Presented at the 2013 New Bonner Directors and Coordinators Orientation.

1. Bonner Meetings
Your Toolbox for
Training, Reflection,
Management, and
Development

2. What We’ll Cover
• Why are meetings important?
• What kinds of meetings?
• Core Student Development frameworks
• Strategy:
• Training & Enrichment in BWBRS

3. Why are meetings
important?
• Bonner Student Impact and
Alumni Survey suggests that
the strongest elements of
program effectiveness are:
• dialogue across difference
• mentors (staff, peers, site
supervisors, & faculty)
• structured reflection
magnifies unstructured
reflection

4. Bonner
Wiki:
See
Research &
Assessment

5. Bonner Wiki: Research and Assessment
Prezi -
Engagement
Multiplied

6. Moreover, these
meetings:
• Build skills (i.e., project
management) and
knowledge (i.e., diversity)
needed to do best work in
communities
• Build a sense of belonging
—Bonner Love
• Promote accountability
• Foster campus-wide and
community connections
• Promote retention and
graduation

7. Class Meetings
- at least every other week
Cohort-based meetings for
each class year (or two, if
small program)
What kinds of meetings?
All Bonner Meetings
- every month
Engage the Common
Commitments, partners
and issues, broader
themes, and community

8. Cornerstone or Project Meetings
- occasionally
Preparation for service trips,
campus-wide events, Bonner
Congress, Bonner Leadership
Team
Other kinds of meetings...
Site Meetings by issue, team, or
cluster - every other week or
monthly —
engage students (& leaders) in
planning, project
management, & issue learning

9. Other kinds of meetings...
Campus-wide or National Events
Speaking events, faculty-led
sessions, IMPACT Conference,
national conferences... flavor
not main ingredient
Course-based Meetings - can
be used for Cohort or projects
You may choose to link training
& enrichment with credit-
bearing options, such as a first
year experience course or
third-year community based
research course

10. Resource Sharing
for Great Meetings

11. Semester Staff Student Leaders Community Partners
Summer Planning Orientation Participate in Orientation
Week 1 Model:
Lead Class Meeting
Rotate to visit sites
Lead Class Meeting
Lead All Bonner Meeting
Monthly rotation:
Meeting - by Class
Meeting - by Site
Meeting - by Class
All Bonner Meeting
Week 2
Model:
Lead Class Meeting
Rotate to visit sites
Lead Class Meeting
Lead All Bonner Meeting
Monthly rotation:
Meeting - by Class
Meeting - by Site
Meeting - by Class
All Bonner Meeting
Meet with team
Week 3
Model:
Lead Class Meeting
Rotate to visit sites
Lead Class Meeting
Lead All Bonner Meeting
Monthly rotation:
Meeting - by Class
Meeting - by Site
Meeting - by Class
All Bonner MeetingWeek 4
Model:
Lead Class Meeting
Rotate to visit sites
Lead Class Meeting
Lead All Bonner Meeting
Monthly rotation:
Meeting - by Class
Meeting - by Site
Meeting - by Class
All Bonner Meeting
Week 5
Model, then delegate:
Lead Class Meeting
Rotate to visit sites
Guest leads Class Meeting
Host partner at ABM
Monthly rotation:
Meeting - by Class
Meeting - by Site
Meeting - by Class
All Bonner Meeting
Week 6
Model, then delegate:
Lead Class Meeting
Rotate to visit sites
Guest leads Class Meeting
Host partner at ABM
Monthly rotation:
Meeting - by Class
Meeting - by Site
Meeting - by Class
All Bonner Meeting
Meet with team
Week 7
Model, then delegate:
Lead Class Meeting
Rotate to visit sites
Guest leads Class Meeting
Host partner at ABM
Monthly rotation:
Meeting - by Class
Meeting - by Site
Meeting - by Class
All Bonner MeetingWeek 8
Model, then delegate:
Lead Class Meeting
Rotate to visit sites
Guest leads Class Meeting
Host partner at ABM
Monthly rotation:
Meeting - by Class
Meeting - by Site
Meeting - by Class
All Bonner Meeting Speak at Bonner Meeting
Week 9 Model and delegate:
Lead Class Meeting
Rotate to visit sites
Intern leads Class Meeting
Coach BLT to lead ABM
Monthly rotation:
Meeting - by Class
Meeting - by Site
Meeting - by Class
All Bonner Meeting
Week 10
Model and delegate:
Lead Class Meeting
Rotate to visit sites
Intern leads Class Meeting
Coach BLT to lead ABM
Monthly rotation:
Meeting - by Class
Meeting - by Site
Meeting - by Class
All Bonner Meeting
Meet with team
Week 11
Model and delegate:
Lead Class Meeting
Rotate to visit sites
Intern leads Class Meeting
Coach BLT to lead ABM
Monthly rotation:
Meeting - by Class
Meeting - by Site
Meeting - by Class
All Bonner MeetingWeek 12
Model and delegate:
Lead Class Meeting
Rotate to visit sites
Intern leads Class Meeting
Coach BLT to lead ABM
Monthly rotation:
Meeting - by Class
Meeting - by Site
Meeting - by Class
All Bonner Meeting
Week 13 Lead Class Meeting Meeting - by Class
Week 15 End-semester CelebrationEnd-semester CelebrationEnd-semester Celebration
Have a mix of meetings each semester...

12. Student Development
Frameworks
• The result of network-wide
input, program design and
innovation, decades of
experimentation, and
assessment
•Common
Commitments
•Skills
•Knowledge Areas

13. Common Commitments
Community Building
Diversity
International Perspective
Social Justice
Spiritual
Exploration
Civic
Engagement

14. Skills and Capacities
Personal
• Active listening
• Balance &
boundaries
• Communication
• Decision
making
• Organization
• Planning
• Time
management
• Goal setting Professional
• Budgeting
• Event planning
• Fundraising
• Grant writing
• Marketing
• Mediation
• Networking
• Public education
and advocacy
• Volunteer
management
Leadership
• Conflict resolution
• Delegation
• Planning
• Public speaking
• Running a meeting
• Teamwork
• Working with diverse
groups

15. Knowledge Areas
Place
Politics and Public Policy
Power &and Privilege
Poverty and Economic
DevelopmentIssues

16. • 3 strategies can
yield a rich array of
training & enrichment
events for all of
your Bonners
How to create a
meeting calendar

17. Strategy 1
Build around learning
outcomes

18. Download
rubrics
from
aacu.org

19. Diversity of communities and cultures...
Year 1
Sense of
identity and
knowledge
of
community
Self
Year 4
Knowledge
and
navigating
complex
community
and
institutional
environment
Nation,
world
Year 2
Teamwork in
diverse
communities;
focus on
gender, race,
& ethnicity
Team
Year 3
Power and
privilege;
being an ally;
more complex
issues
Campus and
community

20. Resource Development
Year 1
Understanding
Bonner funds;
using
community
fund
Budgeting
Year 4
Being a
social
entrepreneur
Initiating
resource
development
campaigns
Year 2
Understanding
non-profit
funding
Fundraising
events
(planning,
leading)
Year 3
Helping your
site or
community to
increase its
resource base
Grant writing;
Making
personal asks

21. In a nutshell, decide 4-6 learning
outcomes for each year
Year 1
Place-based
knowledge
Active listening
Budgeting
Goal setting
Organizational
skills
Reflection
Time
management
Year 4
Politics and
public policy
Decision
making
Evaluation/
research
Marketing and
public relations
Networking
Public
education and
advocacy
Public
speaking
Year 2
Knowledge of
poverty (and
economic
development)
Balance &
boundaries
Conflict
resolution &
mediation
Planning
Teamwork
Resource
development and
fundraising
events
Year 3
Power and
privilege (dealing
with isms)
Delegation
Event planning
Facilitation
Fundraising and
grant writing
Planning and
running a meeting
Volunteer
management and

22. Remember these also link to positions,
leadership roles, &and cornerstones
Year 1
Place-based
knowledge
Active listening
Budgeting
Goal setting
Organizational skills
Reflection
Time management
First Year
Seminar
First Year
Trip
Year 4
Politics and public
policy research
Decision making
Evaluation/research
Marketing and public
relations
Networking
Public education and
advocacy
Public speaking
Capstone
Course
Site Leadership
Roles
Year 2
Knowledge of poverty (and
economic development)
Balance & boundaries
Conflict resolution &
mediation
Planning
Teamwork
Resource development and
fundraising events
Second Year
Exchange
Learning
Community
Year 3
Power and privilege (dealing
with isms)
Delegation
Event planning
Facilitation
Fundraising and grant writing
Planning and running a
meeting
Volunteer management and
project leadership
BLT!
Site Leadership
International Trip
Research Course

23. Find relevant
trainings on the
Bonner Wiki under
Trainings, Common
Commitments or
Student Handbook

24. Each training
module is a full
lesson plan, with
activities and
handouts

25. Strategy 2
- page 13
Use and create a
training calendar
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Areas of
knowledge &
commitments
to emphasize
for the year
• Knowledge of self and ability to
reflect
• Knowledge of
community
• Exploration of
diversity
• Community building
• Introduction to civic engagement
• Analysis of diversity
• Knowledge of
poverty
• Understanding of place and
ability to think critically around
community
• Introduction to forms of civic
engagement
• Multiple forms of civic engagement
• International perspective
• Critical thinking &
systems analysis (understanding root
causes)
• Leadership skills and application
through practice
• Exploration of social justice
• Vocation and career
exploration/preparation
• Spiritual exploration
• Connection to academic study
(capstone/thesis)
Skills
distribution
• Active listening
• Communication
• Goal setting
• Organization
• Reflection
• Time management
• Understanding of place and
community assets
• Balance &
boundaries
• Budgeting
• Conflict resolution
• Facilitation
• Project planning
• Teamwork
• Understanding an issue
(choose focus)
• Delegation
• Project management
• Volunteer management
• Event planning
• Fundraising & grant writing
• Planning & running a
meeting
• Understanding root causes and
systemic solutions
• Decision making
• Evaluation and program
assessment
• Marketing &
public relations
• Career Networking
• Public education and advocacy
(i.e., town meeting)
• Public speaking
Types of
roles and
placements
• Exploration:
learning about
issues;
learning about the community;
discovering one’s passions and talents
• Settling into primary site and position
• Experience:
commitment to an issue,
agency/site, and place
• Expanded position and
responsibility, such as
coordination, organization, and
planning
• Example:
Project coordinator or leader role;
managing of project or volunteers
• Expanded leadership roles in the
Bonner
Program or at sites
• Capacity building service positions
• Expertise:
Planning team or specialist;
project or site leadership
• Capacity building
service positions
• May link to academic major,
minor, certificate, or
coursework
High-Impact
Civic
Engagement
• FirstYear Seminars
• FirstYear Trips
• Learning
Communities
• SecondYear
Exchange
• Learning
Communities
• Service-Learning
• ThirdYear Leadership
• International /Global Immersions
• Undergraduate Research
• Policy Research / Issue Briefs
• Senior Capstone Courses and
Research Projects
• Policy Research / Issue Briefs
Courses • Lead-in Course (such as Service-
Learning 101 or issue oriented)
• Poverty / Economic
Development
• Research Methods (CBR)
• Policy / Democratic Engagement
(internship)
• International Course
• Capstone / Individually or
Problem- or Issue-Focused
Research
Bonner Sample Calendar - Developmental Training Sequence

26. Bonner Sample Calendar - page 14
Developmental Model Training Calendar
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
August • Orientation
covering Bonner 101, community
partner introductions,
community/team building
• Games, Games, Games Galore &
Icebreakers
• Identity Circles:A Personal
Exploration of Diversity
• Back-to-school refresher;
have students engage in your
Bonner Program social
media, Facebook,Wiki, etc.
• Setting Service Objectives (at
higher level; tied to CLA)
• Introduction to Civic
Engagement
• Engage juniors in helping plan
and run Orientation
• Have students engage in your
Bonner Program social media,
Facebook,Wiki, etc.
• PersonalVision activity or
Cover Story
• Engage senior in helping plan
and run Orientation & Training
Calendar
• Have students engage in your
Bonner Program social media,
Facebook,Wiki, etc.
• Nail down senior year
capstones
• BHAGs: Setting Big Hairy
Audacious Goals
September • Professionalism and Expectations
• Community
Building Challenge Course
• Developing an Action Plan
• Budgeting (involve presenter
from campus/community)
• Leading Learning
Circles: A Train-the-Trainers
Approach
• Bridging the Gap Between
Service,Activism, and Politics
• Hearing the Call: Listening to
Your InnerVoice
• Vocation: Board of Directors
October • Community Asset Mapping (fully
done to include campus assets)
• Time Management: Managing by
Calendar
• Introduction to Effective
Communication: DoYou
Hear Me?
• Advocacy 101:Tools for
Political Engagement
• Facilitation 202: More
Techniques and
Strategies
• Get-Out-the-Vote
• Introduction to Spiritual
Exploration
• Evaluation and Program
Assessment (involve faculty or
non-profit leader as presenter)
November • Goal-Setting:
Setting Service Goals &
Objectives
• Time Management Follow Up
(use planners & BWBRS)
• Conflict Resolution: Steps for
Handling Interpersonal
Dynamics
• Facilitation 101: Roles of
Effective Facilitators
• Action Planning
• Building Coalitions
• Grant Writing or Fundraising
workshop (involve a staff
member from local agency or
development office)
• Tuesdays with Morrie Book
Reading and Discussion
• SharedVisioning Activity
December • Service-Based Reflection: How It
Supports Making Service
Meaningful
• Global Poverty (integrate
lesson plan from Oxfam
America or other source)
• Vocation:“The Bridge Builder”
poem and reflective discussion
• Retreat for Seniors to begin
focusing on their final term
December/
January
• A Mid-Year Bonner Retreat should integrate:
• Community building (move diversity workshops from other areas or add new ones)
• Common Commitments (use Bonner Wiki videos from STUDENT HANDBOOK LIVE! and new modules)
• Reflection & visioning
• Recommended trainings include: Cover Story, Four Corners, River Stories, Leadership Compass,Vocational Discernment workshops,
Diversity Trainings (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc.)
• A Mid-Year Bonner Retreat should integrate:
• Community building (move diversity workshops from other areas or add new ones)
• Common Commitments (use Bonner Wiki videos from STUDENT HANDBOOK LIVE! and new modules)
• Reflection & visioning
• Recommended trainings include: Cover Story, Four Corners, River Stories, Leadership Compass,Vocational Discernment workshops,
Diversity Trainings (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc.)
• A Mid-Year Bonner Retreat should integrate:
• Community building (move diversity workshops from other areas or add new ones)
• Common Commitments (use Bonner Wiki videos from STUDENT HANDBOOK LIVE! and new modules)
• Reflection & visioning
• Recommended trainings include: Cover Story, Four Corners, River Stories, Leadership Compass,Vocational Discernment workshops,
Diversity Trainings (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc.)
• A Mid-Year Bonner Retreat should integrate:
• Community building (move diversity workshops from other areas or add new ones)
• Common Commitments (use Bonner Wiki videos from STUDENT HANDBOOK LIVE! and new modules)
• Reflection & visioning
• Recommended trainings include: Cover Story, Four Corners, River Stories, Leadership Compass,Vocational Discernment workshops,
Diversity Trainings (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc.)

27. Bonner Sample Calendar - page 15
Developmental Model Training Calendar
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
January • Vocation:“Dead Poet’s Society” film
clip
• River Stories
• Develop a “Book Club” that
integrates stories about “place” such
as the neighborhoods in which you
work; offer extra training &
enrichment time for participation
• Four Corners: Building
Appreciation for Diverse
Ideas and Dialogue
• Advocacy & Lobbying
101
• Citizenship: Rights,
Responsibilities &
Struggles or Introduction
to Social Justice (similar)
• Leadership Compass or
Meyers-Briggs/Work
Style Inventory
• FindingYourVocational
Fit Worksheet
• Resume Writing &
Interviewing Skills
February • Fishbowl Discussion: DefiningYour
Communities
• Research related to FirstYear Trip
(delegate roles to students)
• Building a Personal
Network
• Resume writing
workshop (integrate staff
from Career Services)
• Power Mapping
• Advocacy 201: Meeting
with an Elective
Representative
• Public Speaking
• Preparation for Senior
Presentations of Learning
March • Groups Within Groups: Exploring
Dimensions of Diversity
• Gender 1: Building
Gender Awareness
• Facilitation 201:An
Intensive Introduction
• Gender 2: Deepening
Gender Awareness
• Building Career
Networks
• Exploring Non-Profit
Careers
• Seeing Through
Employers’ Eyes: Group
Resume Game
• Senior Resume Review
April • Racism: Deconstructing It
• Introduction to the Non-Profit Sector
(in preparation for summer)
• Planning Effective
Meetings
• Ethnocentrism:
Exploring & Tackling It
• Vocation: The Two
Choices
• Homophobia:
Countering It
• Preparing a Leadership
Transition
• Want Ads: have students
write one to replace
themselves
May • Tower of “Me”sa Spiritual & Personal
Exploration
• Vocation: Guided
Reflections for the
Sophomore
Recommitment
• Vocation:“So What do
you do?” personal
exploration exercise
• Submission of Senior
Presentations of Learning
• Last Words: a Reflection
on My Bonner Journey
June • Review trainings and customize plan.
• Review other modules, such as on international perspective and poverty, using links on Wiki.
• Plan your own trainings & plug them in!
• Review trainings and customize plan.
• Review other modules, such as on international perspective and poverty, using links on Wiki.
• Plan your own trainings & plug them in!
• Review trainings and customize plan.
• Review other modules, such as on international perspective and poverty, using links on Wiki.
• Plan your own trainings & plug them in!
• Review trainings and customize plan.
• Review other modules, such as on international perspective and poverty, using links on Wiki.
• Plan your own trainings & plug them in!
July
• Review trainings and customize plan.
• Review other modules, such as on international perspective and poverty, using links on Wiki.
• Plan your own trainings & plug them in!
• Review trainings and customize plan.
• Review other modules, such as on international perspective and poverty, using links on Wiki.
• Plan your own trainings & plug them in!
• Review trainings and customize plan.
• Review other modules, such as on international perspective and poverty, using links on Wiki.
• Plan your own trainings & plug them in!
• Review trainings and customize plan.
• Review other modules, such as on international perspective and poverty, using links on Wiki.
• Plan your own trainings & plug them in!

28. Fall 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year
Orientation Bonner 101 & Community
Partner 101
Introduction to Civic Engagement Learning Circle
BHAGs: Setting Big Hairy
Audacious Goals
Week 1 Issue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team Meetings
Week 2 Overview of the Civic
Engagement Center and Campus
Action Planning
Leading Learning Circles: A Train-
the-Trainers Approach
Hearing the Call: Listening to
Your InnerVoice
Week 3 All Bonner MeetingAll Bonner MeetingAll Bonner MeetingAll Bonner Meeting
Week 4 Professionalism and Expectations Budgeting
Bridging the Gap Between
Service,Activism, and Politics
Vocation: Board of Directors
Week 5 Issue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team Meetings
Week 6
Community Asset Mapping
Community Partner presents
schools issues
Intro to Effective
Communication: DoYou Hear
Me?
Facilitation 202: More Techniques
and Strategies
Introduction to Spiritual
Exploration
Week 7 Issue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team Meetings
Week 8
Faculty member presents
classroom management
techniques
Advocacy 101:Tools for Political
Engagement
Get-Out-the-Vote Evaluation
Week 9 All Bonner MeetingAll Bonner MeetingAll Bonner MeetingAll Bonner Meeting
Week 10
Goal-Setting Setting Service
Objectives
Conflict Resolution: Steps for
Handling Interpersonal Dynamics
Building Coalitions: Part 1 Tuesdays with Morrie Discussion
Week 11 Issue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team Meetings
Week 12
Time Management: Managing by
Calendar Follow Up—students
bring planners
Facilitation 101: Roles of Effective
Facilitators
Building Coalitions (part 2:
application for campus project) or
Grant Writing
PersonalVision: Creating One
Week 13 Issue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team MeetingsIssue/Site Team Meetings
Week 14 Service-Based Reflection Group feedback session
Vocation:“The Bridge Builder”
poem and reflective discussion
PersonalVision 2: Follow up &
Building SharedVision
Week 15 All Bonner MeetingAll Bonner MeetingAll Bonner MeetingAll Bonner Meeting
In this example, we
modify the first year
by engaging partner
and faculty reps.

29. Fill in with other
enrichment opportunitiesStrategy 3
Student-led Faculty-led Partner-led

30. Capstone or
Integrative Seminar
Capstone or
Integrative Seminar
Courses (many disciplines)
with Full-time
Internships
Courses (many disciplines)
with Full-time
Internships
Bridge Coursework:
Methodology, Service-Learning,
CBR, or Research
Bridge Coursework:
Methodology, Service-Learning,
CBR, or Research
Policy/
Political
Analysis
Poverty/
Economic
Analysis
Global/
International
Awareness
Lead-in or
Gateway Course
Lead-in or
Gateway Course
Academic Journey

31. Colorado College Certificate or Thematic Minor in Civic Engagement
Concord University Minor in Civic Engagement
Lynchburg College Minor in Civic Engagement
Mars Hill College Certificate in Civic Engagement (Co-curricular Transcript)
Morehouse College Minor in Civic Engagement
Portland State University Minor in Civic Leadership
Rutgers University Certificate in Women’s Leadership
Saint Mary’s College of CA Justice and Community Minor
The College of NJ Concentration in Civic Engagement
University of Alaska Certificate in Civic Engagement
UCLA Minor in Civic Leadership
Wagner College Certificate in Civic Engagement
Washington & Lee Univ. Minor in the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty
West Chester University Honors Program (Civic Engagement focus)
Learn from campuses across USA

32. Training &
Enrichment in BWBRS
• Every workshop, meeting,
and eligible opportunity can
be added into BWBRS so
that, yes, students log it!
• a way to track
learning; a portfolio
• a way to view
intentionality
• program oversight

33. Sample Class Meeting

34. Sample All Bonner Meeting

35. Sample Faculty-Led Meeting

36. This student attended 41 events since between August-
April, totaling 140.5 hours in training (- plus courses!

37. What’s on your worksheet
•Discuss your meeting structure
•Brainstorm learning outcomes
•Study and apply the Bonner Training
Calendar
•Understand how to write up a training
event