Tuesday’s events will kick off with a breakfast program open to all bushCONNECT attendees at the Depot hotel.
Breakfast will open at 7:00 AM with a program featuring the Morning Fill Up from 7:45 to 9:00 AM.
After that, those attending Tuesday workshops will head off to start their adventures for the day!
In the evening, we’re partnering with Ignite MPLS for a special 10th edition of Ignite, a series of 5-minute talks that are sure to leave you inspired!
BREAKFAST PROGRAM
This Tuesday breakfast session will be open to all bushCON participants prior to the day’s workshops.
The Numad Group
Morning Fill Up: bushCON Edition
GUEST: JEN FORD REEDY, PRESIDENT OF THE BUSH FOUNDATION
The Depot - Pavilion
Morning Fill Up is a 24-hour blitz of conversations and collaborations with good people doing good things creatively and collaboratively.
Founded by The Numad Group and co-sponsored by The Bush Foundation, the monthly series brings regional and national guests to The Garage coworking space in Rapid City to inspire western South Dakota to put their creative energies into action.
Now, Morning Fill Up is coming to bushCON in the exact same format: A conversation, not a presentation. A dialogue, not a pitch. Two chairs, a table and a community of interested people.
Morning Fill Up Co-Founder and Bush Fellow Matt Ehlman will sit down with Bush Foundation President Jennifer Ford Reedy to learn more about Jen, and her personal priorities and vision for the future, in a Charlie Rose-style interview.
Then Jen will turn the tables and ask the questions, discovering with Matt and co-founder Ted Stephens III, the “how and why” of this series, and what it could mean for your community.
EVENING PROGRAM
bushCON attendees can register at a special rate; instructions will arrive in your registration confirmation email.
Ignite Minneapolis
iGNITE MINNEAPOLIS: 10TH eDITION
The Depot - Pavilion
Ignite is a high-energy evening of 5-minute talks by people who have a compelling idea or story — and the guts to get onstage and share it with a packed theater.
The Ignite format works like this: Each speaker prepares a deck of 20 slides which auto-advance every 15 seconds, giving each speaker 5 minutes to give their talk. The rapid-fire pace of this format often makes for a frenetic delivery, and the variety of topics means the audience is unlikely to ever get bored.
Some talks are serious science, others are pure satire. Attendees come to learn and to be inspired. The motto of Ignite is, "Enlighten us, but make it quick."
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Note you must be registered for bushCONNECT to register for Tuesday workshops
Do Cool Sh*T Workshop
Bush Foundation
The Depot - Hiawatha 1
Learn how to step outside of your comfort zone and make a career out of something you love in this workshop led by Serial Social Entrepreneur Miki Agrawal.
Explore your creative mojo, your purposes and your inner rock star. Transform your weaknesses into strengths and your ideas into actions. Develop tangible skills that will launch your business effectively.
This workshop is for you if you want real advice about how to start a successful company—from brainstorming to raising money to getting press without any connections—all while having a meaningful life!
How to Improve Audience Engagement with Brand Messaging
jabber logic
The Depot - Great Hall
You care deeply about your nonprofit or small business, but you struggle to tell its story effectively. You often worry that your communications feel outdated or don't clearly explain what your organization offers.
Create a brand messaging guide at the bushCONNECT session, "How to Improve Audience Engagement with Brand Messaging."
This four-hour workshop uses exercises and activities to help you identify your audiences, analyze how they engage with you and challenge you to create messaging through the lens of your audiences. You'll walk away from the session with a completed rough draft of your brand messaging framework.
Identity-Driven Leadership: Developing Resilience and Restorative Practices
Minnesota Rising and LOCUS
Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Join LOCUS and Minnesota Rising for interactive companion workshops to explore the topic of identity-driven leadership. The concurrent workshops will include intentional intersections between the companion tracks to allow for shared experiences exploring race, identity and leadership.
This workshop by and for self-identified leaders of color will weave in opportunities for learning about tools and resources for leaders of color and American Indians to recognize the personal and collective impacts of racial oppression as well as to spend time engaging in restorative and healing practices.
A companion workshop for leaders who identify as white or of European descent will build on an exploration of identity and values to provide a space for courageous engagement with race and power.
This session is hosted by and for leaders of color as a supportive and courageous space. You should identify as a person of color or American Indian to attend this session.
Identity-Driven Leadership: Engaging with Race and Power
Minnesota Rising and LOCUS
Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Join LOCUS and Minnesota Rising for interactive companion workshops to explore the topic of identity-driven leadership. The concurrent workshops will include intentional intersections between the companion tracks to allow for shared experiences exploring race, identity and leadership.
This workshop for leaders who identify as white or of European descent will provide a space for courageous engagement with topics like race, power and privilege. An exploration of our identities and values will be the foundation for dialogue and creative skill-building to understand what it means for each of us to mindfully lead and learn in our respective communities.
A companion workshop by and for self-identified leaders of color will weave in opportunities for learning about tools and resources for leaders of color and American Indians to recognize the personal and collective impacts of racial oppression as well as to spend time engaging in restorative and healing practices.
This session is hosted by and for leaders who identify as white or of European descent as a supportive and courageous space. You should identify as white or of European descent to attend this session.
Introduction to Data Visualization
Eyeo Festival
The Depot - Charles Frost
If you have data, showing it in pictures is often the best way to communicate it.
In this workshop, we’ll share how to pick the right chart to communicate data effectively. You'll learn what charts are best for different kinds of data and different messages, such as showing growth or loss over time, or making a comparison of different group sizes. If you have a story to get across, you may choose to use a series of different charts. We'll cover design tips that will help you best express your message and avoid design disasters.
Life Reimagined LifeMap™: Make your next step the right step
Pollen
DayBlock Event Center, 1105 Washinton Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55415
In every professional journey there’s a time when you hit the “What’s Next?” crossroad. Pollen and AARP have teamed up to bring you an in depth, focused panel + workshop that will address this very question—whether that’s starting a new career, refocusing a current career, building a new business or living a dream.
This session will provide tangible guidance in discovering your talents, exploring new possibilities and developing skills to understand where you are now and how to make the changes you seek or need. We’ll kickoff with an inspiring panel of leaders who have each experienced their own kind of “reimagining.” We’ll then dive into a workshop facilitated by trained experts, with plenty of time for reflection activities and guided conversation.
The Power of Storytelling: Bookmaking and Publishing Experience
Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute
MOI Offices, 2388 University Avenue West, Saint Paul, MN 55114
People remember stories, not facts or numbers.
During this session you’ll learn that stories can change the world. We will begin by working together to publish a creative and wacky story utilizing participants, professional writers and illustrators. You’ll have the chance to meet new people and exchange exciting ideas. After your original book is complete, we will discuss the power of storytelling. You’ll find out why the best leaders use stories to communicate, and figure out how to make the best use of stories in your professional and personal life. Be prepared to be a bit silly, but you’ll leave the session with a deeper understanding of how to best use stories in your everyday life.
Preparing for Action: a Practical Use of Theater for Social Change
Guthrie Theater
Guthrie Theater - Dowling Studio
The Guthrie Theater presents a half-day workshop exploring Theater of the Oppressed, a revolutionary form of theater built around the ideas of community building and conflict resolution by Brazilian theater artist Augusto Boal.
Working in small and large groups, participants will experience Boal’s work for themselves and learn techniques for building consensus, problem solving and developing dialogue among diverse constituencies. The day will include opportunities to practice applying the theory and techniques to the current climate in a variety of environments, from personal growth to organizational change, from responding to the seemingly mundane to responding to ingrained systems of oppression.
Participants are encouraged to bring ideas about areas of their lives, work or community where they would like to see change.
Responding to Injustice: Committing to Equity
Zemsky & Associates Consulting
The Depot - Hiawatha 1
Times are critical. We are all being called upon to do our part to address the outrageous disparities impacting our communities. How will you respond? How can you individually better understand the complexities of inequity and make an effort to address them? How can you best align these values with your organization's mission, operation and programs?
Join us for this action-oriented workshop on Intercultural Development, the process of understanding culture and questioning assumptions. You will also see how to link your organization's overall development with strategic diversity, inclusion and equity goals.
Over the course of the workshop, we will:
- Explore a theoretical and practical foundation regarding diversity, inclusion and equity.
- Learn methodologies to apply intercultural skills to intercultural organizational development, organizational culture change and the production of equitable outcomes.
- Experience educational activities and tools to assist in facilitating ongoing effective dialogue with colleagues around issues of cultural competence, inclusiveness and equity.
This workshop is open to anyone interested in discussing equity work - no prior knowledge or experience is required.
Sweet Potato Comfort Pie™ - A Catalyst for Caring & Building Community
Sweet Potato Comfort Pie Initiative
Calvary Lutheran Church - Golden Valley, 7520 Golden Valley Road, Golden Valley, MN 55427
Tasting delicious sweet potato pie, the sacred dessert of black culture, is a good thing indeed, but the real deed in being good starts in the kitchen – making and baking the pies.
Participants will venture into the community of Golden Valley (12 minutes west of downtown Minneapolis) and experience making their own Sweet Potato Comfort Pies™ as a team.
Each person will have their own pie to take and then gift to someone in their respective community. Throughout the day (in between potatoes cooking and pies cooling) participants will engage deeper into understanding the story circle process and how to convene challenging conversations on topics such as race, culture, etc. By the end of the day, an artistic reflective practice will blend into the closing as participants share stories of to whom they are gifting pies.