and also hear from 2024 cohort participants on their experience!
Since 1994, the Nonprofit Management Fund has operated as a collaboration of private funders in the metropolitan Milwaukee area. Collectively, the funders have contributed over $9.9 million for grants to nonprofit organizations and to implement related initiatives. Their mission is to accelerate the effectiveness of nonprofits to build strong and vibrant communities. The Nonprofit Management Fund holds the core belief that strong nonprofits build strong communities, so they provide capacity-building technical assistance grants to nonprofit organizations for governance planning, training, and assessment.
HueLife customized an introductory course for fund members in the spring, teaching a strategic planning framework and the leadership concepts necessary to lead strategic change. Participants learned to develop and communicate their vision, build successful plans, and inspire their team to move into meaningful action. As a result of this partnership, four Milwaukee area nonprofits that participated in the course will receive pro-bono strategic planning services to experience what they learned. We will feature these organizations and their fantastic work in our 2025 newsletters.
Case Story
Facilitation Tools for Conference Exhibitor Success
We had the incredible opportunity to attend the American Public Health Association 2024 annual conference at the Minneapolis Convention Center. It was an exhilarating experience, connecting with passionate public health professionals from across the nation and beyond! Our mission was clear: to transform our booth from a mere backdrop into a dynamic hub of interaction and inspiration amidst a bustling exhibition floor. We were eager to showcase how our innovative tools and facilitation expertise could elevate the conference experience for every participant. Thank you to all who participated in our booth! Read about the components to our success at APHA 2024.
The Association of Minnesota Counties connects all 87 counties in Minnesota. If you work in or with local government agencies in Minnesota, this is a conference for you. We will have a booth set up to connect with conference go-ers and talk about how we can partner to better serve Minnesota counties. We will also have a couple of engaging activities - which is always to be expected from the HueLife team!
Mission Update
U N B R O K E N
Ukrainian and American Veterans came together in a lightly attended workshop on September 23, at the International City Managerâs Association to hear about efforts for Veteran âReintegrationâ in Ukraine (and the USA). The stories were inspiring, unfathomable in scope, and heartbreaking all at the same time. It was disappointing to see only a tiny fraction, made up of mostly American Veterans, of the conference attendees gather to hear of Lviv, Ukraineâs comprehensive mind, body, and soul UNBROKEN program for hundreds of thousands of military and civilian war casualties. This Ukrainian program could serve as a blueprint for how US communities can address struggles with homelessness, violence, and drug use as consequences of veteran mental health issues.
It was hard⌠really hard to send our YouLEAD teenage students back to their Ukrainian homes in cities that suffer constant bombardment after the five-week leadership program which ended September 16. But, their country needs them. As they return to their cities and villages across Ukraine, these 15-17-year-olds are creating their own non-profit aimed at establishing reintegration programs for veterans starting with âteens and veteran conversations.â I watched as our fifteen Ukrainians and two Minnesotan youth mingled with severely wounded veterans receiving prosthetics at PROTEZ in Oakdale, MN. As apprehension and pity melted away, they had an open discussion on how to treat each other on the streets and cafes, and in the workplaces they will share. As the Ukrainians were joined by an American Green Baret amputee from the war in Afghanistan, he shared his suggestions to the teens in the same way he hopes Americans see their veterans. âHonor the sacrifices of these soldiers,â he said, âthey are heroes. They donât need pity, they need community. They donât want you to feel sorry for them, or to be afraid of them, they need connection and opportunity.â (Our thanks to DAV (Disabled American Veterans) for stepping forward to be part of the âcommunity.â
See the Minnesota Channel 9 story on Protez and YouLEAD and join us in support of Ukrainian veterans who are receiving prosthetics in MN at Protez.
Have questions or suggestions for our HUE News? Either respond to this email or contact Flower Krutina, Director of Community Engagement atflower.krutina@hue.life
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