Kiwanis and the Service Leadership movement Introduce myself Video: CRAZY DANCER Assertion: SLP is a movement. Why? What are we trying to move? TTYP question.

The story of Sam I want to start with a story. It’s not a true story – although it could be. It’s an aspirational story.

The story of Sam This is Sam.

HIGHER APTITUDE FOR LEARNING Bring Up Grades (BUG) A commitment to learning The feeling of accomplishment A mentoring relationship with an adult When Sam was a very young child in primary school, she struggled. Sam hated going to school, and struggled academically. A Kiwanis Club in her community sponsored the Bring Up Grades program. As part of the program, Sam set goals for academic performance. She had never set goals before. She liked the feeling of striving to attain something. She also enjoyed meeting Kiwanians who showed a genuine desire to help her. HIGHER APTITUDE FOR LEARNING

K-Kids How individual service can help a community The fun and enjoyment that can come from helping others LOVE FOR SERVICE

Builders Club Greater self-assurance and self-worth The greater impact of collective action and teamwork SELF-CONFIDENCE

PASSION FOR LEADERSHIP Key Leader Understanding of how service and leadership connect A strong desire to live a life of purpose and integrity PASSION FOR LEADERSHIP

SKILLS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Key Club Self-efficacy – the belief in her ability to make a difference in the world Effective organizational leadership skills (Key Leader in practice) SKILLS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Circle K International How to change systems in addition to providing service Inspiration to make service and leadership a part of her daily life A SERVANT’S HEART

COURAGE AND RESILIENCE Aktion Club The strength to achieve your goals Unconditional kindness to others COURAGE AND RESILIENCE She met a young man named Trevor.

The story of Sam HIGHER APTITUDE FOR LEARNING SKILLS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE A SERVANT’S HEART COURAGE AND RESILIENCE HIGHER APTITUDE FOR LEARNING LOVE FOR SERVICE SELF-CONFIDENCE PASSION FOR LEADERSHIP

CELEBRATE First, let’s celebrate. Key Club, Aktion Club, and Builders Club are breaking records every year. K-Kids is as big as it has ever been. CKI is knocking on the door. Key Leader has graduated 14,000 participants. The list goes on and on. However, we cannot be satisfied. Good/Not Good/Good Enough

ELEVATION My job is to elevate service leadership programs. It is to hold them up and shine a light on their power and potential. And if you believe, like I do, that SLP is a movement, then together we spread the movement across the world. In fact, the most important thing I want you to take away today is that we need to regard SLP as a movement and talk about it that way.

MOVEMENT

The Service Leadership movement Let’s better understand what it is we’re moving. We use this term a lot: service leadership. What does that mean? TTYP or flip chart.

Will to lead + Heart to serve I believe it means this. The will to lead is that desire within us to have influence a cause, a group of people, a community. Young people have this will, but don’t often know how to use it. The heart to serve is also a desire within us. The desire to help other people. There are a lot of places where students can learn either of things, and it’s enough. Some places teach leadership really well. Other places provide endless service opportunities. But because we are mostly based in clubs, we can offer both. We can show students that when you combine these things, it is a powerful force for good. Service leadership doesn’t mean you just clean up a highway. It means you clean up a highway AND you lead a campaign to stop littering. It doesn’t mean you just serve food at a homeless shelter. It means you serve food and you join the board of a nonprofit that gets homeless people back to work. It’s taking service and raising it one level higher.

Broken world What is broken about our world? FLIP CHART

ETHICS

JUSTICE

PAIN

honor courage trust humility responsibility leadership Some argue that these values are leaving our society.

honor courage trust humility responsibility leadership And I would argue that the service leadership movement brings them back.

4 types of movements How much change + Who is focus of the change Draw grid on flip chart David Aberle (1966) described four types of social movement including: alternative, redemptive, reformative, and revolutionary social movements, based upon two characteristics: (1) who is the movement attempting to change and (2) how much change is being advocated.

Limited amount of change for specific individuals Alternative movement Alternative social movements are looking at a selective part of the population, and the amount of change is limited due to this. Examples: Bicycle helmet awareness Bring Up Grades VIDEO: Dead Poets Society

Radical amount of change for specific individuals Redemptive movement Redemptive social movements also look at a selective part of the population, but they seek a radical change. Some religious sects fit here, especially the ones that recruit members to be ‘reborn’. Examples: The Eliminate Project

Limited amount of change for everyone Reformative movement Reformative social movements are looking at everyone, but they seek a limited change. The environmental movement fits here, because they try to address everyone to help the environment in their lives (like recycling). Examples: Stop Smoking campaigns VIDEO: Subway

Radical amount of change for everyone Transformative movement Revolutionary social movements want to change all of society. Service leadership fits here.

Broken world If this world is truly broken, then only a transformative movement can fix it.

The story of Sam HIGHER APTITUDE FOR LEARNING SKILLS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE A SERVANT’S HEART COURAGE AND RESILIENCE HIGHER APTITUDE FOR LEARNING LOVE FOR SERVICE SELF-CONFIDENCE PASSION FOR LEADERSHIP

ANTIDOTE And we created this.

So what? It reminds us and others of how much we matter It should change the way we talk about our programs It should change our own attitudes and perceptions of our programs

I’m building a cathedral Consider how you talk about our programs as well. The attitude you bring matters tremendously to our success. Cathedral story.

What are you doing?

Running a program?

Volunteering for Kiwanis?

Empowering future leaders?

Creating the era of Service Leadership

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John Shertzer chief programs officer jshertzer@kiwanis.org Thank you! John Shertzer chief programs officer jshertzer@kiwanis.org