Train the Trainer: The Brushy Fork Leadership Curriculum
Track Leader: Peter Hille
Every community needs a way to continually build the pool of engaged leaders. Brushy Fork has created a new leadership curriculum that draws on more than twenty years of experience in Appalachian communities. Designed to be run by local volunteers, the curriculum uses videos, PowerPoint presentations and materials developed by Brushy Fork. Detailed instructions guide the local coordinators who will run the program. In this track, you will learn everything you need to know to organize your local program and conduct the workshops.
Track Limit: 25
| Peter Hille serves as Executive Vice President of MACED, The Mountain Association for Community Economic Development, located in Berea, Kentucky. MACED has a thirty-five year history of serving Appalachian people, businesses and communities with a mission of creating wealth, raising expectations and building vibrant communities across the region. Peter Hille joined MACED’s staff in April 2012 and works with MACED’s programs in energy, forestry and enterprise development. He is also charged with exploring new partnerships and opportunities to extend MACED’s work. MACED and Brushy Fork have had a long and fruitful history of collaboration.Previously, Peter was director of the Brushy Fork Institute. His twenty-two year career there included creating successful new leadership and community development programs and leading strategic planning processes, workshops, retreats, and conferences for local, regional and national organizations. He has also conducted community development projects internationally, in Russia and Slovakia.A 1977 graduate of Swarthmore College, Peter’s background includes experience in grassroots environmental organizing and small business management. He lives with his wife in a passive solar home they designed and built in the midst of fifty acres of forest near Berea, Kentucky. |
