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Programs > Friends of Taos Institute Workshops
Imagine: Frameworks for Inspiring Community Engagement | March 12-14
Target Audience: All
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Presented by: Bliss Browne
Co-sponsored by: Imagine Chicago
Description:
Hands-on, “train-the-trainer” workshop in applying Imagine Chicago’s
development frameworks, tools, and facilitation practices for team
building and community development.
Want to inspire engagement and creativity and create a culture of hope in your organization or community?
Looking for a better way to focus priorities? Seeking ways to align
around a shared goal and build momentum for action? Discover the power
and effectiveness of Appreciative Inquiry and Imagine Chicago’s
pioneering frameworks for building community.
Imagine Chicago’s proven frameworks for inspiring community engagement
will be taught by Bliss Browne, President of Imagine Chicago, who
pioneered them. This is a highly interactive workshop where you will
learn and apply effective strategies and tools for creating effective
intergenerational partnerships ensuring reliably constructive
experiences of difference attracting and including “hard to reach”
populations strengthening public/private collaborations, including
school community connections shifting (and helping others shift) from
deficit-based to strength based mindsets and communications, including
the use of Appreciative Inquiry accelerating civic imagination through
the use of arts-based activities empowering citizen leadership of all
ages
Each participant will receive a toolkit of practice examples, case studies and tools for Inspiring Community Change
including many examples of applying Appreciative Inquiry to community
regeneration. Come learn and practice creative ways to elicit vision
and hope, build on strengths, and inspire engagement and action.
Cost of $1000 per workshop includes training materials in electronic
format with permission to adapt them for use in other settings.
Early bird discount of $100 before February 28.
Register online at www.imaginechicago.org
Space limited to 15 participants.
For further information please contact:
Ph: 1-773-275-2520
Email: info@imaginechicago.org
Website: www.imaginechicago.org