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Shape Your Path (Session 7) – Power Mapping: Strategizing Influence for Impact

Learn about power mapping and how you can use it for legislative, local, system and organizational advocacy in this seventh session of the Shape Your Path: Empowering New Physicians series.

Thursday, April 2, 2026

7:00 - 8:00 pm

Central Time

Online

Learn about power mapping and how you can use it for advocacy.

Have you ever wanted to create changes or move forward a policy or action on an issue? Developing a team, building relationships, considering power differentials and moving things forward takes attention, planning and an organizational strategy.

In this session, you will learn about power mapping—one community organizing strategy that leverages shared values, relationships and targeted messaging to influence movement on an issue. This technique can be used for legislative, local, system and organizational advocacy. (Session 7 of the Shape Your Path: Empowering New Physicians series.)

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Open to all AAFP members. No cost to participate.

Registration deadline is March 31, 2026. The Zoom meeting link will be provided by email the day before the session.

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Session 6: Strategies for Leveraging Health Care Teams (February 4, 2026)

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Presenter

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Katie Freeman, MD
Family physician, Bethesda Family Medicine Clinic

Freeman practices full spectrum family medicine, including obstetrics, at Bethesda Family Medicine Clinic in St. Paul. Her clinical passions include providing prenatal and obstetrical care, geriatrics and end-of-life care and treating overlapping chronic disease and mental health in refugees and immigrants.

Objectives

Define the component of a power map and consider various strategies to visualize players, existing relationships and power.
Consider your own relationships, partners and opportunities to build coalitions to create change.
Practice utilizing power-mapping tools around an example issue to map the situations and prioritize your strategic plan.

Continuing Medical Education

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Application for CME credit will be filed with the American Academy of Family Physicians. 1.00 AAFP Live Prescribed Credit will be requested.

Activity #108462: The AAFP has reviewed Shape Your Path: Empowering New Physicians Series and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of Approval is from 06/10/2025 to 04/3/2026. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This session, Power Mapping: Strategizing Influence for Impact, is approved for 1.00 AAFP Live Prescribed credit.

Partnership Opportunities

Help family medicine residents and early career family physicians gain essential tools and insights to confidently navigate the early years of their family medicine career by supporting this informative series. Limited to three partners.

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