{"id":152932,"date":"2021-12-09T17:13:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=152932"},"modified":"2021-12-09T17:13:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:13:18","slug":"community-summit-uh-manoa-stakeholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/12\/09\/community-summit-uh-manoa-stakeholders\/","title":{"rendered":"Community summit connects UH<\/abbr>, M\u0101noa stakeholders"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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The Confabulous summit for M\u0101noa stakeholder organizations including the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> was held virtually on December 5. The summit was designed to help M\u0101noa 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.<\/p>\n

M\u0101lama M\u0101noa<\/a> partnered with UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Department of Urban and Regional Planning<\/a> (DURP<\/abbr>) Professor Dan Milz<\/strong>, also of the Matsunaga Institute for Peace<\/a>, to facilitate the virtual summit via Zoom. Graduate students from Milz\u2019s PACE\/PLAN 668 course, entitled Facilitation: Facilitating Community and Organizational Change, worked on a service learning project with leaders from M\u0101lama M\u0101noa.<\/p>\n

“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!’”<\/p>\n

Milz also helped summit organizers to coordinate with Assistant Professor Suwan Shen<\/strong>, whose DURP<\/abbr> undergraduate students worked on a service learning project to analyze the data from the M\u0101noa Community Needs Survey.<\/p>\n

“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\u0101lama M\u0101noa for making this happen.”<\/p>\n

The participating Confabulous summit organizations were:<\/p>\n

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