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Minnesota Department of Transportation

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Sustainability and Public Health Fellowship

Marcus Young

2021 Manager’s Workshop Oct. 11, 2021: "I Dream of Wild ____________"

Marcus Young, in collaboration with Research & Innovation, and the Sustainability and Public Health Division, will engage 200 MnDOT Managers in a Workshop session to do the serious work of dreaming, connecting, and taking a collective breath after the challenging years of COVID.

Framing questions and statements

  • How do we cultivate a familiarity (and maybe practice) of far-reaching and wild dreaming alongside and paired with the technical, the procedural, the other-practical work of the Minnesota Dept of Transportation?
  • How do we do this dreaming with our whole selves and with each other?
  • The session starts with grounding in breath and body, acknowledging and working with limitations and opportunities of screen and technology. Stretching ones self, new muscles.
  • We encourage play, honor boundaries, and practice vulnerability. We touch that part of ourselves that wants the world to be very different, much better.
  • We value participation and everyone's voice.

Learning objectives

  • Embodied Self, Breathing and Movement
  • Sharing Transportation Stories
  • Creative reflection for leaders, demonstration of vulnerability
  • Collective Creative Visualization Exercise: Imagining into the Future