Reminder that Registration is Coming Soon for Cultivating Powerful Participation
Jamie Bain
Registration is coming soon for a new professional development opportunity from UMN Extension in collaboration with a diverse group of social justice advocates.
This opportunity builds off the successful Cultivating Powerful Participation workshops held in 2019-2020. This online learning opportunity is intended for public health practitioners and those interested in developing their skills to advance social justice in their work to build healthier, more vibrant Minnesota communities.
Now more than ever, we need leaders who can take an intersectional, trauma-informed, antiracist approach to their work to advance public health. To do this leaders need to have the relationships, skills, and knowledge to design and facilitate participatory processes that result in unique, collaborative, and transformative solutions. Cultivating Powerful Participation is a professional development program designed to teach leaders these practical skills.
This series includes six, two hour learning experiences, where you will build competency in facilitating social justice work. Each learning experience will focus on one topic related to social justice and include a mindfulness-based healing practice, reflective conversations within a smaller learning circle and learning a facilitation technique. You will participate in the same learning circle throughout this series which will support the development of relationships among participants on a similar place in their antiracist journey. There will also be pre-work and homework for each workshop. Participants will be expected to attend all the events if they register for this opportunity.
Cultivating Powerful Participation is structured to provide you a safe space to get uncomfortable and show up in brave and vulnerable ways, while at the same time building skills for action. This is not meant to be an introductory diversity, equity and inclusion ’101’ course. It is a deeper dive for participants looking to strengthen their social justice and facilitation practices in a relationship-driven setting. Our goal is to provide a potent space for you to grow and transform with others that are excited to advance social justice in public health spaces in MN.
Save the Dates
Here is the workshop schedule for this learning experience:
Orientation, September 2nd, 2:00 - 3:15
Historical Trauma, September 8th, 1:00 - 3:00
Trauma-informed Approaches, September 22nd, 1:00 - 3:00
Conflict Resolution, Oct 6th, 1:00 - 3:00
White Supremacy Culture, Oct 20th, 1:00 - 3:00
Power, Nov 3rd, 1:00 - 3:00
Radical Participation, Nov 17th, 1:00 - 3:00
Please save all of these dates if you are planning to attend this learning experience. Registration for this learning experience is free and paid for by the Minnesota Department of Health Office of Statewide Health Improvement Partnerships (SHIP). Registration will open on July 12th at 9am for a cohort of 60 participants. This will be a first come, first serve registration process. We expect there to be a waiting list. However, we will hold spots for BIPOC community partners to register until the end of August.
Meet the Design Team:
UMN Extension: Jamie Bain, June Blue, Laura Bohen, Noelle Harden, Stephanie Heim, Jocelyn Hernandez-Swanson, Briana Michels, Shirley Nordrum, Chelsea Williams
Public health partners: Jason Bergstrand (Partnership for Health), William Moore (Ramsey Co SHIP), Shor Salkas (MDH)
Social justice partners: Susan Phillips, Leah Porter, Magdalena Kaluza, Miah Ulysse
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Jamie Bain, MPH
Extension Educator
