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Session 1 Workshops
1) Ike's Principles: 11 Ways His Hertiage Influenced His Work and Life
Presenter:Ike Ikeda

Learn Tsuguo “Ike” Ikeda’s  11 principles from his book, Ike’s Principles: Significant Powers Within Each of Us.  His principles are based on Japanese cultural beliefs, and share a common theme of harnessing the power of the mind to overcome difficulties and obstacles in any area of life. The 11 principles guided Ike through his experience in the internment camps during World War II, his work with the Black Panther Party, and his tenure as Executive Director of Atlantic Street Center from 1953 to 1986.

2) Effective Communication Styles
Presenter: Linda Akutagawa, LEAP

Participants will be introduced to a 4-style leadership model and explore the strengths and weaknesses of each style.  This workshop will enlighten participants on how to leverage the strengths of their style of leadership as well as learn to work effectively with those of other styles.

3) Social Media: Engage Your Audience, Help Your Organization Stand out, and Be More Effective
Presenter: Christopher Fong, Education, Google

This interactive workshop will discuss how to utilize websites such as YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn to bring about change in your organization and community.

4) Work/Life Balance
Presenter: Freddie Barrett

Life balance is a continuum of roles, values and energy that varies from person to person.  People generally know when they are out of balance, but struggle to find their own emotional, physical, mental and spiritual equilibrium, particularly with today’s 24/7 pace.  This session focuses on the major categories of roles and values that comprise and influence our lives, and provides exercises, tools and discussions to help individuals make key deliberate choices to bring about the balance and alignment they seek.  Each Participant will develop a personalized action plan to improve work-life balance.  Perhaps of most value will be that Participants will work to define and craft a vision of themselves at their best that can guide their choices and tradeoffs as they maneuver through life’s opportunities and challenges for life balance. 

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1) Ike's Principles: 11 Ways His Hertiage Influenced His Work and Life
Presenter:Ike Ikeda

Learn Tsuguo “Ike” Ikeda’s  11 principles from his book, Ike’s Principles: Significant Powers Within Each of Us.  His principles are based on Japanese cultural beliefs, and share a common theme of harnessing the power of the mind to overcome difficulties and obstacles in any area of life. The 11 principles guided Ike through his experience in the internment camps during World War II, his work with the Black Panther Party, and his tenure as Executive Director of Atlantic Street Center from 1953 to 1986.

2)  The Power of Networking
Presenter: Uncle Bob

Do you hate networking? Feel that it is a stressful and false way to gain recognition and visibility.
Through this session, participants will explore networking as an enjoyable process of interacting
and building relationships with people to get things accomplished and to enrich our lives and those of others. Participants will find that networking will help build a sense of community and also
strengthen existing relationships and expand circle of friends.

3) Replanting the Seeds: New Grassroots Approaches to Funding Your Nonprofit
Presenters: TBA

With the economy still in the decline, nonprofits need to find creative and new ways to fundraise. In this workshop, participants will learn about different grassroots techniques in fundraising for their organiations from trainers who have had experience working with and in funding for nonprofits.

Another goal of this workshop is to provide a space to open up dialogue on the daunting issue of finding the money to stay in business, and to figure out what we can each do right now.

4) Work/Life Balance
Presenter:Freddie Barrett

Life balance is a continuum of roles, values and energy that varies from person to person.  People generally know when they are out of balance, but struggle to find their own emotional, physical, mental and spiritual equilibrium, particularly with today’s 24/7 pace.  This session focuses on the major categories of roles and values that comprise and influence our lives, and provides exercises, tools and discussions to help individuals make key deliberate choices to bring about the balance and alignment they seek.  Each Participant will develop a personalized action plan to improve work-life balance.  Perhaps of most value will be that Participants will work to define and craft a vision of themselves at their best that can guide their choices and tradeoffs as they maneuver through life’s opportunities and challenges for life balance. 

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