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Inclusive leadership, collective decision-making, and anti-oppressive facilitation are essential skills for driving innovation, inclusivity, and anti-racist action within the archival field. This introductory session will introduce attendees to the foundations of collective leadership through defining it as a practice; sharing strategies to foster collective leadership, including facilitation, trauma-informed practices, developing a shared vision and values, making decisions together, resolving conflict, and discussing change management; and providing time for attendees to reflect.
Upon completion of this course, attendees will:
- Be able to recognize hierarchical vs. collective leadership models and understand the strengths and weaknesses of both models.
- Identify a variety of techniques that can be applied in group collaboration settings to reduce hierarchical dynamics and increase trust and open communication.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone of any career stage or rank is welcome to attend.
What You Should Already Know:
No previous experience is necessary.
Instructors:
Jessica Chapel has leadership experience within SAA and other professional organizations. As a co-founder of the Archival Workers Emergency Fund, she helped guide the formation of the AWEF Organizing Committee and served as chair of the AWEF Review Committee using the principles of collective leadership and shared decision-making. As the founding chair of the Harvard Special Collections and Archives Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism Working Group, she also gained experience implementing anti-oppressive facilitation practices within an institutional culture.
Alison Clemens has held leadership positions within the Society of American Archivists (SAA), the Archival Workers Emergency Fund Organizing Committee, the Abolition in Special Collections group of the Abolitionist Library Association, the Digital Library Federation’s (DLF) Born Digital Access Working Group, the Best Practices for Archival Term Positions term labor working group, and in other venues. Alison is deeply interested in and committed to collective leadership and anti-oppressive facilitation strategies.
Lydia Tang has extensive experience in leadership within SAA, the Archival Workers Emergency Fund Organizing Committee, and the ArchivesSpace open-source community. Tang co-presented a course with SAA Education on Navigating Workplace conflict with Michelle Ganz and Alison Stankrauff. She also has taught Accessibility in Archives and Special Collections courses with Lyrasis Learning and music appreciation courses with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. As a founding co-chair for the Accessibility and Disability section, Tang piloted several techniques of collective leadership, which informed approaches for the Archival Workers Emergency Fund Organizing Committee.
Made possible by the SAA Foundation.
Fees: Advance / Regular:
SAA Members: $0
Nonmembers: $49