2025 MO/KS FALL PEER COMMUNITY MEETING

You are invited to attend our Fall Peer Community Meeting to learn more about your own leadership style, network with your peers from other Ys, and be recharged as you return back to your Y to continue the great work you doing in your community.

REGISTRATION: Click here to REGISTER by September 29

DATES: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

LOCATION: Kirk Family YMCA, 222 W 11th Street, Kansas City, MO 64106

FEE: $50 per person, payable at registration or an invoice can be sent.

Registration fee ($50 per person) includes the DiSC Working Style assessment ($60 value) and catered lunch. Teams can take their DiSC insights and continue to build on what they learn. Access to the DiSC team platform remains available as long as Y staff have their associated email address. Registration fee is non-refundable.

DiSC ASSESSMENT: After registering, you will receiving an email from our DiSC facilitator, Maribeth Mees, with a link to complete your assessment. This assessment needs to be completed by October 1st.

HOTEL OPTIONS: If you need accommodations for the meeting, here are some options for you.

 

AGENDA

10:00am - 12:00pm

Discovering our Unique Working Styles

The DiSC Profile is a personal assessment used to identify and measure an individual’s behavioral and communication style. We have distinct ways of thinking, feeling, and acting and with the DiSC assessment, we can learn more about our unique style and its strengths and opportunities for the workplace and the Y. And, we will discuss how understanding others’ styles will help us grow stronger teams within our Ys, and create dynamic collaborations with others across the Y movement. 

Get ready for Disc-ology!

Facilitated by Maribeth Mees, South City YMCA Board Member
12:00 - 12:45pm

Networking Lunch (provided)
12:45 - 2:30pm

Peer Community Meetings

Spend the afternoon learning and sharing with your peers!
2:30pm Closing Remarks
3:00pm Adjournment

 

ABOUT DiSC

 

The DiSC Model and Workstyle Assessment is a simple yet powerful model that describes four basic behavioral styles: D, i, S, and C. Everyone is a blend of all four DiSC styles—usually, one, two, or even three styles stand out. Each person has a unique behavioral profile with different styles and priorities—no one style is better or worse than the next. Once you assess these differences and harness their value, better workplace communication AND healthier organizations become possible.

By understanding our own style, we can also take a look at how we can better work together with our colleagues.  Group discussion through this lens will create interesting dialogue about our work at the Y, and new ways of using each other’s talents and strengths, and even new strategies for brainstorming and conducting meetings together.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

 

Maribeth Mees is a longtime friend and super-fan of the YMCA. As a DiSC facilitator, she finds joy and inspiration in hearing how each person’s unique working style can thrive in the office or at home, and helping teams find connections that lift up great dialogue. In her current role at Stifel in St. Louis, Maribeth leads leadership, team and individual development initiatives for associates across the firm. Prior to this role, Maribeth served the Y movement spanning 13 years as the Executive Director of Leadership Development, a director of YUSA’s Training Partner Y program, and various Gateway Region roles in marketing, volunteerism and fundraising. Maribeth currently serves as a Board Member of the South City YMCA in the Gateway Region YMCA association and volunteers as Vice President of the Tower Grove Soccer Club. She spends free time with her family on beach & lake vacations, watching many children’s theatre performances and scrolling Instagram Reels of dogs and clumsy pandas.