Annual CT Fellows Retreat

The student retreat is an innovative event that brings together a select group of studentsand faculty from Vanderbilt’s professional schools for two intensive days of engagement with each other. An underlying premise is that for individuals to be effective moral leaders within their own professions, they need to understand the challenges facing their own and other professions as well as be familiar with the assumptions and perspectives held by professionals in other fields. Faculty from each of the participating schools lend their expertise and insight as they challenge the students to address a range of issues facing the professions.

Pennyrile Forest State Resort  Park

The retreat is held at Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park. The Park is approximately a two-hour drive from Nashville. (We will provide transportation to and from the State Park.) Students will be housed two to a room. Expenses (lodging and food) will be covered by the Cal Turner Program. The State Park has a swimming pool, paddleboats for rent, an 18-hole golf course, and a miniature golf course. 

2010-2011

2010 CTP Fellows Retreat Schedule
Wed August 11th

8:00    Meet for coffee and discuss article (Parker Palmer Article)
9:30    Travel from Vanderbilt to Pennyrile State Park1
11:30    Check-in and Lunch, Main and Dining Room
1:30    Introductions (Reside facilitating)
2:30    1st Session – What is the CT Fellows Program?
           --What does it mean to be a professional?
          -- What are the ethical elements of professional life?
3:30    Break
4:00    2nd Session -- Group work: Discuss your professions and share with the group:
        a)    Something about your profession that others probably do not know
        b)   Bart discusses the issue of “professional space” and then asks professional cohorts to describe their professional space. What does it mean to be in that space?  What do they see as the principle threats to that space?
        c)    Share with one another the outcomes from their interviews
5:30    Dinner
7:00    3rd Session -- Faculty Panel: Each faculty discusses their particular professional story.  
        -- Why and how did you end up in your profession?
        -- What do you worry about?
        -- How are your own values expressed and lived out in your profession?
        
9:00    Welcome Reception, Cabin

Thurs August 12th: Working Together

7:00     Breakfast
8:30    Welcome, Day’s Agenda, Housekeeping
9:00    4th Session -- Working Together: Faculty Present cases from their own work, research or experience, that demonstrates the need for cross-professional collaboration.  The objective of this session is to demonstrate that the big social issues are shared problems among the professions.
10:30     Break
10:45    5th Session -- Introduce the Projects for the Year
12:30    Lunch
1:15    Afternoon is Free
Free Time Activities (Scavenger Hunt/Geo Cashing, Mini-Golf, boating, swimming, etc)
6:30    Cookout
Evening    Karaoke

Fri August 13th:

7:00    Breakfast and check out of room (Please check out of your rooms before attending the morning session)
9:00    6th Session -- Values based Leadership: Presenting the Values Instrument, and connecting it to the fellows’ sense of professional identity.
10:30    Break
10:45    7th Session -- Values Based Leadership Continued…. Metaphors for Self
12:30 pm    Lunch
1:30    Concluding Comments (Reside)
2:00    Depart from Pennyrile

2009-2010

Friday August 14th, 2009

8:00    Meet for coffee and discuss article (Parker Palmer Article)(Reside, Nash)

9:30    Travel from Vanderbilt to Pennyrile State Park
11:30    Check-in and Lunch, Main and Dining Room
1:30    Introductions (Reside facilitating)
2:30    Leadership and what it means to be a Professional (Reside, Nash, Perry, Vergara, Victor, Etherington, McLure, Eberhart)
3:30    Break
4:00    Values Assessment (McClure)
5:30    Dinner
7:00    Values Assessment (McCLure)
9:00    Welcome Reception, Cabin

Saturday August 15th:
7:00      Breakfast
8:30      Welcome, Day’s Agenda, Housekeeping
9:00      Morning Session I – Common Moral Problems (Reside, Perry and students – drawing on their interview data)
10:30    Break
10:45    Morning Session II Engaging Students interviews
12:30    Lunch
1:15      Afternoon Session: Dilemmas of Professional Life (Reside, Nash, Perry, Vergara, Victor, Etherington, McLure, Eberhart)
2:30 – 6:00     Scavenger Hunt/Geo Cashing
6:30      Cookout
Evening  Karaoke

Sunday August 16th:

7:00    Breakfast and check out of room (Please check out of your rooms before attending the morning session)
9:00    Looking Forward (Nash on CHD, Eberhart on Sustainability)
10:30   Break
10:45   Looking Forward Cont'd. (Victor on Project Pyramid, Vergara & Etherington on IGH)
12:30   Lunch
1:30     Concluding Comments (Reside)
3:00     Depart from Pennyrile