Getting started in Community-Led Development (CLD)
Welcome to the beginning of your community-led development journey!
Here, you’ll find foundational workshops and learning opportunities designed to introduce you to the principles and practices of community-led development. This is the perfect place to start building your understanding and skills.
Foundations in community-led development
Inspiring Communities has developed this learning module to bring together key ideas, resources and tools for people working in all kinds of community-led development roles.
Our self-paced Foundations of Community-Led Development module is a great place to start your journey. You’ll explore the values and principles behind this way of working, the role of Te Tiriti in shaping practice, and simple tools to support locally-led action in your place, along with real stories of change from communities across Aotearoa. This course includes 40 lessons, videos, a workbook, and practical resources to support your learning journey.
Online, self-paced
4-5 hours
Cost involved
Getting started in community-led development
Join us for an engaging and interactive online workshop designed to help you take the next step in your community-led development journey, wherever you’re starting from.
This session is ideal whether you’re completely new to CLD or looking to bring more community-led thinking into your current projects. There are no prerequisites; just bring your curiosity and your context. You’ll leave with practical tools and greater confidence to kickstart or strengthen your community-led initiatives.
Across 2.5 hours, we’ll explore how to design powerful, strengths-based questions that unlock potential, and we’ll dive into simple but effective approaches for community engagement. You’ll learn the basics of stakeholder mapping, practice thinking through a CLD lens, and discover creative ways to involve people meaningfully in your mahi.
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Can’t make our scheduled public workshops? No problem! We offer the flexibility to deliver any of our workshops privately for your group or organisation. Email us at kiaora@inspiringcommunities.org.nz to enquire about a private workshop.
Online workshop
2.5 hours
Cost involved
Webinars
Explore community innovation anytime!
Get started with community-led development (CLD) through our collection of hour-long webinars, an easy way to learn the basics and see what CLD looks like in real life.
Each webinar offers down-to-earth examples from communities across Aotearoa, sharing what’s worked, what’s been tricky, and how people have navigated real challenges.
If you would like to join us online as a guest speaker or to share your own community-led story, we would love to hear from you.
Online
1 hour
Free
Whaowhia te kete mātauranga. Fill the basket of knowledge.
We honour all those communities and organisations who have shared their practice and wisdom with us to create these training and development opportunities. We hope this kete of tools affirms what you already know and do, and expands your learning about the diverse ways Aotearoa communities can – and are – creating positive change.
Should you be unable to attend any of our events, please refer to our Cancellation Policy