The Confabulous summit for ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ stakeholder organizations including the University of Â鶹´«Ã½ was held virtually on December 5. The summit was designed to help ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ organizations to get to know each other better through round robin discussions, scavenger hunts, social network mapping, and collective problem solving and more. The organizations shared their mission statements, needs, wants and suggested types of community service projects for potential collaborations with other stakeholders.
partnered with UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ (DURP) Professor Dan Milz, also of the , to facilitate the virtual summit via Zoom. Graduate students from Milz¡¯s PACE/PLAN 668 course, entitled Facilitation: Facilitating Community and Organizational Change, worked on a service learning project with leaders from M¨¡lama ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹.
“We often hear so much about how online meetings have fall short; they’re awkward, they’re not great for public participation, et cetera,” said Milz, “but here we have a group of students who gave serious consideration to the question of ‘can we do it better?’ And, based on the reaction of the people who attended the Confabulous, the answer is a resounding ‘yes!’”
Milz also helped summit organizers to coordinate with Assistant Professor Suwan Shen, whose DURP undergraduate students worked on a service learning project to analyze the data from the ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Community Needs Survey.
“This was a great opportunity for students in my facilitation course to design and facilitate activities in a real-world setting, with actual community leaders,” said Milz. “This has been a great applied learning project for them, and I’m grateful for Helen Nakano and her colleagues at M¨¡lama ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ for making this happen.”
The participating Confabulous summit organizations were:
- M¨¡lama ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹
- Hale Kokua o ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Adventist Community Center
- ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Valley Church Pre-School
- ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Chinese Cemetery
- ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Outdoor Circle
- ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Heritage Center
- MoʻO School
- ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Japanese Language School
- Church of Crossroads
- Streams of Life Fellowship
- Be Ready ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹
- Living Life Source Foundation
- BSA Troop 33
- ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Public Library
- Lyon Arboretum
- Maryknoll School
- Mid Pacific Institute
- ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Neighborhood Board
- ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Elementary School
- Honolulu Christian Church
- University Avenue Baptist Church
- ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Valley District Park
- ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Lions Club
- Punahou School¡¯s Luke Center for Public Service
- University of Â鶹´«Ã½ System