Building Capacity and Creating Connections through Workshops

Presentation Format

Interactive Workshop

Intended Audience

All Audiences

Program Abstract

Building Capacity and Creating Connections through Workshops is a presentation about Tulane’s series of workshops that aim to increase organizational capacity in and increase person development among its stakeholders. Tulane implements a variety of facilitation and presentation techniques to provide information, tutorials, networking opportunities and dialogues. These workshops are designed to engage Community Partners, faculty, staff, and students involved with service learning.

Presentation Description

This presentation will outline how Tulane University Center for Public Service’s (CPS) workshops are planned, implemented and evaluated. In addition, the presentation will feature an activity to help brainstorm ideas about how features of these workshops could be implemented to engage service learners, faculty and staff at other institutions. The Center for Public Service recruits staff of local community organizations who partner with our institution who are experts in different fields, to design and implement workshops for our Community Partners. Our past workshops have covered a variety of topics including; finance, program management, fundraising, onboarding students, coalition building, networking, maximizing service and learning outcomes and more. In addition, we also recruit students, faculty and staff to plan and implement workshops for service learning courses and internships seminars.

The workshops are built upon a variety of facilitation techniques derived from Liberating Structures by Henri Lipomaniwicz and Keith McCandless. Alongside the tactics outlined by the liberating structures we involve hybrid activities consistent of traditional presentations and engaging facilitations. The outcome of the workshop is to increase the capabilities of the attending Community Partners and assist them in stabilizing and stimulating their organizational capacity. Our on campus workshops stimulate dialogues of diversity, systemic structures in the community, service learning, impact, and inclusion. The presentation will outline these methods in more detail to provide a general blueprint for attendees who may want to accomplish similar goals with their Community Partners, service learners, staff and faculty. We will also provide a detailed walk through of how our workshops are planned, implemented and reviewed. This will include sample agendas, past results and

After the presentation is discussed, participants will engage in a facilitation activity to increase dialogue, generate ideas and engage the audience on what may be improved in our program, best practices at different institutions, or how applicable our practices may be at different institutions. The facilitation will change based on the audience of the room but the goal will be to identify how workshops may be modified to fit a variety of purposes, and how to improve this model to achieve a higher level of involvement from our Community Partners and other target groups.

The activities that may be used in this session are Troika Consulting or 1-2-4-All. Troika Consulting engages participants by using the resources already in the room to troubleshoot and create solutions. In Troika Consulting, individuals state an issue they are having with their program and the “consultants” (AKA the participants in that group) will generate solutions and best practices from their own experience. In 1-2-4-All Participants will be asked to generate questions, ideas and best practices first by themselves, then with a partner, later in groups of 4 and lastly we all come together to discuss the impactful solutions and common issues amongst the groups. By demonstrating and engaging the participants around the theme of the Toolkit series we will be showing how a facilitation is carried out and how effective it can be for participants and their respective interests.

Location

Room - 217

Start Date

4-14-2016 1:45 PM

End Date

4-14-2016 3:00 PM

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Apr 14th, 1:45 PM Apr 14th, 3:00 PM

Building Capacity and Creating Connections through Workshops

Room - 217

This presentation will outline how Tulane University Center for Public Service’s (CPS) workshops are planned, implemented and evaluated. In addition, the presentation will feature an activity to help brainstorm ideas about how features of these workshops could be implemented to engage service learners, faculty and staff at other institutions. The Center for Public Service recruits staff of local community organizations who partner with our institution who are experts in different fields, to design and implement workshops for our Community Partners. Our past workshops have covered a variety of topics including; finance, program management, fundraising, onboarding students, coalition building, networking, maximizing service and learning outcomes and more. In addition, we also recruit students, faculty and staff to plan and implement workshops for service learning courses and internships seminars.

The workshops are built upon a variety of facilitation techniques derived from Liberating Structures by Henri Lipomaniwicz and Keith McCandless. Alongside the tactics outlined by the liberating structures we involve hybrid activities consistent of traditional presentations and engaging facilitations. The outcome of the workshop is to increase the capabilities of the attending Community Partners and assist them in stabilizing and stimulating their organizational capacity. Our on campus workshops stimulate dialogues of diversity, systemic structures in the community, service learning, impact, and inclusion. The presentation will outline these methods in more detail to provide a general blueprint for attendees who may want to accomplish similar goals with their Community Partners, service learners, staff and faculty. We will also provide a detailed walk through of how our workshops are planned, implemented and reviewed. This will include sample agendas, past results and

After the presentation is discussed, participants will engage in a facilitation activity to increase dialogue, generate ideas and engage the audience on what may be improved in our program, best practices at different institutions, or how applicable our practices may be at different institutions. The facilitation will change based on the audience of the room but the goal will be to identify how workshops may be modified to fit a variety of purposes, and how to improve this model to achieve a higher level of involvement from our Community Partners and other target groups.

The activities that may be used in this session are Troika Consulting or 1-2-4-All. Troika Consulting engages participants by using the resources already in the room to troubleshoot and create solutions. In Troika Consulting, individuals state an issue they are having with their program and the “consultants” (AKA the participants in that group) will generate solutions and best practices from their own experience. In 1-2-4-All Participants will be asked to generate questions, ideas and best practices first by themselves, then with a partner, later in groups of 4 and lastly we all come together to discuss the impactful solutions and common issues amongst the groups. By demonstrating and engaging the participants around the theme of the Toolkit series we will be showing how a facilitation is carried out and how effective it can be for participants and their respective interests.