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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.
New! Climate Change: Building Shared Leadership for Climate Action
BC Healthy Communities offers a range of workshops and consulting services on community engagement for climate action and sustainability. For more information click here
- Local Government Climate Action Bootcamps. Click here for workshop description
- Community Engagement for Climate Action. Click here for workshop description
- Climate Change and Behaviour Change. Click here for workshop description
- Customized Workshops. For more information on workshops to meet your specific organizational or community needs, contact: Kerri Klein or Stacy Barter
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.
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.
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.
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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