Agenda For Food Systems Summit

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Monday, June 13, 2022 – Day of Discovery

Morning Key tasks: Getting started, introducing AI and Community Capitals Framework, building relationships, beginning to discover the positive core through paired appreciative interviews

    8:15 AM Shuttles from Hotel to New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum (NMFRM)
    8:30–9:00 Registration and Artistic Presentation (Jazz Musician)
    9:00–9:15 Welcome, thank you to sponsors
    9:15–9:45 Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry, Community Capitals Framework, and Overview of four days
    9:45–10:00 Introduction to paired appreciative interviews
    10:00–11:45 Paired appreciative interviews are conducted (includes break)
    11:45–12:00 Process-level debriefing of paired interviews
    12:00–12:15 Overview: Conceptual underpinnings of AI (Alan)
    12:15–12:30 Email break
    12:30 –1:30 Lunch

Afternoon Key tasks: Small group team building, discovering and mapping the group’s positive core, beginning to make sense of the whole

    1:30–2:45 In table groups, share stories from the interviews and discover the positive core
    2:45–3:15 Table groups report out to the large group
    3:15–3:30 Break
    3:30–4:20 Plenary session
    4:20 –5:00 Museum tour with focus on innovations and their impacts
    5:30-7:00 Dinner
    7:00 Shuttles Depart NMFRM to Hotel

Tuesday, June 14, 2022 – Day of Dreaming

Morning Key tasks: Reflecting on learnings from previous day, understanding the positive image – positive action relationships for building a bold and creative resilient food system

    8:15 AM Shuttles from Hotel to New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum (NMFRM)
    8:30 – 9:00 Welcome, getting started – artistic presentation
    9:00 – 9:15 Explanation of day of dreaming in food networks
    9:15–10:00 Dream up two networks
    10:00–10:15 Break
    10:20–11:00 Envisioning the future of your resilient food networks
    11:00–11:30 Elevate your dream
    11:30 –12:00 Write dream statements in groups (on flip charts)

When finished, email break until lunch

    12:30 –1:30 Lunch

Afternoon Key tasks: Enacting and enriching the dreams

    1:30 – 2:00 Preparing creative and bold presentations of the dream
    2:00 –3:00 Performing creative presentations
    3:00–3:15 Break
    3:15 –4:00 Enriching the dreams (tour dream statement flip charts)
    4:00–4:45 Presentation to culminate dreaming
    4:45 – 5:00 Review of day and assign homework
    5:00 - 5:30 Artistic presentation (Dzaki Sukarno, Acoustic Guitar)
    5:30 - 7:00 Dinner
    7:00 Shuttles Depart NMFRM to Hotel
    Overnight – select (several) dream networks for Design phase –
    Prepare blank design possibility maps (number of networks depends on voting)

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 – Day of Design

Morning Key tasks: Reflecting on dreams from previous day, understanding importance of values-based design, identifying high potential design possibilities, selecting high impact design elements, crafting provocative propositions

    8:15 AM Shuttles from Hotel to New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum (NMFRM)
    8:30 - 9:00 Tour Animal Facilities
    9:00—10:00 Introduction to Community Capitals
    10:00–10:15 Break
    10:15 –11:00 Design possibility mapping (pp. 178–179)
    11:00– 11:20 Write provocative propositions
    11:20–12:30 Dream groups convene, compile individual provocative propositions into group propositions, and prepare a presentation of only one proposition
    12:30–1:45 Lunch and email time combined

Afternoon Key tasks: Enriching, integrating, and building commitment for the provocative propositions

    1:45–3:30 Small groups present the first draft of provocative propositions
    3:30–4:00 Small groups incorporate Summit comments into final provocation propositions
    4:00–4:45 Small groups present final version of provocative propositions, large group gives appreciative feedback
    4:45–5:00 Introduce Day 4 — Ways/Means for realizing provocative propositions
    5:00-5:30 Refreshments and Artistic Presentation (Jazz Musician)
    5:30-7:00 Dinner
    7:00 Shuttles depart NMFRM to hotel

Thursday, June 16, 2022 – Day of Destiny

Morning Key Tasks: Reflecting on learnings from previous day, understanding the importance of inspired action, formation of innovation teams

    8:15 AM Shuttles from Hotel to New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum (NMFRM)
    8:30–9:00 Welcome and Artistic Presentation
    9:00– 9:30 Overview of self-organizing process, formation of innovation teams, potential funding sources and scopes of projects, some for short-term successes and capacity building toward larger projects, including ERC opportunity
    9:30–10:45 Innovation teams meet, focus initiatives, select team leaders, create future plans
    10:45–11:15 Innovation teams presentations
    11:15–11:45 Plenary dialogue
    12:00-1:00 Conclusion and lunch
    1:15 Shuttles depart NMFRM to hotel