Citizens at the Centre is a special one-day workshop with Max Hardy, a leading Australian Community Engagement consultant, along with Liz Weaver and Sylvia Cheuy of the Tamarack Institute to learn core principles and innovative practices to better engage your community.

Drawing on case studies from Australia and Canada, as well as techniques and activities that demonstrate alternative ways to meaningfully engage communities/citizens throughout the lifespan of your project, workshop participants will leave with the confidence to design and lead efforts to generate effective solutions to address our most challenging community issues.

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Evaluation + Design: Evaluating Systems Change is a two-day workshop designed to help you integrate innovation and design techniques with developmental evaluation. By combining both design and evaluation techniques, you'll return to your organization with a diverse toolset that will boost your capacity to drive and evaluate changes to the systems that form the base of complex community challenges.

Featuring Mark Cabaj, Galen MacLusky, and a special guest address from evaluation pioneer Michael Quinn Patton, this workshop is coming to Ottawa, ON May 22-23.

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This workshop will gather together over 250 community and neighbourhood development practitioners to explore the use of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) and explore leading neighbourhood revitalizing techniques. For the first time, we have brought together seven of the world’s top authors and practitioners in the field who will offer the opportunity for learners to earn a masterclass certificate in either Asset-Based Community Development or Neighbourhood Revitalization.

This event is co-hosted with the City of Edmonton.

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