2008-09 Journey Navigators

Welcome To The Home of Journey Navigators

The most recent meeting of Navigator Teams @ The Lodge was a successful work session, helped tremendously by extended team members and guests from organizations as diverse as IYI, The Governors Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives and the California Youth Development Peer Network.

Documents from the February meeting can be found at the column to the right.  Specific team documents and links have their own sections, as well as a place for overall Navigator documents.  Pictures are linked in the left-hand column.

Upcoming Meeting and Event Dates
(all times EST)

3/26/09:  3pm-4:30pm  Celebrating YW Team Video Conference (ooVoo)

4/20/09:  8:30am-12pm     Credentialing YW Team Meeting @ the United Way Building, first floor Lilly Conference room (Indpls)

5/6/09:    1pm-3pm       Celebrating YW Team Video Conference (ooVoo)

6/10-12/09    YDPN Events / Retreat -- San Francisco, CA

10/7-9/09      All-Journey Retreat -- Country Lakes

For any questions or information about the documents, this site or the projects, please contact Journey Coordinator, Courtney Stepp (Courtney(at)thejourneyonline.org )

Work Session Details (Emailed Tues 2-17)

Hello Navigators!  

 I hope this email finds each of you in good spirits and company J As you already know we will be meeting February 26-27 to move forward on our Champions for Youth efforts. I just wanted to go through some logistics and ask for some information from you. Let’s go by day:

 If you would be interested in giving input on the June 10-12 trip to San Francisco there is a conference call tomorrow.  We would love to have your input on planning this trip so it best meets your needs.  Here is the information on that call – please join us.


Date: Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009
Time: 2:30pm (PST); 5:30pm (EST)
Conference Call Number:
(641) 678-3400
Code: 454#

Participants:

Jason Wyman, Youth Development Peer Network
Taylor Brady, California School Age Consortium
Sue Eldredge, Community Network for Youth Development
 
Thursday, February 26

We will be meeting at 6:30 PM for dinner at The Lodge at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church (100 West 86th Street, Indianapolis, 46260).  Jason Wyman of the Youth Development Peer Network in San Francisco, CA. will be joining us for dinner This is an opportunity to hear how a similar group of big thinkers are impacting the field of youth development on the West coast. Jason will also be our host when we travel to California in June.

Janet is opening her home to out-of-town Navigators who need a place to stay.  She can take care of 4 of you comfortably and we may need another Indianapolis Navigator to volunteer to open their home for one person.  Let us know if you need a place to stay on Thursday evening and we’ll get the arrangements made for you.

Friday, February 27

We will begin at 8:30am with breakfast and then move into our working session agenda. Our working session will take place in The Lodge at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church (100 West 86th Street, Indianapolis, 46260) Along with Jason Wyman, we’ve invited Judy Burnett to have lunch with the group to offer guidance in thinking about your next steps. Judy is an entrepreneur and owner of Judy Burnett Solutions – a marketing and public relations firm in the city. We are excited about adding your extended team members to this line-up. It should make for a dynamic day!

I need to know who your group is inviting to this working session. Please provide name, organization, phone and email address of each extended team member, along with when they’ll be with us (i.e. full day, after lunch, leaving before lunch, etc.)  We recommend your invited team members come for the morning and stay through lunch if possible.  Janet has made contact with IYI staff and hopefully we will have a IYI staff member for each team.  

We hope each of you talk with the people you are inviting to explain the purpose of this working meeting and help them understand the nature of the efforts we are taking on.

We are excited to be back together again to move this important work forward.  If you have anything in writing that you would like for us to run off, please get it to us early next week and don’t forget to get us the names of the people you have invited.

See you sooooonnn

Courtney

Working Session Update Email (Sent Mon 2-16)

Hello Navigators,

 

Although Courtney will follow with more details, here is an update about our upcoming meeting on Feb 26 and 27.

 

 

Feb 26

 

What: Dinner

Where: Indianapolis, restaurant to be confirmed

Who: JUST us Navigators AND Jason from similar network in California (probably one of our hosts when we’re out there)

Why: Reconnect as group, meet Jason, last minute conversation about the next day’s agenda

 

Feb 27

 

What: Work / Planning Session

Where: The Lodge @ St. Lukes  (just west of N. Meridian on 86^th Street)  The Lodge is at the back of the church parking lot.  Brian Durand calls it home

Who:  Navigators and extended team members you have invited to join your processes

Why:  Move the work forward, get inspired, get moving etc.

 

A loose agenda: 

 

8:30   Breakfast Food available

9:00   Welcome etc.

9:15   Have Jason set tone for day

10:00  Work in Teams

12:15  Lunch

1:15    Judy Burnette shapes thinking about next steps

2:00    Work in teams continues

4:30ish  Done for the day

 

 

The agenda will continue to develop.  Invite your people to the full day, or the morning session, depending on their availability.  Tell them this is a working session. 

 

We’ll need to know who all is coming, but you’ll hear from Courtney on that.

 

 

Tom