Our popular short-course, offered in partnership with Engineers Without Borders – USA, is now available online! Combining live face-to-face discussions with offline content you can complete on your own schedule, this course makes our powerful community mobilization curriculum accessible to anyone with an internet connection.
“I’m thinking differently about how I can help our student chapter better prepare to talk with and interact with our community and local NGO. The Village Earth model should be of help to us as we move forward.”
“The number one benefit is just having a new, better formulated, and humbling perspective with which to approach development projects.”
This course will help you:
- Gain greater understanding of the different theories of community development from a social science perspective.
- Build stronger relationships with partner communities based on trust, solidarity and mutual accountability.
- Gain greater insight into the realities of people living in impoverished communities.
- Enhance clear and honest communication with communities.
- Promote better working relationships within your chapter.
- Learn and share experiences with other EWB chapters.
- More effectively manage the expectations of beneficiaries and donors.
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| Next Session Starts April 10th | Live sessions are held April 10, 12, 17, 19, 24 |
| Registration Deadline | April 6th, 2012 |
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| System Requirements | Mac or PC with web camera and earphones |
| Max Participants** | 15 |
We can also host a session just for your chapter or group. Contact David Bartecchi at david@villageearth.org or 970-237-3002 ext. 504 for more information.
*Through Colorado State University’s Department of Continuing Education we are able to offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for those working toward the Professional Engineer (P.E.) exam for $50 extra. For more information please inquire to kristina@villageearth.org or 970-237-3002 ext. 503.
** Village Earth reserves the right to cancel training sessions if we do not reach a minimum of 6 enrolled participants. In the event of a cancellation, participants who have already paid will be reimbursed.
Read more testimonials from past participants:
“The course was eye-opening as a platform for self-reflection as a group. It allowed me to learn more about the perspectives of my peers and understand, first-hand, the power of inter-group dialog.”
“I have learned important communication tools that will be useful in my future line of work (which directly involves facilitating discussions with indigenous groups)… Also, our EWB chapter was effectively strengthened through these interactions.”
“I feel like I am better able to understand our position in the community as a mediator and listener. I also feel like the participatory planning model is a great way of engaging what the community really wants and where our project fits into their vision for their village overall.”
“The overall process was good, but for my particular project, I got a lot of benefit from the the anecdotal examples from the facilitators own experiences. They helped me picture how we might better interact with the community for our project.”
“I really like the mapping and vision exercises. I’m hoping I can convince my superiors to invite IISD back this fall. I’ve been reading quite a bit about this style of community development and I thought it was really helpful to see it first hand. I also think the workshop convinced my peers that this is the model we need to adopt. I liked the facilitators way of going through the planning with us in order for us to understand what we are doing. It also helped us figure out ways we can improve our own organization.
“It made me realize that the most sustainable project is one that the community decides on implementing and to not just dive straight into a community and try to fix all their problems like an oppressor. Also, I realized that it takes a long time and commitment to really see a project succeed all the way through.”
