On November 6-8, we are convening community change practitioners in Kitchener, Ontario to explore the next generation of community engagement principles and practices. We convened this workshop earlier this year in March in Vancouver and we are hosting it again on the east side of the country because people have been asking for it!

The agenda for Community Engagement: The Next Generation is structured with a blend of learning modules, workshops, immersive community tours and hands-on tool sessions for you to learn, brainstorm, share, and implement. You’ll learn:

• Hands-on, interactive practice of engagement techniques and technology
• Theoretical frameworks for engagement, systems change and movement building
• Exposure to cutting edge technologies to make your engagement work easier and more effective
• The latest in interviewing, facilitation and dialogue techniques
• The opportunity to experience creative engagement techniques using theatre and the arts
• How to engage polarized audiences and combat cynicism
• Practical examples and in-depth case studies from municipalities, community organizations, provincial (state) government and corporations

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Do you manage programs that need to be evaluated? Are you part of a collaborative that is trying to understand how to evaluate your work? Are you a community development professional who wants to make the connection between learning and community change? If so, this workshop may be right for you.

Highlights will include:

• Three frameworks to organize and communicate the “progress” of community change initiatives
• Four scenarios for using hard and soft indicators to capture outcomes
• A new method for demonstrating a group’s contribution – rather than attribution – to outcomes
• Five aides to improve the chances that social innovators and evaluators develop evaluations that are used
• A continuum of strategy – ranging from emergent to traditional – and their implications for evaluation

This is the final time the Evaluating Community Impact workshop will be offered.  If you are interested in evaluating community change and impact, you will not want to miss this. 

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