Welcome Meadowlark Project Leadership Lab

The Meadowlark Project Leadership Lab will visit 56572 on October 24th. Their mission is described as:

This is the heart of the Meadowlark Project –a small group of people working together over the next 18 months to impact the future of the northern plains region. This group – the Meadowlark Project Leadership Laboratory Team – will work to find new ways to see and to address long-standing, systemic problems in our region. Together, the Meadowlark Leadership Lab Team will:

1. Create a vision of a positive, progressive future for the region;
2. Create living examples of how the entire northern Great Plains region can be a place of opportunity for all people;
3. Experience extraordinary leadership growth as individuals and for their organizations.

If our region is to reach its fullest economic, social, environmental and spiritual potential it can no longer seek new vitality through an old paradigm of technical solutions. Reacting rapidly to problems, reengineering strategies, or rethinking our mental models are all necessary but no longer sufficient. Solutions to systemic problems lie at a much deeper level – at the level of our beliefs and habits. To truly find new ways to address long-held beliefs requires us to develop the collective will and spirit to change. To do this requires shared conversations, an open mind and heart, thinking creatively, and action at a much deeper level than we have been willing to undertake in the past. This will be the core work of the Meadowlark Lab Team.

from plainspeaking, June 2006
More information is at The Meadlowlark Project
and Prairie Business Magazine August 2005
The Meadowlark Project is funded by a $400,000 grant by The Bush Foundation to Northern Great Plains Inc. of Fargo.

Welcome to 56572. We hope you visit is productive.