Inspiring Leadership in Immigrant Communities - ILRC

Inspiring Leadership in Immigrant CommunitiesJanuary 20032. Planning a Role-PlayAfter picking a topic, each group must determine how it wants to role-play thetopic; that is, how does the group want to demonstrate the topic to the others inthis training.Some possibilities:• Have a press conference—write a press release and host a mock pressconference with the audience as the press.• Develop an organizing campaign—create a blueprint for such a campaign,explain the campaign and demonstrate short talks to groups such as churches,asking for signatures on a petition or some other form of support for thecampaign.• Conduct mock congressional meetings to convince members of Congress tosupport the issues.• Conduct public hearings on some important issue.3. Logistics of the presentations for tomorrow• The five groups will combine two form three larger groups—two groups withtwo partner organizations and the last group with just one.• Each group member must speak for 5-6 minutes followed by a 5 minutecritique for each person and a 10 minute group critique (90 minutes pergroup—40 for speakers, 50 for critique.)6:10 Social activity optionalDay 3: Representative Partner Organization Staff, Ambassadors and Immigrant LeadersPresent8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast8:30-8:45 Review of the Day and Announcements8:45-12:00 Advocacy Presentations (Including a Break)• There will be five groups of approximately seven people each.• Each group member must speak for 5-6 minutes followed by a 5 minute critique foreach person and a 10 minute group critique (90 minutes per group—40 for speakers,50 for critique.)• A partner will lead the group critique.• Each group must pick a substantive topic. Possible topics include:12-33