Thursday August 26 and Friday August 27Location: Family Services Toronto - 355 Church St., Toronto (just south of Carlton - closest subway: College at Yonge)
Facilitators: chris cavanagh & Deborah Konecny
Make good use of the slower pace of summer programming and lighter network schedules to build your skills for the coming year.
Take part in two-days of intensive training to hone your planning and facilitation skills. You can Register for either or both.
The recommended fee for each workshop is $150 or Pay What You Can (and you can read about our fee policy below - we're serious about the PWYC - we accept all offers - assuming that enough is collectively offered to make the workshop viable).
TO REGISTER: Please e-mail us courses@catalystcentre.ca or phone 416-516-9546 and tell us your name, e-mail, phone number and what you would like to pay.
Thursday, August 26, - 9:30-4:30
DEMOCRATIC FACILITATION BY DESIGN
This popular day-long workshop will explore some of the principles and practices of good workshop design and facilitation. While it’s tempting to think that many group problems can be solved through better facilitation, many are better dealt with first through effective meeting design. Design is way to ensure that group processes are just, inclusive and effective while facilitation is learning to follow a design with flexibility and imagination. Through participatory activities you will learn new tools for design and facilitation, share issues and experiences - and have fun in the process!
Friday, August 27, 2010 - 9:30-4:30
Not Just a Bag ‘o Tricks – SMORGASBORD
popular education tools, techniques and thoughts
The popular educator Myles Horton said that education should percolate, not drip down. Popular education is a democratic practice of education rooted in social and economic justice struggle and intended to make social change. “Pop-ed” is sometimes thought of as simply a “bag of tricks” that promote conversation and reflection in a more “fun” way than conventional means – it’s not seen as being serious and purposeful. However, popular education (both the tools and the theory) is a radical means of analyzing power, oppression and resistance and collectively learning and acting in the context of community organizing.
From timelines, to energizers, to image theatre, to a political weather report, we will explore (and try out) a range of these tools and discuss how they can be used in different contexts. We will also talk a bit about facilitation and design and how they interact. Please come prepared to participate, to share your ideas, to listen and, hopefully, to have some fun.
OUR COURSES FEE POLICY - a different kind of economics
At the Catalyst Centre we strive to make all of our events affordable and accessible to everyone. Our fees reflect our costs and when we have grants to support our work, we can offer even more support to the community. However, the Catalyst Centre is currently supported only through our workshops and facilitation work.
All workshops are based on an optimum of 20 participants.
Our workshops are all offered with a recommended fee and include the option of Pay What You Can (PWYC). And we strongly recommend that as many people and organizations as possible pay the recommended fee which, of course, supports those individuals, organizations and communities who cannot afford the recommended fee. And, of course, anyone is welcome to pay more than the recommended if they wish. However, we sincerely hope that people will take seriously the spirit of “pay what you can” and honour their means whether this is limited or not.
PLEASE NOTE: each workshop must meet its revenue target in order to proceed and each workshop will be confirmed in advance based on registrations received or promised. (Any revenue in excess of targets will go towards other events.) If workshop registration does not meet a minimum revenue target, it will be canceled. However, a facilitator/presenter always has the option to confirm and proceed with an event regardless of low revenue by waving some or all of their fee.
Image courtesy of Eric Drooker
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