FACILITATING POWER

The facilitator certification program prepares practitioners to skillfully facilitate processes that operationalize the Spectrum within community-government partnerships or in any space seeking to strengthen community voice, leadership, and shared governance. Through this cohort experience, participants will explore how the Spectrum can help:

• ACKNOWLEDGE & DISRUPT systemic marginalization embedded within current governance structures
• ADVANCE a clear and actionable vision for racial justice, inclusion, and community ownership
• GUIDE developmental processes that increase community capacity while reducing institutional barriers
• ASSESS progress toward authentic, equitable participation and shared governance
• SUPPORT community-driven solutions and nurture more inclusive, resilient, and democratic local systems

Cohort members will gain the tools and practices to design and facilitate workshops for the collaborative development of community engagement processes that shift power, strengthen partnerships, and build long-term community leadership.

Certification includes participation in the following sessions (in addition to communications in between sessions):

• May 20 | 1:30 - 4:00 Pm Pst | Online Orientation To The Certification Program
• June 15–17 | In-Person Training in Oakland Ca | Cultivating Culture Shift & Practicing Participatory Methods
• July 15 | 1:30 - 4:00 Pm Pst | Online Workshop #2: Designing & Facilitating An Introduction To The Framework
• August 26 | 1:30 - 4:00 Pm Pst | Online Workshop #3: Designing & Facilitating A Workshop On Community-Government Partnerships
• September 16 | 1:30 - 4:00 Pm Pst | Online Workshop #4: Designing & Facilitating A Workshop On Community Involvement Strategies

Some things to note:

• A certified facilitator of the Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership (SCEO) is prepared to facilitate processes in which groups are utilizing the SCEO to strengthen community involvement in the planning and decision making that affects them, and/or in campaigns for community-driven solutions to issues affecting them.
• A certified facilitator of the SCEO is prepared to facilitate workshops (for people participating in the processes described above) designed to: 1) Introduce the SCEO to the people participating in the processes described above and identify how they will apply it to a given effort; 2) Strengthen community-government collaborations to advance community-driven solutions to a given issue; 3) Co-develop and evaluate plans for community involvement in a given project, initiative, or campaign
• A certified facilitator is NOT prepared to train other facilitators in its usage or provide workshops on the SCEO outside of specific community-driven (or collaborative community-government) efforts that seek to put the SCEO into practice to strengthen community involvement and leadership in that effort.

This cohort is only open to those who applied by April 17th and were then invited into the cohort by Facilitating Power.