Twenty participants attended a preliminary meeting regarding an active leadership course to be held by the partnership during 2007-8.

Partnership Chairman Rami Raz and education and community task force chairpersons Dalia Freiman and Avi Hatchuel, welcomed the participants and shared with them their personal perspectives on the partnership activity.

At the meeting the participants learned about the project's joint goals and the unique model on which Partnership 2000-Western Galilee operates. 

The goal of the course is to expand the circle of partnership activity and activists by training active community leaders who are committed to the partnership idea, goals and modes of operation - leaders capable of joining the existing task forces and evolving into the partnership's future generation of leaders.

The participants included activists from Akko, Mateh Asher and the regional organizations, as well as employees of the Partnership 2000 partner institutions - individuals with an orientation toward, and experience in, the fields of leadership, management, entrepreneurship and development.

The course will consist of ten sessions and will address a variety of issues relevant to the training of future partnership leaders, such as:  decision-making, time management, leadership, marketing and public relations, entrepreneurship, communication, managerial skills, volunteer activity, the Jewish world and its organizations, etc.

Most of the course sessions will be in the form of workshops of several hours' duration; there will also be a two-day sleepover study trip to Jerusalem, and the possibility exists of an addition study trip to the Jewish communities in the US.

Participants will be expected to attend all of the course sessions, to submit individual projects, and to play an active role in partnership activity for a period of at least two years.
We will shortly be conducting candidate interviews, and a final schedule will be published.

Good luck!!!