Rockwood Leadership Program 2008 Fellowship in Media, Communications, and Information Policy

The Fellowship, launched in 2006 as a three-year initiative, is a community learning process for leaders, based on Gandhi’s idea that "We must be the change we want to see in the world." The goals of the program are to support current and emerging leaders, with experience in media policy advocacy, research, organizing, and media production to move to the next level of personal and collective effectiveness.

The program is designed to be an experiential learning experience and requires a significant level of commitment on the part of participants.

The Fellowship supports a diverse community of leaders to:
• Create, communicate and sustain a compelling, ambitious and credible vision for social change within their organization and field;
• Diagnose and deal more effectively with major leadership and organizational challenges such as mission drift, lack of organizational alignment, and low accountability for performance;
• Create healthier coalitions and organizational cultures that value and celebrate difference;
• Be far more skillful in their use of personal power, creating more and consistent results with less effort.

Fellows participate in:
The Art of Leadership Training: an intensive four day seminar that supports leaders from many different progressive social change issue areas to create compelling, ambitious, and credibile visions for their organizations and deal more effectively with major leadership challenges.

Advanced Training and Dialogue Retreat: A multi-day convening of Fellows that provides advanced training in leadership and collaboration and an opportunity to build relationship and partnership to strengthen the field.

Ongoing leadership support: Each fellow receives professional coaching, course materials, web-based resources and collaboration-oriented consultation as requested.

Participation in the Fellowship Program requires the submission of a written application. The Art of Leadership seminars occur multiple times a year, and admission to the Fellowship Program will be rolling until the class is full.

The deadline for applications is February 28, 2008.

Visit the Rockwood Leadership Program's website Rockwoodleadership.org to learn more about the organziation, this and other programs. To apply or nominate a leader, contact Fellowship Director Stacy Kono.

You can download an application form below.