What does it take to build and contribute to meaningful and valuable community based projects and learning experiences? Find out through a variety of workshops designed to promote ethical community engagement and equip you with skills to create and deliver projects and initiatives. Topics include creating strategic project budgets, understanding community assets, and strengthening community partnerships, as well as how to scope a community based project and facilitate conversations. These workshops are open to everyone and provide participants a great environment to explore opportunities in and with community, as well as network with students across campus.
CCEL Workshops
Workshop offerings
These workshops may be requested by faculty, staff and student clubs or groups. Workshops can be leveraged as a development opportunity for student leaders, entrenched within a course or as a concurrent session during your event.
If your workshop request is for Summer 2018, you can expect a response in 2 weeks.
We are currently accepting workshops request for Winter 2018 Term 1:
- For non-faculty partners (i.e. campus partners and student groups), your deadline for workshop requests is July 11. You can expect a response from us by July 31.
- For faculty partners, your deadline for workshop requests is August 15. You can expect a response from us by September 4 or 3 weeks prior to your requested date, whichever comes first.
Below are the workshop details:
Applying for a Grant
Learn techniques to build a successful grant application
Description
Learn techniques to build a successful grant application for an on or off campus community project. Learn and practice the key components of grant application using a case study or your own project idea.
Learning Objectives
• Understand key terms of a grant application and budget
• Identify the key elements of preparing for and creating a successful grant application
• Practically interpret and assign budget line items, develop a work back plan, and an opportunity statement
Length: 110 min
Asset Based Community Development
Learn techniques to build from community strengths
Description
Participants will explore the concept of asset-based community development; a strengths based approach to innovative social change. Participants will practice “asset mapping” as a tool to support building community relationships.
Learning Objectives
• Understand the concept of asset-based community development and strengths based approaches to partnering with community
• Enhance capacity to enter community with curiosity and strengths based approaches
• Learn how to assess personal values, assumptions, judgements and knowledge of community spaces
Length: 120 min
Changemaker 101
Harness your passions and strengths to create change
Description
Learn what changemaking is, what it means for you. Participants will share passions and strengths and together will work to identify opportunities and ways to craft individual projects for social action.
Learning Objectives
• Articulate what it means to be a changemaker
• Explore possible platforms and ideas for changemaking activities
• Identify how personal skills, knowledge and passions can inform your changemaking journey
• Identify at least 2 next step resources/actions to move their idea forward
Length: 45 min or 90 min
Ethics of Changemaking
Learn strategies for ethical community engagement
Description
Participants will explore principles of ethical community engagement which will support their endeavors to create meaningful social change. Introducing “ethics” as a continuous process of action and reflection, participants will reflect on concepts such as inclusion, consultation and reciprocity while considering the ways we can enact these principles.
Learning Objectives
• Explore principles of ethical engagement including positionality and power
• Generate ideas on how to implement strategies of ethical engagement
Length: 120 min
Roots of Change
Understand the factors at play beneath complex social issues
Description
Participants will explore a single issue to better understand the larger system it is a part of and its impacts. Participants will explore strategies that can create positive change within a complex issue.
Learning Objectives
• Understand complexity of societal issues through assessing the immediate impacts, structural/institutional supports and its root causes.
• Develop strategies to apply analysis tools to issues participants care about
Length: 120 min
Storytelling for Change
Learn how to share your experience to inspire social action
Description
Participants will look at the role that stories play in social change work and will learn about the power of stories as tools for connection and reflection. Participants will learn how to develop and tell their own stories, as a strategy to move people to action.
Learning Objectives
• Explore the power of narratives and their place in social change work.
• Learn to identify or build or tell their own story, the story of our community, and the story of our call to action.
Length: 120 min
