CLD Workshops
Inspiring Communities’ suite of CLD skills workshops are designed to strengthen your community-led practice and local connections in a dynamic group environment. These can be delivered in place or online for groups or teams.
Whaowhia te kete mātauranga. Fill the basket of knowledge.
Our CLD training opportunities are based on our core principles of collaboration, diversity and local leadership where everyone is enabled to apply their strengths. Our workshops offer you insights in the many tools the CLD way of working can offer to support and strengthen your mahi in your community. Each workshop is led by one of our skilled facilitators working across a variety of community-led projects.
Inspiring Communities has a suite of skills workshops that are designed to strengthen your community-led practice and local connections. If you are interested in co-hosting a workshop with us in 2024, please contact our team on kiaora@inspiringcommunities.org.nz.
Getting Started in Community-Led Development Online Workshop
Join us for an engaging and interactive online workshop where we delve into community-led development in your unique context. Whether you’re new to this approach or seeking to bring a community-led mindset into your projects, this session will support you with the skills and tools needed to kickstart your community-led initiatives.
Community-led approaches offer great freedom as there is no strict formula for how things should be done. While there are numerous possible starting points, some key skills and tools can empower you to kickstart your community-led initiatives.
In this 2.5 hour workshop, we will design powerful questions that unlock potential and explore effective community engagement strategies. You’ll be inspired to frame questions through a strengths-based lens, explore the art of stakeholder mapping, and discover innovative approaches to community involvement.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have:
- A fresh perspective on framing questions to harness strengths
- A practical stakeholder mapping process
- New ideas for community engagement strategies and how to activate these insights
Throughout the session you will have the opportunity to connect with others from across Aotearoa, and learn from the experiences of other communities that are beginning their community-led journey.
Date: Tuesday 17 September, 2024
Time: 9:30am – 12:00pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Cost:
- $74.75 (incl. GST) for community organisations and groups – discounted to $63.25 (incl. GST) for 2 or more from the same organisation
- $182.85 (incl. GST) for central/local government, private sector and funders – discounted to $166.75 (incl. GST) for 2 or more from the same organisation
Follow-up coaching
Included in the workshop fee is a follow-up coaching session one month after the workshop. You will be given the choice of one of 2 dates to attend and to deepen your understanding of your community-led practice post this workshop.
About your facilitator
Supporting the growth of strong and resilient communities is at the heart of Anna’s mahi. Anna has diverse experience of grassroots community development – having worked on peace building efforts with indigenous women leaders in Bougainville (PNG) to activating the community-led vision for the Valley Project in North Dunedin. Youth development is a particular passion – often Anna is called in to build processes with young people from the ground up – and to enhance the ways groups and organisations work with young people.
Anna is a reflective practitioner and a systems thinker committed to social justice. Anna thrives when working cross-culturally and enjoys supporting communities to navigate their journey with Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Currently Anna is director of Mātāwai Consultancy and supports a number of Otago based organisations to think strategically and grow their impact. Mātāwai offers facilitation, mentoring, strategic advice, research, Te Tiriti o Waitangi education, event and project management.
Originally from Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Anna has called Ōtepoti/Dunedin her family home for more than 10 years.
Working Together in Community-led Change – Blenheim Workshop
Inspiring Communities, Volunteer Marlborough, REAP Marlborough and Marlborough District Council present this CLD Skills Workshop – Working Together in Community-Led Change
A community thrives when locals connect and collaborate to realise the potential of their place. Partnering enables us to unlock resources, create new ideas, leverage our strengths, and creatively mobilise to tackle both complex challenges and opportunities.
This workshop will help you:
- Identify new allies, connections, and strategies for ‘joining up’
- Expand your capacity to hold and maintain diverse relationships
- Strengthen your partnering approach
- Prioritise your time and relationship investment
- Apply tools to build trust and sustain stakeholder relationships
- Establish steps to map and tap into the strengths of your wider community
Date: Tuesday 17 September, 2024
Time: 9:30am – 4:00pm
Venue: Lansdowne Sports hub (meeting room upstairs, 6 Lansdowne Street, Mayfield, Blenheim)
Cost:
- $79 plus GST for community organisations
- $215 plus GST for central/local government, private sector and funders
Meet your facilitator: Kindra is driven by seeing movement in individuals, groups and communities to generate change. With a background in working for affordable housing, trained as both a teacher and a counsellor, founding chair of Nelson Tasman Housing Trust in 2004, and founding Director of the Victory Community Centre in 2007, she is a person who’s not afraid to look through a different lens to bring people together. Kindra offers her Pathways to Power personal development course to women in Nelson, is an active Trustee on Community Action Nelson where they advance perception changes in different ways to be housed, and how more affordable housing can be created. With a full and rich professional career in collaborating and connecting people, Kindra is always looking for ways to connect communities and help them find ways to look after their people.
Need to know
Tea, Coffee, and Morning/Afternoon Tea provided. There will also be a simple “construct-your-own” lunch from what we provide. Bring your own lunch if there are food restrictions.
Thanks to
This event is co-hosted by Volunteer Marlborough, REAP Marlborough and Marlborough District Council and made by possible by Rātā Foundation.
Our public workshops will be listed on this page as they are planned. In the meantime, you can download our pānui (flyer) for more general information about our CLD workshops here.
Please refer to our cancellation policy