Conversations A (Monday 10:15-11:35 am) 80 minutes

1. Leveraging Church…to get things done in the world (Mapping; Structure)
- What are a few concrete examples of leveraging church for a broader social good?
- Where can you leverage church for good? Where does this fall short?
- Why do particular efforts succeed, what are the factors?
- Where do we desire to leverage church for good? How can we imagine that happen into the future?
- What are the changes in the nature of doing church that will affect how we do this into the future?

2. Healthcare Delivery (Mapping; Execution)
- What are the major efforts to shift the health care delivery systems, where are the gaps and where are the possibilities?
- What are the innovative models?
- Where do we see a sea change? Where can we get the most leverage?
- What is causing the most friction?
- What are the levers for change?

3. Balancing Profits and Social Good (Naming; Structuring)
- What models work? How do you build a corporate structure that enables you to have more than profits as your objective?
- How do you make this work for yourself… in your own life?
- What does this look like when it is working?
- What language makes make sense? Where are the barriers and opportunities in current language?  What are all the ways this is described?
- How do you describe yourself as participating in this broader objective? How do you talk to friends, family, co-workers about your choices?

4. Products for Good (Mapping. Execution)
- What elements are lining up in the world to make this possible?  What’s changing in the capital markets, distribution, branding… what’s changing to create a fertile environment for these products?
- What working and what’s not working in this world?
- What gets it to scale?
- What blocks do we run into?
- What talent is needed, where is it coming from?

Conversations Group B (Monday 1:30-2:20 pm) 50 minutes

1. Celebrities and Social Change (Inviting; structure)
- What is the goal? What are the possibilities?
- What is the invitation to celebrities to participate in this world? Who should be doing the inviting?
- How do we bridge what are foreign worlds of social change advocates and celebrities?
- How do we align economic and other incentives?
- How do you make the connection work, make the connection real?
- What is an authentic invitation to a celebrity? How do people in the social change world learn how to make those invitations?
- What is the responsibility of the celebrity in the relationship?

2. Risk Taking (Naming Invitation)
- What is the value of risk? What is it good for?
- How do our values shape the risks we take?
- How do we think risks in an ethics frame? When do we need to step out of an ethics (right and wrong) frame?
- How do you engage others to take risks with you?
- When is shared risk appropriate? When do you need to own your own risk?
- When you are deep in your own risk, or your organization’s, risk how that change your relationships with others.

3. Storytelling: Narrative Structure applied to social change (Structure; Naming)
- What is the power of stories?
- How are stories told? What are the different perspectives?
- How do stories work in social change?
- What is the opportunity here? How do stories change the world? And how can we shape that intentionally?

4. Domestic Support for International Development Work (Invitation. Structure)
- What are the organizational models domestically?
- How do we engage people to think globally? As a first step and have sustained commitment to global work?
- What changes about us if we are engaged domestically in international issues?
- How do we do this work hospitably?  …so we’re not the white horse riding into the world. - What does learning look like in this space?
Who has models for sustained learning communities, domestically, focused internationally? How do we sustain learning communities that are truly global?

5. Women & Leadership (Invitation; Mapping)
- How do we invite women into leadership? What are the invitations women are extending to each other, and how are these changing.
- What are the systems that are aligning to enable new forms of leadership?

6. Organizing unorganized human capital (Structure, Invitation)
- What are the elements that are required to make it, what is needed to start, ad what is needed to scale?
- What can we learn from theory of networks or our understanding of community
- What is the economics of organizing? Who pays? The organizer who needs the human capital or the humans who desire to be organized.

7. Christian Higher Education (Invitation; Execution)
- What is happening in Christian Higher education that is delighting you?
- How is Christian higher education forming alliances with other societal structures? How do we strengthen those connections?
- What does Christian higher education, have to offer the world… and how should they present that offer?
(and just have fun talking)

Conversations Group C (Monday 2:45-4:15) 80 minutes

1. Insights & Reflections on the Global Economy (Mapping. Naming)
- How do we understand the trends the friction the new possibilities?
- What’s the best resource for understanding the global economy?
- How do we make sense of various perspectives?
- When we simply the complex, what helps? When should we resist oversimplification?
- How are capital markets redefining themselves? What are the forces in that?
- How do we describe the new ills and the new opportunities?
- What are the levers of change? What should we watch for in the larger system?
- How do we think about unintended consequences in a vast complex system? What helps thinking about that?

2. Christian Bridges: Politics & Churches (Inviting. Execution)
- Who is doing the inviting?
- What structures are making this work these days? What are the new organizations working to make dialogues work?
- What does this effort have to offer other social change efforts?
- What do those organizations providing that is helping? Asking questions, facilitating?
- Has there been a change in the guard or is this the same players.
- Towards what end? What’s at stake in whether this works?

3. Tools of Community Development (Execution; Naming)
- What really is working, right now?
- How contextual is this work, or are there transferable models? What have learned about this?
- Where is the power in the language of community development?
- Organizing models. Where is there a new commitment, new energy?
- What feels the most contemporary, the most relevant?
- Where does it feel antiquated?

4. The Stories of Money (Naming Mapping)
- What are our stories of money?
- What are the narrative forms that are emerging? How are the archetypal stories changing?
- What are the influences on these stories?
- What is nature of the power in these stories? What possibilities do they create?
- Who is telling these stories, who do they imagine they are talking to?
- Where are the unconscious, dominant narratives?
- How can these stories be fulcrums of change?
- How are new stories creating new systems?

5. Nonprofit Management (Mapping; Execution)
- What are the forces shaping the management of nonprofits?
- Where is the greatest lever for change?
- What are the rewards for improved management? Are sticks and carrots aligned to desired outcomes?
- What creates change at a tactical level, with real organization and real managers?
- Where is there tactical excellence? What does it look like? How do we know it if we see it?
- What has been the tangible impact of metrics driven accountability?
- How do we measure the impact of better management?

6. The Social Purpose of Music  (Invitation; Naming)
- What is the invitation that music offers? Who is listening? What are they hearing?
- What are the trends? Where is there transformation at work?
- Who is shepherding the next generation of music and musicians?
- What is the relationship between the musician, the music and the industry?

Conversation Group D (Tuesday 9:30 – 10:50 am) 80 minutes

1. Chicks Launching Things (Naming; Execution)
- What does it mean to be a woman launching a venture? How does that shape identity?
- What are the practices that work? What were the three most important things you did this year?
- How is it different to be part of something established versus part of something in formation? What changes about how you talk about it?
- How do we make partnerships and collaborations work?
- Is their a particular style of leadership that is effective?

2. Scaling Social Projects & Scaling Alternative Ideas (Mapping Naming)
- What are the ideas around the table that we can imagine?
- How does a single idea fit within a larger system?
- How do define the alternative in a broader system of dominant ideas?
- How does a single idea shape a market? How do you build a new market where one doesn’t exist?
- What is different about scaling social ideas, versus alternative commercial product?
- What is the tipping point between when alternate becomes accepted? How do you know when you’ve hit that?
- What are the risks in scaling? What if it’s not the same idea/model at scale?

3. New Philanthropy and Development Practices of the future (Invitation; Structure)
- How new is new philanthropy? What’s new?
- What are the effective models for raising money? What is happening to campaigns? What is happening to direct appeals? What’s happening to major gifts? Where are foundations?
- How do you raise growth capital?
- Do we need to change structures to reflect new demands from philanthropy?
- What motivates big money?
- What do we know about how to make asks in this new environment?

4. End of Life (Naming; Mapping)
- How do we understand the choices at the end of life?
- What are the structures that support families as they deal with end of life issues? Where are the gaps?
- How does thinking about the end of life issues create possibilities and hope?
- How are culture shift affecting the process of dying?
- Where does our culture fail and where does offer promise?

5. Organizational Models that Support Leadership (Structure; Execution)
- What does it actually look like to support leadership?
- Are we really supporting something other than leadership? 
- What does leadership need?
- How do you build an organization that builds leadership?
- What is new that is working in organizations that build leadership? What should we be learning from?
- What is it about the structure, the program, the interaction that creates generates or inspires leadership?

6. Dramatic Transitions to Follow Purpose (Naming; Execution)
- How do we tell the story of our decision to change our life?
- How do we imagine the point around the bend of the transition? Imagining the life after the transition?
- Where does the strength come from?
- What’s required for this transition? What’s the real cost?
- How freely, really, can we choose?  Is this privilege?
- How can we enable others to find their purpose/passion and live it out?

7. Political Campaigns and the Future (Mapping; structure)
- What are the forces requiring political campaigns to change?
- What are the tangible changes that have happened in the last 10 years? What do you anticipate in the next 10?
- What do these changes make possible? What do they prevent?
- You have permission to talk politics. What should political parties do? What is needed for real election in 2008?
- What’s happening that’s hopeful? What should be stopped at all cost?

Conversation Group E (Tuesday 11:00 – 11:50 am) 50 minutes

1. New Media and Social Change (Execution; Structure)
- What is the real scope of new/alternative media? What makes it work? And what can it accomplish?
- Does it look different if the goal is social change?
- What’s noise and what’s really having an impact?
- What are the most effective strategies?
- What does it take to do media ventures outside the mainstream, really?

2. Social Investing (Structure; Execution)
- What’s being innovated right now?
- What are the proven practices? Where does what is proven need to be blown up again?
- What needs to be invented next? What are the gaps?
- Where are the pressure points in execution? What makes it hard to do this right?
- What will all of this create in the world? What will the capital markets look like if the movement is successful?

3. Balance: where do we find it, how does it work? (Naming; Execution)
- Each of you in this conversation asked to talk about balance in answering our question. What does balance mean to you. How do you name it in your life and in your relationships?
- What are you doing to achieve it?
Enjoy.

4. Church Money (Structure; Invitation)
- Where is it, what does it look like?
- How do you talk to it?
- What does church money need? What are their requirements? How do they understand those? In their own language how would they describe them?
- Based on understanding the nature of church money and its purpose, how do conversations begin? What will spur action and decision?
- If church money really came into play in social investing, what would change in the social investing world?

5. Sacred Arts (Naming; Invitation)
- How is the sacred represented in a postmodern society?
- Who is drawn to it and why? How does it engage?
- What is the offer of sacred arts to society?
- What is language that translates sacred arts into broader cultural context?

6. The Wonders of Family (Naming; Mapping )
- What makes a family? What makes it magical? What compels us, what draws us into these complex, dynamic structures?
- What sustains families? What puts stress on families?
- Is it the idea of family or the day to day that makes it work?
- What is changing in the nature of families?

Conversation Group F (Tuesday 2:00 – 3:00pm) 50 minutes

1. 3rd/3rd: Planning to thriving in the next chapter (Execution; Mapping)
- What does it take to plan this stage of life?
- What do we do with our gifts in this stage?
- What are the trends in “retirement”? How is society responding to this?
- People are saying “retirement” is no longer relevant as an idea, is that true? Was it ever? What has really changed?

2. Meditations on a Good Life  (Naming)
- What is a good life?  This group can have that conversation, brilliantly, reflectively, and with intention.

3. Where is the talent needed for a Hybrid Economy? (Execution; Mapping)
- What are the talents needed for the hybrid economy? Where does one discover this talent?
- If talent and capital are the two things holding back the promise of social entrepreneurship/citizen sector/social transformation (name it as you will), what will it take to create or find the right talent?
- Quick inventory: Who’s doing interesting things? What do they look like? How are they driven by different assumptions of what talent is needed and where it can be found?
- What are the core levers that will change the dynamics around getting talent where it is needed?

4. Online Community (Execution; Invitation)
- What is the promise of Web 2.0?
- What does it mean to be a part of an on-line community?
- How many on-line communities can one person be a part of? More, less?
- Why, really, do people blog and who reads them? (Jackie and Joy want to know)
- What kinds of change do on-line communities create? Sustain?
- What are the questions that drive on-line organization? Are organizations and social change leaders thinking about this right?
- How do on-line communities invite? What makes that an authentic invitation?

5. Women & Poverty  (Mapping; Execution)
- What’s hopeful?
- What failures do we need to learn from?
- What can we learn from microfinance?
- How do we invite people into the solutions that women are creating, at the local level to be the solutions to poverty in their families, their communities, their countries?
- How do we keep this on the agenda?
- What is the language that works to describe the issues and the solutions?
- What is compelling and engaging but also.. what is right and truth telling?

6. Third Pocket  (Naming; Inviting)
- How do we define a new investment asset class that recycles principal, provides appropriate return, and accomplishes social good?
- What do we need to change about the traditional two pocket thinking, that segregates investing and philanthropy? Do we need to change it?
- Who is the audience for the third pocket? How are they reached? What are ways this can connect to the masses?
- Who are the clear voices in this? What is the noise?
- And, the age old question, what is the role of measurement?