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The CNL Values
The CNL community is the supporting presence of members for the continual discovery of self. In seeking wholeness, we value:

• Social Accountability
  • -giving and receiving
  • -acting on the social contract between profession and society
  • -mentoring intra- and inter- professionally.
• Differences
  • -inviting and honoring richness of diversity.
  • -translating diversity into new knowledge and interdependent action
• Trust
  • -assuming and expecting good intent.
  • -creating a safe environment
• Discovery
  • -Pushing current boundaries.
  • -inviting the creative tension emanating from both fringe and centrist positions
  • -appreciating multiple perspectives.
  • -seeking new knowledge and action.
  • -acknowledging failure as an opportunity to learn.
• Openness
  • -being available to each other without reservation.
  • -disclosing freely with each other.
  • -supporting vulnerability
• Integrity
  • -discerning truth and honesty.
  • -leading from values.
  • -acting from moral courage.
• Regeneration
  • -renewing personally and professionally.
  • -energizing through story telling and ritual.
  • -reaffirming collective wisdom.
  • -sustaining self and community.
• Co-creation
  • -establishing equal and supportive presence.
  • -expecting involvement.
  • -acting in partnership.
• Courage
  • -taking risks.
  • -expressing self in many dimensions

The CNL Goals

The Center offers the one-year Journey Toward Mastery as the essential step into lifelong learning for leadership. A select group of highly accomplished nurse leaders participate and learn through a program that emphasizes self-directed, participative and continuous learning.

The CNL Activities

Center activities include a variety of experiences based on the participants’ expertise and career interests and needs:

• The Journey Toward Mastery, a year-long leadership program that serves as the initial entry to the Community, a continuing fellowship of nursing leaders committed to transformation.
• Co-creating and participating in a collaborative learning community.
• Publications and spin-off programs to disseminate and enhance the results of Center research and resources.

The CNL Design Characteristics

The design characteristics of Center activities are:

• Active partnerships between the participants and the faculty.
• Emphasis on cross learning (from one discipline or setting to another).
• Continuous rather than episodic learning.
• Focus on action learning, learning partnerships, and real-life challenges.
• Fostering an interdependent mindset, and incorporate perspectives of other members of the team, involving them in Center activities whenever possible.
• Focus on specific functional skills which influence the external world, coupled with transformational skills which influence the internal world of values, beliefs, and the spirit

Core Benefits:

• The Center for Nursing Leadership builds upon the expertise, wisdom, knowledge, and spirit of its members to establish new dimension of knowing, being and leading. 
• The Center for Nursing Leadership is an indispensable vehicle for nurse leaders to excel in personal and professional growth through a Community committed to lifelong learning. 
• Community members are leaders who identify, facilitate, and embody effective behaviors and competencies that transform health care. 

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The CNL Mission
The Center for Nursing Leadership builds upon the expertise, wisdom, knowledge, and spirit of its members to establish new dimensions of knowing, being, and leading.

The CNL Vision
The Center for Nursing Leadership is an indispensable vehicle for nurse leaders to excel in personal and professional growth through Community committed to lifelong learning. Ongoing Community members are leaders who identify, facilitate, and embody effective behaviors and competencies that transform health care.