Registration is open for the Spring 2024 Facilitator Workshop

The Creative Strategies for Change Facilitator Workshop is taking place April 5th – 7th

This immersive workshop delves deep into the CSC 3 model, integrating social justice frameworks, arts engagement, and restorative practices. Here is a breakdown of the three-day weekend. Attendance of all three sessions is required and food is provided.

● Friday, April 5th – 4:30 pm – 8:30 pm MST
● Saturday, April 6th – 10:00 am – 6:00 pm MS
● Sunday, April 7th – 10:00 am – 4:00 pm MST

This workshop will be in person from April 5th – 7th. Our Facilitator Workshop is not just for facilitators, but for anyone who wants to build creative skills for equity and liberation and cultivate community and authentic relationships. Participants will engage with incredible tools for understanding and navigating one’s life experience, and building skills to successfully communicate with others around challenging topics. Folks walk away with new creative facilitation techniques, a fresh understanding of oneself within the larger world, knowledge of social justice and restorative practices, a new language to use around tough topics, and the confidence to make a unique mark on the world! Here are some reflections from past participants:

With this model, I am better able to serve my community create opportunities, and shape policies and procedures in my workplace and organization.”

“I love the holistic engagement shared with us through arts and popular education methods. I already wanted to learn about these tools and now I am even more inspired!”

“I have many new tools to use as a leader within my organization.”

Register by February 23rd and use promo code “earlybird24” at checkout to enjoy a $50 discount. The workshop fee is on a sliding scale from $200 to $350. We also offer a special rate of $750 for small organizations, allowing 3-4 team members to participate. If you are seeking financial support we provide work exchange opportunities for all and scholarships for BIPOC individuals. 

Winter 2023 Facilitator Workshop Registration Open!

The Creative Strategies for Change Facilitator Workshop is taking place the first weekend of December 1st – 3rd, 2023!

Enrich your winter plans by dedicating these weekends to building wellness-centered skills for social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Registration is open for this in-person professional development opportunity! 

At this event, you’ll learn from facilitators who are experts in the fields of equity and social justice, experience facilitation techniques to utilize in your own work, family, and community. Use incredible tools to understand and navigate your own life experience, as well as build skills to successfully communicate with others around challenging topics.

This immersive, interactive, and impactful weekend experience will grow your knowledge of self, identity, power, oppression, liberation, and the many factors that make up the context in which we live and why that all matters.

We’ll examine power, privilege, and oppression in profound ways, and also learn how to achieve the antidote: liberation!

Attendees of the workshop often leave with new friends, networking connections, and an expanded view of their own work in the world. The folks in the room tend to be from all different backgrounds, professional fields, and each person’s life path adds to the collective experience of the workshop.  For this reason, we recommend past attendees to come again– the group is different every time, and thus, so is the experience.

You’ll walk away with new creative facilitation techniques, a fresh understanding of yourself and your place in the world, knowledge of social justice and restorative practices, new language to use around tough topics, and the confidence to make your own unique mark on the world!

Here’s what some of our past attendees have said:

“Wonderful. Deep. Creative. Thank you.”

“The workshop was phenomenal and truly a gift. The information present far exceeded my expectations in depth and clarity.”

“The artistic expression and interactive games truly highlighted concepts that I otherwise would have had a hard time explaining to constituents in classrooms.”

“Thank you so much for your creativity. Your content was wonderful, but *how* you taught the content really made an impression.”

“This was an amazing workshop! The facilitators were amazing and the experience proved to be inclusive not just across our identities, but our experiences as well.”

“All of the creative practices were meaningful and powerful from the beautiful rituals that were employed to the fun and energizing exercises and games we experienced. The sharing in circles were very meaningful and within this particular group I experienced a wonderful healing energy and beautiful expression of blended peoples voices and hearts.” 

Early Bird Rate ends October 27th use promo code earlybird23 at checkout to get $50 off!

Fall 2023 Community ACT Institute *Registration is OPEN*

Registration for our Fall 2023 Community ACT Institute opens August 7th. This ACT program will be held virtual via Zoom.

What is ACT? 🎨

Designed for students aged 13-18, ACT’s curricula uniquely combines the arts, social justice, and social-emotional learning, allowing teens to deeply understand themselves, their art, and the communities they interact with daily all while being paid.

Wait…did you say paid? 💰

Yes, paid! Community ACT Institute requires deep work, and participants deserve compensation for their time and artistic expertise! Participants commit to meet two hours a day after school (Monday through Friday), for two weeks and will receive a $200 stipend with the opportunity of receiving $25 extra if they attend our Community Cypher that month!

Summer 2023 Community ACT Institute *Registration is OPEN*

Registration for our Summer 2023 Community ACT Institute opens March 27th with the last day of registration is May 29th. This ACT program will be held in person at 2900 N Downing, Ste 1B and Ford Warren Public Library June 5th – 16th.

What is ACT? 🎨

Designed for students aged 13-18, ACT’s curricula uniquely combines the arts, social justice, and social-emotional learning, allowing teens to deeply understand themselves, their art, and the communities they interact with daily all while being paid.

Wait…did you say paid? 💰

Yes, paid! Community ACT Institute requires deep work, and participants deserve compensation for their time and artistic expertise! Participants commit to meet two hours a day after school (Monday through Friday), for two weeks and will receive a $200 stipend with the opportunity of receiving $25 extra if they attend our Community Cypher that month!

Scan the QR code or click the button below to register today!

Spring 2023 Facilitator Workshop *Registration Open*

The Creative Strategies for Change Facilitator Workshop is taking place over two weekends May 5th – 7th and 12th-13th, 2023!

Enrich your spring plans by dedicating these weekends to building wellness-centered skills for social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Registration is open for this virtual professional development opportunity! 

At this event, you’ll learn from facilitators who are experts in the fields of equity and social justice, experience facilitation techniques to utilize in your own work, family, and community. Use incredible tools to understand and navigate your own life experience, as well as build skills to successfully communicate with others around challenging topics.

This immersive, interactive, and impactful two weekend experience will grow your knowledge of self, identity, power, oppression, liberation, and the many factors that make up the context in which we live and why that all matters.

We’ll examine power, privilege, and oppression in profound ways, and also learn how to achieve the antidote: liberation!

Attendees of the workshop often leave with new friends, networking connections, and an expanded view of their own work in the world. The folks in the room tend to be from all different backgrounds, professional fields, and each person’s life path adds to the collective experience of the workshop.  For this reason, we recommend past attendees to come again– the group is different every time, and thus, so is the experience.

You’ll walk away with new creative facilitation techniques, a fresh understanding of yourself and your place in the world, knowledge of social justice and restorative practices, new language to use around tough topics, and the confidence to make your own unique mark on the world!

Here’s what some of our past attendees have said:

“I’ve been in a lot of virtual webinars, classes and meetings and I have to say this was the most engaging, thoughtful and creative experience on Zoom yet!”

“Wonderful. Deep. Creative. Thank you.”

“The workshop was phenomenal and truly a gift. The information present far exceeded my expectations in depth and clarity.”

“The artistic expression and interactive games truly highlighted concepts that I otherwise would have had a hard time explaining to constituents in classrooms.”

“Thank you so much for your creativity. Your content was wonderful, but *how* you taught the content really made an impression.”

“This was an amazing workshop! The facilitators were amazing and the experience proved to be inclusive not just across our identities, but our experiences as well.”

“All of the creative practices were meaningful and powerful from the beautiful rituals that were employed to the fun and energizing exercises and games we experienced. The sharing in circles were very meaningful and within this particular group I experienced a wonderful healing energy and beautiful expression of blended peoples voices and hearts.” 

Early Bird Rates close April 7th use promo code earlybird23 at checkout to get $50 off!

A Decade of Decolonization – Kickoff Friendraiser

⚫ DECADE OF DECOLONIZATION⚫️

Creative Strategies for Change is celebrating 10 years of embodied decolonization work that we have been doing in community over the last decade. We are SO excited to celebrate in community with you all again during this “friend-raiser” event. Our February Kickoff will be a bit different from our previous cyphers with the inclusion of: •FEATURES • SILENT AUCTION • CATERED EVENT • OPEN MIC

Decade of Decolonization – 10 year anniversary kickoff event! Thurs, Feb 16th 6:30PM -9 PM

$5-$35 sliding scale tickets

Decade of Decolonization – 10 year KICKOFF – February “Friendraiser”

We are kicking off our 10 year anniversary at our February Community Cypher with food, vendors, a silent auction and artistic features!

Join us Thursday, February 16th from 6:30 pm to 9 pm where we will have various artists perform as well as food and vendors from the Denver community. This will be part celebration, part open mic/performances extravaganza, part fundraiser and all love filled for making it to this milestone in our organization.

This will be the first event of the year where we will celebrate the embodied decolonization work we have been doing in the community over the last decade. We are SO excited to celebrate in community with you all again during this “friend-raiser” event. This will be a ticketed event with tickets available for purchase on a sliding scale of $5 – $35.

Spring 2023 Community ACT Institute *Registration is OPEN*

Registration for our Spring 2023 Community ACT Institute opens January 4th with the last day of registration being March 6th. This ACT program will be held virtually March 13th – March 24th

What is ACT? 🎨

Designed for students aged 13-18, ACT’s curricula uniquely combines the arts, social justice, and social-emotional learning, allowing teens to deeply understand themselves, their art, and the communities they interact with daily all while being paid.

Wait…did you say paid? 💰

Yes, paid! Community ACT Institute requires deep work, and participants deserve compensation for their time and artistic expertise! Participants commit to meet two hours a day after school (Monday through Friday), for two weeks and will receive a $200 stipend with the opportunity of receiving $25 extra if they attend our Community Cypher that month!

Scan the QR code or click the button below to register today!

Creative Strategies for Change Facilitator Workshop: Experience healing and growth through this amazing workshop!

The Creative Strategies for Change Facilitator Workshop is taking place January 14-22, 2022!

Join us for this immersive workshop building relationships and community rooted in racial equity. Engage with incredible tools for understanding and navigating one’s life experience, and build skills to successfully communicate with others around challenging topics. This interactive and impactful experience will grow participants’ knowledge of self, identity, power, oppression, liberation, and the many factors that make up the context in which we live… and why that all matters. Folks walk away with new creative facilitation techniques, a fresh understanding of oneself within the larger world, knowledge of social justice and restorative practices, new language to use around tough topics, and the confidence to make a unique mark on the world! Our Facilitator Workshops occur quarterly and are registration-based.

What participants are saying:

“With this model, I am better able to serve my community and create opportunities and shape policies and procedures in my workplace and organization.”

“I’ve been in a lot of virtual webinars, classes and meetings and I have to say this was the most engaging, thoughtful and creative experience on Zoom yet!”

“All of the creative practices were meaningful and powerful from the beautiful rituals that were employed to the fun and energizing exercises and games we experienced. The sharing in circles were very meaningful and within this particular group I experienced a wonderful healing energy and beautiful expression of blended peoples voices and hearts.” 

“Something that has had a significant impact on me is being in a space with BIPOC folks in leadership positions and also being in a space where I am not the only or one of few BIPOC people. This has not happened many times in my life. Hearing what the BIPOC folks in this space have experienced makes me feel like what I have experienced as a WOC is real, valid, and relevant.”

To register, please go to our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/169768579391

Questions? Please contact us at csc@creativestrategiesforchange.com