Purpose:

Whidbey Institute is a home for transformational learning and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Our mission is to nurture the conditions for transformational learning, and our purpose is to be a Place for those called by the responsibility and transformative potential of these times.

We partner with a network of program leaders working in the areas of generative leadership, ecosystem vitality, community resilience, and more to offer one-day and multi-day workshops, conferences, and retreats. Our 106-acre conservation forest campus on South Whidbey Island is open to the public and features integrated gardens and a four-mile trail network.

  • Community

    Purpose:

    To create and nurture symbiotic relationship with community

    Accountabilities:

    • Discerning who is our community
    • Nourishing, building, and fostering community
    • Creating more opportunities for local community to benefit/connect from place and programs
    • Creating more opportunities for staff and board to benefit/connect with community
Purpose: To operationalize the work of being a Place for those called by the responsibility and transformative potential of these times.
  • Equity

    Purpose:

    Evolving Whidbey Institute into an anti-racist organization

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.
Purpose: Sensing, sourcing, and developing purpose-aligned programs
  • Business Development and Marketing

    Purpose:

    Increase mission aligned earned income

    Accountabilities:

    • Coordinating periodic business development strategizing meetings with inside and outside sources
    • Vetting long term business impact of strategies
    • Tracking of earned revenue for the year and inviting in team accountability for meeting earned revenue goals
  • Circle Lead

    Purpose:

    Sensing, sourcing, and developing purpose-aligned programs

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.
  • Facilitator

    Purpose:

    Circle governance and operational practices aligned with the Constitution.

    Accountabilities:

    • Facilitating the Circle’s regular Tactical Meetings
    • Facilitating the Circle’s Governance Process
    • Triggering new elections for the Circle’s elected Roles after each election term expires
    • Auditing a Sub-Circle’s meetings and records on request and declaring a Process Breakdown if one is discovered
  • Program Inquiries

    for Team

    Purpose:

    Welcoming purpose-aligned programs

    Accountabilities:

    • Responding to all new program inquiries
    • Discerning purpose alignment and good fit with new programs
    • Forwarding purpose-aligned, well-fitting program inquiries to @Contract Administrator and @Calendar Architect
    • Integrating advice from Program Development Circle into decisions on which new programs are selected for scheduling.
    • Maintaining ongoing relationships with program leaders
    • Leading role: Deciding any customizations to any pricing or booking policies
    • Leading role: Coordinating which team member holds which intakes
  • Program Partnerships

    Purpose:

    Developing relationships with program leaders aligned with our mission

    Accountabilities:

    • Learning on the leading edge of this circle's purpose
    • Identifying and inviting program leaders to bring their mission aligned work to the Whidbey Institute
    • Fostering relationships between Program Leaders
    • Convening Program Leaders
    • Maintaining ongoing relationships with program leaders
Purpose: Evolving Whidbey Institute into an anti-racist organization
  • Circle Lead

    Purpose:

    Evolving Whidbey Institute into an anti-racist organization

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.
  • Accountabilities:

    • Understanding and informing team about local happenings related to equity issues
    • Preparing a welcoming and a support plan with @External Communications for BIPOC retreat participants and visitors to the Whidbey Institute
  • Equity Support

    Purpose:

    To provide equity support for people in past, present and future relationship with the Whidbey Institute.

    Accountabilities:

    • Working to bring equity issues to the larger organization with support from the Equity in Practice Circle
    • Partnering and advocating with and for people bringing equity issues to larger circle(s)
    • Documenting feedback and experiences related to equity at the Whidbey Institute
  • Staff & Board Anti-Racist and Equity Learning

    Purpose:

    Whidbey Institute staff and board members engage in anti-racist and equity learning

    Accountabilities:

    • Defining goals & resources for anti-racist and equity learning for staff and board members
    • Defining a budget to make the anti-racist and equity learning goals achievable
    • Defining anti-racist and equity learning expectations and benchmarks for staff and board members
Purpose: To create and nurture symbiotic relationship with community
  • Circle Lead

    Purpose:

    To create and nurture symbiotic relationship with community

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.
  • Collaborative Liaison

    for Regional Equity Groups, Whidbey Island Waldorf School, Retreat Center Collaboration, Hedgebrook, Maxwelton Collaborative

    Purpose:

    Collaborating with select community partners

    Accountabilities:

    • Attending relevant community meetings
    • Reporting on developments happening in community collaborations
    • Representing Whidbey Institute in community collaborations
  • Community Engagement

    Purpose:

    Connect community members and families with our trails, labyrinth and common space activities

    Accountabilities:

    • Curating and scheduling community events in coordination with @Calendar Architect
    • Communicating with other relevant roles to ensure marketing, registration building and monitoring, and financial close
    • Proposing, designing, and implementing community festivals and events on trails, labyrinth, and commons spaces
    • Cohosting non-contract events with community and program partners
  • Programs

    Purpose:

    Sensing, sourcing, and developing purpose-aligned programs

    Accountabilities:

    • Designing and coordinating overall content direction of the Whidbey Institute
Purpose: To design and implement a celebratory Gala event that engages our donors
  • Gala Program Coordinator

    Purpose:

    Unspecified

    Accountabilities:

    • SPEAKER ENGAGEMENT:

      Selecting speakers who inspire donors and are in harmony with the theme

      Inviting Gala speakers to participate

      Liaising with Gala speakers

      Clarifying financial and logistic arrangements with Gala speakers

    • GALA RUN-OF-SHOW:

      Soliciting relevant input from @Gala Fundraising Strategist, @Gala Event Coordinator, and @Gala Communications Coordinator

      Monitoring timing of each element during event

      Familiarizing other relevant role-holders with run-of-show to ensure flow of event

      Coordinating with Emcee and Raise the Paddle host for Gala

      Coordinating blessing and/or opening and closing elements for Gala

      Designing and implementing Gala program elements that connect people and ideas

      Finalizing Run of Show

      Discussing food and beverage service timing with @Gala Event Logistics Coordinator as kitchen liaison

    • GALA ENTERTAINMENT:

      Recruiting entertainers for Gala, including musicians

      Designing entertainment setup

      Managing entertainer arrival, orientation, and compensation

      Getting input from @Gala Event Coordinator, @Gala Fundraising Strategist and @Gala Communications Coordinator to ensure entertainment fits with event elements and tone