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MinnPost: What are young adults thinking?

June 9th, 2011

Rural leaders need to listen to young adults and students who live in their communities. Doing so will provide perspective and understanding into how young adults view life in rural places.

Unfortunately, most of us don’t have (or don't make) the time to do so. That’s why the “Rural Minnesota: A Generation at the Crossroads” project by MinnPost.com is so important. With financial support from the Otto Bremmer Foundation, MinnPost contributors are traveling across rural Minnesota interviewing high school students and young adults, garnering their thoughts about life in small towns.

The interviews and supplemental stories are packed with information. For instance:

In Sandstone, MN, we meet Jacqueline Griffith who tells us of the push and pull factors that have ultimately lead her to return to Sandstone.

In Willmar, MN, MinnPost introduces us to twenty-two-year-old college student Abdalla Mohamed, who explains what it is like to grow up as a minority in a rural community.

And in New Ulm, twenty-four-year-old Bob Martens shares the duality of loving his community and wanting to see it change.

I’m looking forward to future MinnPost articles in this series. I’m not sure where the interviews will go, but I’m confident that they will continue to provide a great macro view of what young people are thinking.

At the same time, however, I hope that the articles inspire more rural leaders to begin holding conversations with young people in their own communities. Not only will it provide more concrete information, but it’s a great way to build a relationship with them.

And we should never forget the power of relationships in the process of improving our communities.

(listen to Jackie Griffeth talk about Sandstone. Source: "Rural Minnesota interview: Jackie Griffith from Sandstone," MinnPost, April 7, 2011)

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The town of Harrisonburg, VA has started something called the Harrisonburg Summits to create intentional opportunities for public conversation around important issues facing the community. The idea in and of itself isn't new. What puts it over the top, in my mind, is the use of Open Space Technology.

What's Open Space Technology?

I first learned about Open Space Technology at an Art of Hosting training sponsored, in part, by the Rural Learning Center. The RLC understands that conversation, and the ability to host conversation, is a critical need in our rural communities. Open Space is one tool we use to do that. At its most basic, Open Space is a facilitation process that allows meeting participants to create the agenda around a specified topic based on what's most important to the people in the room. Several conversations are hosted at one time, and people can choose to participate in whichever is most interesting to them. There is a lot more to it, but the premise that it genuinely allows the voices of those in the room to influence the outcome is most important here. This is vital if your goal is to engage people both in conversation, and then in the work that follows.

See what Harrisonburg residents think of the process in the video below.

The importance of involvement from the start.

Why is it so important to engage people in the process of creating the agenda? I think the answer begins and ends with one principle: people care more about ideas and projects that they feel a part of. Gone are the days when a city leader can come to a group of people with a project identified and execution planned, and simply ask for their help in doing the work. People want to feel more a part of the process, and their ownership is fundamental to getting the project completed. That ownership is one of the reasons why the community building work in Miner County has been so successful; people's individual ideas and passions became the community's ideas and passions. And they were willing to work hard to make things happen.

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