PossePlus Retreat
The PossePlus Retreat is a collaborative, focused group discussion on a contemporary issue which Posse Scholars and invited college community members will conduct every year in a retreat setting.
Before 2008, Posse Scholars from individual colleges will select a particular discussion theme, facilitated by Posse trainers, for their college's PossePlus Retreat. Since 2008, Deborah Bial, the founder of Posse Foundation, introduced a new discussion theme selection process which all of the Posse PlusRetreats across the entire nation will have a unified, rather than individual, discussion theme. Similar to the previous selection process, Posse Scholars from individual colleges will first choose a discussion theme for their college. Then, the Posse staff will discuss, analyze and refine those themes that are collected from individual colleges. Finally, the Posse staff will deduce an articulated common theme for all of the PossePlus Retreats for that year.
In 2008, "Social Responsibility" was chosen as the first PossePlus Retreat theme. It is expected that by the end of the year, a booklet that will summarize all of the discussion made in that retreat will be published. This publication will be made available to the public as well as will be distributed the presidents of all universities and colleges across the United States, to raise their awareness of this particular theme and the discussions made by the Posse Scholars. In 2009, the POSSE Plus Retreat theme was "Education." 2010'a topic was "Do we still need to talk about race?" and it covered the idea of society being post-racial.
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