From July 13-16, 2010 in Tiburon, California, Campus Compact, in partnership with California Campus Compact, will welcome seasoned practitioners and a team of distinguished facilitators to explore the future of the service-learning and civic and community engagement movement through Diving Deep: Campus Compact’s Institute for Experienced Civic and Community Engagement Practitioners.

Diving Deep will provide a stimulating community of diverse voices in which participants — through both deliberate searching and accidental discovery — will explore unknown territories, bring to the surface their own assumptions and come to an understanding on a deeper, more personal level of what it means to be a part of this field during this defining moment in time. Diving Deep offers a professional development opportunity to support seasoned practitioners in influencing their campus and contributing to advancing the movement on the local, state and national levels. The institute will engage participants in the exploration of cutting edge issues in service-learning and civic and community engagement in higher education, in a supportive, challenging and participatory environment among national peers.

Diving Deep participants will have the opportunity to:

• Create and deeply engage in an inclusive learning community in which their experiences are honored and their challenging questions are explored;
• Reflect on the gifts and passion they bring to this work, and affirm their commitment to the field;
• Expand their leadership capacity to sustain and grow service-learning and civic and community engagement in their institutions and in the field;
• Learn tools and strategies to strengthen their ability to foster and deepen their campus’s engagement with communities;
• Explore many of the tensions and challenges inherent in the work;
• Envision and strategize how they can help shape the future of the field;
• Develop an individual action plan to share their learning and further the work on their campuses and beyond; and
• Relax and rejuvenate in a setting filled with natural beauty.

For a list of participants in the 2010 Diving Deep program, click here.

For additional information, contact Piper McGinley at California Campus Compact. Email: piper(a)cacampuscompact.org. Phone: 415-405-7577.