3 Day ABCD Masterclass, UJ

ASSET BASED CITIZEN-LED (COMMUNITY) DEVELOPMENT (ABCD) MASTERCLASS
Dates: Wednesday 15th August – Friday 17th August 2018
Venue: UJ, Kingsway Campus
Facilitators: Janine Ward & Anne Timms (SPACE 4 Impact)
Early Bird: R2 500 (book and pay before 15th July)
Normal Fee: R2 850.00
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PRACTITIONERS, NGO's, CBO's, FBO's, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS, COMMUNITY LEADERS AND CSI PRACTITIONERS ... THIS MASTERCLASS IS FOR YOU!
For more information or to register, please contact: timmsanne@gmail.com and/or jwinspace@gmail.com
MASTERCLASS CONTENT:
THE WHAT: Experience how to blend ABCD with a range of powerful strengths-based approaches to community work and complementary methodologies to create powerful outcomes.
Leave with practical tools & skills on how to:
• Focus on assets and strengths rather than deficiencies
• Discover ways to blend methodologies
• Apply strengths-based monitoring and evaluation
• Build effective partnership strategies
• Increase confidence in hosting group work
• Form powerful enquiries and proposals
• Explore group dynamics and decision-making
• Build, maintain and restore trust in communities
• Personal Development
• Leadership Styles
THE WHY: Many of the challenges faced by individuals and communities require transformational change, which can only be achieved by focusing on the strengths within.
Tools to access these strengths include:
• Citizen & Community-led Initiatives
• Asset-based projects
• Collective Impact & Action work
• Collaboration & Community Conversations
THE HOW: Learn ways to weave, embed and sustain ABCD and other strengths-based and participatory practices through co-design and collaboration processes. We will show you how to move from dialogue to action and how to discover ways to address complex challenges via innovative solutions.
Including:
• Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD)
• Change and/or Social Labs
• Art of Hosting & Harvesting Conversations & Work that Matters
• Circle Methodology
• World Café
• Open Space Technology
• Appreciative Inquiry & SOAR
• Graphic Harvesting
• DEC Thinking & Breath Patterns
• Presenting & Theory U
• Next Stage Organizing