Using the Enneagram to connect and relate as board. This process is used in the Lumen staff and as a tool in the relational learning work at Lumen.

Looking at our board composition and how we can fill gaps for a more balanced grouping.

Discussion around why be in service on the Lumen board.

We are looking at the board culture and continuing to build the culture in a way that engages people from all corners of our community. 

How do we foster belonging on the board- for those on the board currently and for those not on the board yet.  Want to build more board in school connection with staff and students.

Wanting flexibility with the understanding that there is commitment, need to grow board so we don’t have so much guilt for pressure if there is life situations that come up. Keeping is sustainable is important.

Adding more Board members is critical for functioning and quality is critical for efficacy.

For empowerment adding an exit interview for board members would be helpful. Board members need to feel empowerment to stop meeting to if issues arise.

Ideas for more board connection: WASDA conference, special meetings quarterly.

Tenacity, we have to make sure that we are connecting with all students who need Lumen, the need to overcome trust issues and perceptions of educational systems including Lumen.

Who are the trusted messengers we could connect with?

Discovery of self and school continued work for the board, finding new ways to hear student voice is so necessary.

Conversation about committee roles and co-chairs. Noted the governance committee also encompasses a sub committee of recruitment.

Financial outlook on track we are under budget on expenses and slightly over budget on funding.

Student advocacy has been central to the Lumen mission and is represented in the core value of Empowerment. Students voiced in the design time that they needed to build the skills to advocate for themselves and their children in systems and agencies. Lumen students took part in an HCA focus group on healthcare outcomes this year and we can draw a through line to other systems Lumen students are involved in and this compiled report gives us insight.

We will use This insight to know our students better and find ways we as the board can be involved in and this work with Lumen staff and students.

Works in the healthcare field and is here to bring insight from her experiences in the hospital and volunteering to give context in how we can build trust and safety.

Hope and flexibility necessary in mindset for students in order to allow for voices to advocate.

Things that shut down the voices: they don’t feel heard, the language is over their head, they don’t trust the experts has their best interest in mind. 

When the attention in systems is only on the child and not the parent, that creates a situation where the parent doesn’t want to be wrong and so they stay silent.

Each of us has a role to play, it could be being in Lumen, reporting quality information, using privilege to show up with a student, how do we address the shame that our students endure, as a society we need deal with our own shame. With-ness is one thing we can offer our students and community.  Awareness of Lumen’s work in the Spokane area and advocating in Olympia is important to ongoing systems work.

Board Meeting Calendar: Should we keep the same day of the week and time? We are moving to 2:30pm instead of 2pm.

For location we would move from the 1st floor to the Lumen 3rd floor. 

Draft Board Calendar will be ready for review in September.

Board retreat first week of August next year.

Reminder on the date for il-lumenate the night November 5th.