LeaderShape
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LeaderShape is a 6-day leadership conference connected students with their own passions and visions for their future and the future of their communities. The headquarters for LeaderShape, Inc. is in Champaign, Illinois. There are 8 summer sessions held at the (inter)national headquarters, and over 70 campuses have hosted their own conferences including Education City in March of 2007.
Each of the 6 days of the program have its individual theme, moving students through an introspective process towards formulating a personal vision and action plan:
- DAY 1: "Building Community"
- DAY 2: "The Value of One, The Power of All"
- DAY 3: "Challenging What Is, Looking to What Could Be"
- DAY 4: "Bringing Vision to Reality"
- DAY 5: "Living and Leading with Integrity"
- DAY 6: "Staying in Action"
By the closing day, students can walk away with a concrete way to transform their communities for the better.
To learn more about LeaderShape and the history of the program, check out their website. For information and history on Education City's campus based sessions, see below!
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LeaderShape 2010
The 4th Qatar Campus LeaderShape program will be held from January 4-9, 2010. The application process will happen in the Fall of 2009. Please contact Darbi Roberts for more information.
LeaderShape 2009
The 3rd Qatar Campus LeaderShape program was held between January 3-8, 2009. Melissa Deschampes, Director of International Education, was the Carnegie Mellon cluster facilitator and we had 12 participants from CMUQ including Mohammed Abid Shirzai, Swapnil Joshi, Varun Arora, Allan Reaves, Hira Ahmed, Ushna Amer, Mridula Mukundan, Sara Abbas, Batoul Khalife, Asma Hamid, Nasreen Zahan, and Tarkay Jamaan. We also had an upperclassmen serve as one of the Student On-site Coordinators, Keghani Kouzoujian.
LeaderShape 2008
From January 5-10, 2008, the 2nd International LeaderShape institute was held for the students of Education City. Caryl Tuma, Student Development Coordinator for Professional Development, was the cluster facilitator from Carnegie Mellon and the university has around a dozen participants. The second year employed the help of 2 Student On-Site Coordinators, one of which was our very own Kaleem Rahman.
LeaderShape 2007
From March 23-38, 2007, the first ever international LeaderShape Institute was held for the students of Education City at the Beach Resort in Al Khor, Qatar. There were 55 students in attendance from Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Texas A&M, Virginia Common Wealth, Qatar University, and the College of the North Atlantic.
The Co-Lead Facilitators for LeaderShape 2007 were Sharra Durham and Babak Azad. The Cluster facilitators were Emily Yates (TAMUQ), Kristin Morgan (QF), Kevin Konecny (QF), Andrew Crawford (Georgetown), Sana Al-Buainain (VCU), and Darbi Roberts (CMU). The on-site coordinator for the conference was Dave Stanfield (CMU) and Kristen Young from the LeaderShape headquarters in Champaign, IL, came out to assist with the momentous event.
