Assess who from your community was missing at the presentations.  Are the voices of populations in your community most affected by ACEs in your community included in the leadership of your efforts?  Whose voices are usually NOT included?  How might you reach out, build trust, and invite them to attend an Understanding ACEs: Building Self-Healing Communities presentation in your community?  MCCC staff are available to talk with you and support you in your efforts to expand leadership!

Here are some questions that could guide a follow-up gathering and maintain momentum:

• What do you remember from the presentation? Sharing with one another – a few weeks after the presentation – what you remember standing out is a great way to reinforce learning.
• What did you commit to doing? Did you do it?  Why or why not?  This should be presented in a non-judgmental manner – often there are good reasons we decide not to do what we may have originally committed to, maybe because it pointed us in the direction of what we really want to do.
• What changed for you that you didn’t expect? Did you do something in your sphere of influence that you hadn’t planned or expected?  How are innovation and creativity arising in you around this work?