3 Days ABCD Masterclass : UJ, Johannesburg

ASSET BASED CITIZEN-LED (COMMUNITY) DEVELOPMENT (ABCD) MASTERCLASS Dates: Wednesday 23rd May – Friday 25th May 2018 Venue: To be confirmed Facilitators: Janine Ward & Anne Timms (SPACE 4 Impact) Cost: 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