Ann and Sharon facilitated this second session with a primary goal of connecting leaders to each other and to the upcoming Workshop series in July.

The slidedeck can be viewed here.

SUMMARY of SESSION

We started the session with two rounds of Conversation Cafe, where each of the four participants was given the same amount of time to respond.

The questions were:

1) As you think ahead to next year, what aspect of this work do you find your mind returning to again and again?

2) What are you noticing as you listen to one another? What feels shared across your experiences?

Following a short demonstration of the “anatomy of a Practical Action Guide” using Summer Sustainability as an example, we conducted a poll of participants to prioritize topics for the upcoming workshops.

POLL QUESTION: Which of these would you be most excited to explore in a Workshop with your peers?

RESPONSE OPTIONS:

1) From Requirements to Safety and Support – to move beyond checking boxes

2) Creating Trauma-Informed Spaces – to strengthen support for students impacted by harm

3) Student Engagement – to move students from awareness to action

4) Communicating Effectively with Campus Leaders – to increase leadership buy-in

5) Data to Storytelling – to move from collecting data to using it

6) Strategic Plan Alignment – to connect prevention and response efforts to institutional priorities and goal

Two topics bubbled to the top with 100% of the vote. Each of these topics will be the foundation for one of the upcoming Workshops.

1) Creating Trauma-Informed Spaces

2) Student Engagement

You might be wondering…. What is a Practical Action Guide?

A Practical Action Guide — or PAG for short — is a “roadmap” for navigating the large, dense Changing Campus Culture Toolkit 2026.

Each two-page downloadable “user guide” is meant to steer campus partners through the available resources, because we recognize it’s a large document with complex information.

Each Practical Action Guide was designed to:

• Create direction for users by curating a clear starting point, sequencing key tools, and outlining multiple “pathways” so campuses can act without reading dozens of pages first.

• Connect peer learning to practical action by lifting strategies, examples, and lessons emerging from the Statewide Peer Connection Sessions and embedding them into step-by-step guidance that reflects real campus conditions.

• Serve as anchor materials for the “How to Use the Toolkit” workshops, deepening participants’ engagement and priming them for future use of the Toolkit.

This Practical Action Guide is for Changing Campus Culture champions seeking to maintain momentum in prevention and response efforts during summer months when staffing, student presence, and engagement shift.

This two-page document includes a simple assessment for campus leaders to self-select an initial suggested reading from the Toolkit. That “groundwork” reading is paired with 13 action steps designed to generate small wins such as “CCC work continues at a manageable pace over the summer.”

Leaders can choose to take one or more of the action steps to carry their work forward. Click here to download a copy of the Summer Sustainability Practical Action Guide.

In our Peer Connection Sessions, we adapted our discussion format from a Liberating Structures tactic called “Conversation Cafe”.

We really love this approach to leading peer discussions and encourage you to learn more.

Click here for Conversation Cafe Host Manual

Click here for Infographic Style Mini-Guide

Liberating Structures: https://www.liberatingstructures.com/conversation-cafe‍ ‍