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THE NEXT GENERATION OF AGRICULTURE

2016 Out & Equal Workplace Summit

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WELCOME

1. What does it mean to live authentically?

2. What does it feel like to be unapologetic about our identity?

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PREFLECTION GALLERY

1. What does it mean to live authentically?2. What does it feel like to be unapologetic

about our identity?3. When we think about agriculture or the

Ag industry, what comes to mind?4. What characteristics define

agriculture/agriculture industry?5. What does the agriculture industry do

for me?

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TODAY’S LOW-DOWN

• Define and describe the LGBTQ sub-culture within the agriculture industry.• Interpret how to build capacity for

LGBTQ agriculturists and allies.• Discover positive efforts agricultural

companies are making towards the LGBTQ community.• Unveil and implement tools to better the

LGBTQ community and allies in agriculture.

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CULTIVATING CHANGE SUMMIT

• September 2014 – To Practice Brotherhood created – online community• August 2015 – 1st Cultivating Change

Summit | Atlanta, GA• June 2016 – 2nd Cultivating Change

Summit | Sacramento, CA• Now what?

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CULTIVATING CHANGE SUMMIT & FOUNDATION

Be more visible to each other

Be more visible to others

Connect to people, companies, and organizations who are doing incredible work for the LGBTQ community

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WHAT IS CULTURE?

Culture is the set of basic assumptions and values, beliefs, procedures, and behaviors that are shared by a group of people and that influence each member’s behavior, as well as interprets the meaning of other’s behavior (Spencer-Oatey, 2008).

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DEFINING CULTURE

•Observable Artifacts•Espoused Beliefs & Values•Basic Underlying Assumptions

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CULTURE | OBSERVABLE ARTIFACTS

A groups attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs. How it sees things, what is important and meaningful.

Often includes physical surroundings; it’s product, it’s style(clothing, art, publications); published mission and value statements, its language and jargon, and its myths, stories, rituals and ceremonies.

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CULTURE | ESPOUSED BELIEFS & VALUES

Certain beliefs and values are confirmed by the shared social experience of the group, often passed through over time.

Often embodied in an ideology or organizational philosophy and serves as the guide to dealing with situations or making decision.

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CULTURE | BASIC UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS

When the group operates repeatedly the same way, it will come to believe it is the only way it is supposed to function.

Often unconscious, it becomes the preferred way to operating; tends to be non-confrontable, and non-debatable, and are extremely hard to change.

Values that gain long-term acceptance become so ingrained, that individuals can become unaware of their influence.

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DEFINING MY CULTURE

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MY CULTURE – THINK IT THROUGH

• What was difficult about defining the three categories of culture?• How is culture

influenced by the three categories? Who created these “norms”?

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DEFINING AGRI-CULTURE

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AGRI-CULTURE – THINK IT THROUGH

• What was difficult about defining the agri-culture vs. individual culture?• How do these cultural

understandings shape the agriculture industry & its perception?• For a young, gay or lesbian

student growing up on a farm in rural America, how might the current cultural norms of the agriculture industry shape his/her/their personal and professional development?

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BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY

• For a young, gay or lesbian student growing up on a farm in rural America, how might the current cultural norms of the agriculture industry shape his/her/their personal and professional development? – If you were tasked with solving this issue,

how would you do it? What would it take?

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BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY

“A strong, vibrant community is one that works with groups, organizations, and network towards shared issues and

shared solutions.”

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BUILDING COMMUNITY – WHAT?

Community Capacity Building is defined as the process of developing and strengthening the skills,

instincts, abilities, processes, and resources that organizations and communities need to survive,

adapt, and thrive in the fast-changing world.

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BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY

• 4 Rotations• 5 minutes to complete each rotation• Move as a table – returning back to

original seat at the 4th rotation• Throw-down as many thoughts as

possible within your specific section.

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ROTATION #1

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ROTATION #4

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BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY

• What was difficult?• What challenged us the most?• What would have made this

experience easier?• What did we learn – What is your

“Ah-Ha”, big takeaway from this experience?• What does this experience tell us

about building community capacity?

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WHO’S IN YOUR CAMP?KNOWING THE COMPANIES

WHO LOVE AND SUPPORT US

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CORPORATE EQUALITY INDEX (CEI)

• The HRC Foundation’s CEI is the national benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices (their culture) pertinent to LGBTQ employees.

• Changing the landscape of legal protections for LGBT employees and their families.

• Best practices to meet the needs of LGBT employees and ensure LGBT employees are treated fairly in the workplace.

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CEI CRITERIA

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CEI CRITERIA

• 321 of the Fortune 500-ranked businesses have official CEI ratings based on surveys submitted; an average rating of 88.• 165 of the Fortune 500-

ranked businesses achieved a 100% rating.

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CEI OVERVIEW – BIG PICTURE

• How many people here have their company on the CEI list?• HRC CEI scores of Agriculture companies –

who isn’t on the list?• Should there be a separate category, specific

to the agriculture industry? How might that look?• How does the criteria of the CEI help

towards building community capacity?• How do we get more agricultural companies

placed on this CEI list? What will it take?

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PILLARS TO MAKING CHANGE | “ME”

• Be more visible to each other– We all know that familiar

feeling of meeting people in a work setting or at functions and conferences (like this one!). Knowing others may be in the LGBTQ community, and trying to work it into a conversation to make that connection. We are about making that happen; strengthening the social fabric and further developing the queer community involved in agriculture, and our allies.

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PILLARS TO MAKING CHANGE | “WE”

• Be more visible to others– Think of one person right now

who is a queer leader in the agriculture industry. Not so easy, is it? We need more examples of queer agriculturists which means we need to come out as the amazing, successful advocates we are. In turn, we need to help support other LGBTQ agriculturists around us. A great part in this movement is first knowing who we are individually. The Cultivating Change Foundation wants you to be able to understand your personal and professional identity and how to share it with others.

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PILLARS TO MAKING CHANGE | “US”

• To connect to people, companies, and organizations who are doing incredible work for the LGBTQ community– There are many companies,

organizations, and people who are fighting to support diversity and inclusion and specifically, gender and sexual identity. The Cultivating Change Foundation hopes to raise awareness of their work and connect these people, companies, and organizations to queer agriculturists.

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THE PILLARS THREE OF MAKING CHANGE

Bemorevisibletoeachother

Bemorevisibletoothers

Connecttopeople,companies,andorganizationswhoaredoingincredibleworkfortheLGBTQcommunity

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GALLERY REFLECTION

• How are you being more visible to others in the LGBTQ community in your work place?• What ways are you or have you

been more visible in the LGBTQ community? How do you show-up?• Who are the people, companies,

and organizations you believe are or could be doing incredible work for the LGBTQ community within agriculture?

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CONTACT US

Cultivating Change Foundation Mission: Value and elevate LGBTQ agriculturists through advocacy, education, and community.

The Cultivating Change Foundation is powered by Studio 5 –Learning & Development.

For more information about Studio 5 – Learning & Development & Cultivating Change Foundation:

Jesse Lee Eller | jeller@studio5consulting.com

Marcus L. Hollan | mhollan@cultivatingchangefoundation.org