Call for Proposals

Sample Presentation Topics

Your presentation or topic may:

• Provide training in a leadership topic (e.g., program evaluation, negotiation)
• Share a successful community-building initiative and discussing how it might be replicated or adapted at other institutions
• Introduce relational mapping tools in a hands-on way
• Engage participants in advancing their own relational work (e.g., developing a plan for greater institutional psychological safety)  
• Introduce tools and techniques for storytelling and podcasting
• Share how you have incorporated advocacy into motivating change (e.g., in primary care transformation, health education, addressing challenges at your institution)
• Highlight examples of interprofessional collaboration
• Detail how a successful team event raised awareness, built connections, and/or met community needs, including learnings from the process

Participation

Participation is open to all members of the healthcare community — practitioners, activists, researchers, educators, administrators, and learners at all levels.

Questions?

Not sure where your idea fits? Want to submit more than one type of presentation? Other questions? Please reach out to rlconvening@intendhealth.org. We would be delighted to learn more about your presentation topic.

For students, residents, and others who are wondering whether you should submit your proposal, the answer is YES! And we are here to support you. Please reach out to rlconvening@intendhealth.org with any questions.

Presentation Opportunity: The Learning Exchange

For the Learning Exchange, we are seeking completed or in-progress examples of novel programs, strategies, projects, or research, presented in a short, 10 to 15-minute presentation. Following the presentations, there will be an opportunity for group discussion, reflection, and questions. Be prepared to share your ideas and welcome ideas from others. Three presentations will be grouped together by our conference planner team.

Presentation Opportunity: Workshops (Skill-Building Sessions)

We are seeking workshops and programming examples that promote relationship building within healthcare and fit within topic areas adjacent or directly related to Relational Leadership.

Consider submitting a one- to two-hour workshop that provides a comprehensive, skill-building experience. Each workshop might include didactic, interactive activities, small and large group discussions, and breaks (if more than one hour).

Presentation Opportunity: Reverse Panels

Reverse Panels engage the experience, expertise, and problem-solving skills of other attendees through a challenge you, your team, or your institution is facing.  Explore the challenge with others who may be struggling with the same or similar concerns, and begin to create ideas and solutions together.

Prepare a short, 15-minute presentation about a specific problem or challenge within a research project or another project on which you are working. Following the presentations, there will be a facilitated, large-group discussion, which might include clarifications, suggestions, and sharing. Be prepared to share your ideas and welcome ideas from others. Two presentations may be grouped together by our conference planner team.

Presentation Opportunity: The Community Symposium

The Community Symposium* is an interactive space that promotes sharing, engagement, and inspiration within healthcare leadership, relational culture, and interprofessional teams. Submit examples of projects or research, completed or in progress, to present in either a poster or tabletop discussion format. Be prepared to share your ideas and welcome ideas from others. Make new connections to build energy around and advance your work.

Innovative projects, including research, quality improvement, program development and delivery, and community engagement, require overcoming many barriers. The Community Symposium is an opportunity to highlight how project teams infused relational practices to overcome challenges and promote Growth, Authenticity, Belonging, and/or Integration.

A choice of two formats:

• Tabletop: Interactive demonstration
• Poster: Academic in nature; does not promote a specific product or service

‍Submission topics can include:

• Growth (learning and innovation)
• Authenticity (transparency and agency)
• Belonging (wellbeing and engagement)
• Integration (collaboration and interdependence)

Community Symposium presentations should promote 1:1 or small group conversations about:

• Completed, in-progress, or proposed projects that develop community/connection and support team growth and development
• Resources, tools, information that build relational culture
• Displays, demonstrations, or expositions that advocate for positive change in relationships or teamwork in healthcare

* If you represent a company or organization and wish to promote your proprietary products or services, you can participate as a conference sponsor or exhibitor. See Sponsors & Sponsorships for more information about sponsor benefits or email Ariela Knight at aknight@intendhealth.org.