Good morning!
8:00 - 9:00 AM | Carter Center | Ivan Allen Foyer | Light breakfast
What to do: When arriving at the Carter Center, please enter through the Ivan Allen Pavilion Main entrance. As you enter the Carter Center's parking lots, this entrance is furthest to the right. A light breakfast, hot coffee, cold juice, and new friends will be waiting for you. If you arrive after 9:00, please take your nametag and join us in the Chapel. Thank you for cleaning up after your meal.
Session 1: Looking back to look ahead
9:00 - 10:15 AM | Carter Center | Cecil B. Day Chapel
Our community of practice has done some amazing things over the past 15 years. But many of the people that remember that history have moved on since the last big Summit in 2019. Two people that were at the first of our conferences in 2011 reflect on what they've seen, and the moment we find ourselves in now.
What to do: Make yourself comfortable in the Chapel.
Session 2: Stop, collaborate, and listen
10:30 - 12:00 PM | Carter Center | Cecil B. Day Chapel
In this session we will take time to help each ourselves and each other through reflective practice. Working in small groups, everyone will have the chance to introduce themselves, and to name some challenges they are navigating. With a bit of guidance and in partnership with each other, we'll then take on some collective problem solving.
What to do: Gather in the Chapel, and instructions will be provided.
Lunch!
12:00 - 1:00 PM | Carter Center | Ivan Allen Foyer | Lunch buffet
What to do: Lunch will be served in the Foyer. Food can be eaten in the Foyer or taken into the Cecil B. Day Chapel, but please do clean up after your meal.
Move to Carter Center Commons
1:00 - 1:15 PM | Carter Center | Ivan Allen Foyer
What to do: Please gather in the Foyer area so that we can move through the Carter Center to areas known as the Rotunda and Commons. When moving through and meeting in those spaces, please be aware that these are common spaces for Carter Center staff. Once in the Commons, choose one of four clusters of seats for small group discussion.
Session 3: How a shared space might support you (and others)
1:15 - 2:00 PM | Carter Center | Rotunda/Commons
In Session 2 we drew out the challenges that individuals are working through and brainstormed supports that might help. In this session we'll elicit the kind of supports that people would like to expect from our shared space. What we hear in this session will serve as a guide as we consider what kinds of activities and services are top priorities for our community of practice over the next year.
What to do: Join one of four small group conversations and follow the lead of the designated facilitator and note-taker.
Session 4: On belonging
2:15 - 3:30 PM | Carter Center | Rotunda/Commons
Help us all get to the heart of what brings us together, and provide guidance about how we might do that better. We have several questions to stimulate discussion:
- What made you feel you should come to this meeting? What are the unique things you expected to share in common with other attendees?
- Who else would you like to see here?
- What about this space makes you feel either particularly welcome or uncertain about belonging?
- Where do you see potential additional barriers for others?
- What steps might we take based on what is discussed here?
What we hear in this session will directly inform Session 6 on Tuesday morning.
What to do: Choose a different group (or at least a different chair) than the previous session, and follow the lead of the designated facilitator and note-taker.
Session 5: Science Events Showcase
3:45-5:00 PM | Carter Center | Cecil B. Day Chapel
Enjoy presentations from a event and festival organizers about something that has them fired up, either from the past year or in planning for next year.
What to do: Make yourself comfortable in the Chapel.
Dinner!
6:30-9:30 PM | The Atrium @ Ponce City Market | Dinner
What to do: Make your way to the Food Hall level of the Ponce City Market, which features many local Atlanta vendors. We’ll have a variety of food stations to choose from throughout the evening, so please arrive at whatever time is comfortable for you (of course, you know what they say about the early bird).
It is a 5-minute walk from Hotel Clermont along Ponce De Leon Avenue to the Food Hall entrance to the Market that brings you to The Atrium. Ride shares are likely to drop you off at another entrance: simply take elevators to the Food Hall level. Driving and parking instructions can be found here.