PTC Winter Line-Up 2012

Gatherings are open to the public and cost only $5-10 (sliding scale). Light refreshments are provided.
All gatherings are held from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
To RSVP, please email: phillycollaborative@gmail.com

Interactive Curriculum Design
Wednesday, January 25th
Facilitator: Sara Narva
Location: PhilaPosh, 3001 Walnut St., 5th Floor (AFSCME DC 33 building)

A lab within a lab! Sara Narva will facilitate an interactive process for collaborative curriculum design around the topic of socio-economic class and classism to generate creative ideas for teaching this subject. Participants will simultaneously learn about collaborative design as well as offer suggestions for Sara's curriculum. Sara will provide goals, parameters and guiding questions. In small groups, participants will design interactive, creative lessons for young people to explore issues of growing up with different amounts of resource and privilege. Through this experience, you will discover ways to do this kind of collaborative design for yourself on other topics.

Designing and Evaluating Effective Trainings
Wednesday, February 22nd
Facilitator: Jill Feldstein
Location: PhilaPosh, 3001 Walnut St., 5th Floor (AFSCME DC 33 building)

Building off of our January gathering on collaborative curriculum design, in February we will explore three phases of developing trainings and workshops: planning, executing and evaluating. In February's gathering we will pick apart these pieces, playing with interactive activities to explore ways to:

1). Help you get clear on what you want your trainings to achieve;
2). Creatively design trainings that help you meet your goals; and
3). Evaluate if/how you achieved your goals, utilizing feedback from training participants and the planning team.

Stories for Change
Wednesday, March 28th
Facilitator: Mark Lyons
Location: PhilaPosh, 3001 Walnut St., 5th Floor (AFSCME DC 33 building)

Mark Lyons will lead a workshop on using stories to organize for social change. Sharing stories within a community helps people begin to trust each other, to reflect on their common experiences and honor their dreams and risks they have taken. When a community takes their stories to the streets or City Hall or the media, they have a voice; their stories give them power. We will learn how to frame a story about a specific issue, how to ask questions and do active listening that encourage people to tell vivid stories about their experience, and discuss the possibilities of doing storytelling in our own work. We will also review some basic tools for creating audio stories.