We are so excited to share updates with you on our network-wide strategic planning process and invite you to join us for Focused Implementation.  During this year’s Annual Gathering the board enlisted our Erness Wright Irvin Fellows (EWI) - Ronda Alexander and Librada Estrada - to guide us through a network-wide strategic plan.  

Through this process we intended to…

Rational Aims:

  • Develop a SP as a network that engages our practitioners and trainers in co-creating a plan for how we function together

  • Practicing and using the tools in community/network with one another

Experiential Aims:

  • Grow, build, and deepen relationship among and between ToP practitioners and trainers as we use and further develop the tools together

  • Experience ToP values of inclusive participation, profound respect and shared ownership 

  • Enjoy connecting and have fun with other ToP practitioners and trainers

We sought to answer the question - “How might we grow and build an inclusive, relevant network of ToP facilitation practitioners and trainers over the next three to five years?”

More than 60 members of the network joined us to explore this question and develop a Practical Vision, explore our blocks and barriers through a Force Field Analysis, and begin to outline Strategic Directions to guide the next three to five years of our work together. We were quite ambitious given the time, and therefore did not complete Strategic Directions during the gathering; however, members of the board met earlier this month to finalize and name these directions.

Here you will find documentation for the work we’ve completed together, which includes…

  1. Executive Summary 

    • High-level snapshot of what’s been accomplished

  2. Practical Vision

    • Three Mini-Consensus Workshops

    • Meta Vision Elements (consensus with titles from mini-workshops)

  3. Blocks and Barriers

    • Force Field Analysis on each element of the Meta Vision

  4. Strategic Directions

    • Started during the gathering and completed by the ToP Network Board

On April 25, 2025 we will complete our strategic plan with the final workshop, Focused Implementation.  If you are ready and willing to play an active role in bringing this plan to life, we invite you to join us as we outline and assign actions for the first year of implementation - you can register HERE (you do not need to have attended the prior planning sessions).  Be sure to sign up soon, as registration for Focused Implementation will close on Wednesday, April 16th.

We recognize that there will be overlap with our existing action teams, so we’ll be sending a separate message to those groups to ensure we calibrate and integrate the work you’re already doing in the implementation plan.  

We look forward to completing our plan and bringing it to fruition together as a network.  Let’s honor the wisdom and experience of those who have been with the network for many years, while also welcoming new practitioners as we embark on the next leg of our journey.  We can’t wait to see you on April 25, 2025!

Sincerely, 

The ToP Network Board