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BC Healthy Communities offers a series of workshops aimed to support groups and organizations to be more intentional and effective in their community building initiatives. They are delivered by a knowledgeable facilitators who will work with you to design workshop outcomes to meet your needs and interests.
If you are interested in receiving a workshop, please contact BCHC Central Office at bchc@bchealthycommunities.ca.
From Silos to Systems: The Healthy Communities Approach to Community Capacity Building
This workshop introduces the BC Healthy Communities Integral Capacity Building Framework and creates space for a discussion about how capacity building can enhance healthy development in your community. Participants can expect to:
- Learn about the Integral Approach and how it can help to more fully understand causes and consequences of complex community issues;
- Understand how to consider and integrate interior aspects of community (such as values, worldviews and perspectives) with exterior influences in community (such as economic, physical, social systems) as part of a comprehensive community development strategy;
- Become clearer (personally and organizationally) about your own intentions and strategies for enhancing community capacity through your work.
New! Healthy People. Healthy Communities. Integrated Practices for Health and Wellness
BC Healthy Communities is provincial initiative that is based on the World Health Organizations foundational principles for successful healthy communities initiatives. Working with individuals and communities across the province, BCHC brings an integral approach to individual and community health and wellness. For communities to be healthy, we must first look to the health of individuals- their:physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual and cultural health. This interactive and practical workshop will give you insight and ideas on how to grow and develop to your fullest capacities with freedom and ease in the places where you live, work and play. This workshop will focus on a comprehensive cross training approach for increasing your effectiveness and balance in all areas of your life.
New! Workshop series for Local governments
Climate Action Bootcamp: Commitments, Practical Actions and Community Engagement for Climate Actions
The Community Energy Association and BC Healthy Communities are offering these comprehensive workshops to local governments in BC communities who want to build their capacity to develop and lead a climate change action strategy. The workshop includes a focus on technical topics such as understanding climate change and its regional consequences, provincial and local policy commitments (ie. Climate Action Charter, carbon neutrality, Bill 27, etc.), greenhouse gas inventories, offsets, target setting and economic opportunities and considerations. The workshops also include a focus on engaging your community in your climate change strategies with topics including engagement approaches, communicating with diverse citizens, understanding behaviour change and integrating engagement into current initiatives and strategies.
The Community Energy Association and BC Healthy Communities are offering these comprehensive workshops to local governments in BC communities who want to build their capacity to develop and lead a climate change action strategy. The workshop includes a focus on technical topics such as understanding climate change and its regional consequences, provincial and local policy commitments (ie. Climate Action Charter, carbon neutrality, Bill 27, etc.), greenhouse gas inventories, offsets, target setting and economic opportunities and considerations. The workshops also include a focus on engaging your community in your climate change strategies with topics including engagement approaches, communicating with diverse citizens, understanding behaviour change and integrating engagement into current initiatives and strategies.
These workshops are adaptable to any knowledge level, from beginner to advanced.
For more information on pricing and content or to book a bootcamp for your community, contact: Kerri Klein, BC Healthy Communities: kerri@bchealthycommunities.ca
Download a description here
Engaging Your Community on Climate Change: An Integral Approach
Is your local government or organization keen to contribute to community-wide approaches that respond to climate change? Are you ready to think beyond the borders of your own buildings and operations?
Climate change is more than simply a technical or planning issue. It touches all aspects of communities. Residents and community organizations have a critical role to play in achieving emissions reductions, and engagement needs to be an intentional and explicit component of a climate action strategy. This workshop introduces a comprehensive framework to consider climate change and community engagement, emphasizing capacity building and the development of resilient communities. It will enable participants to link current climate change activities to specific tools and approaches for public engagement.
Participants will clarify their community needs around engagement, and deepen their understanding of how to communicate and engage with diverse communities to catalyze behaviour change. You will leave with a sense of how and when community engagement can be of value to climate action strategy, and what the next steps are. This workshop is practical and experiential.
Download a description here
New! Developing Communities, Developing Ourselves: Citizenship & Community Development
Often community development work relies on the active participation of local people to influence a desired change. We rely on active and engaged citizens as a critical part of our development work. But, how do we intentionally and explicitly include citizenship development as part of community development?
Participants can expect to:
- Make the links between personal empowerment and social change
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Explore diverse influences and motivations for participation
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Participate in exercises for integrating citizenship development strategies into community initiatives.
New! Getting to the Root of it: Influencing Change that Matters
Influencing change in communities is complex work that doesn’t come with a manual. Do you sometimes feel like you are lost in the busyness of day to day tasks? Do you feel like you need to step back and reconnect with the bigger systemic change you are trying to influence?
This workshop will:
- Generate dialogue to articulate a theory of change and links to broader outcomes participants would like to achieve
- Lead participants through a process that uncovers the ‘questions that matter’ for the change you are trying to influence in your community
- Generate dialogue to articulate a theory of change and links to broader outcomes participants would like to achieve
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