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.
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.
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!
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!
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
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.”
Youth ages 13-18 are invited to join an in-person month long institute focused on arts & social justice. We will meet from 4:00pm-6:00pm MST on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from October 18th-November 19th. Here, youth get to connect, explore where we fit into current events and create music based upon our experiences and hopes for the future.
Youth who complete the institute will be paid a stipend and invited to perform or present at Community Cypher, our monthly open mic. Join us for this amazing opportunity to engage community!
Find more information about registration process here:
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.
“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.”
Youth ages 13-18 are invited to join a two week long institute focused on arts & social justice. We will meet online from 4:00pm-6:00pm MST Monday-Friday from September 7th-September 20th. Here, youth get to connect, explore where we fit into current events and create music based upon our experiences and hopes for the future.
Youth who complete the institute will be paid a stipend and invited to perform or present at Community Cypher, our monthly open mic. Join us for this amazing opportunity to engage community!
For more information contact our Program Team at csc@creativestrategiesforchange.com!
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.
“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.”
The ACT CLC is the Community Leadership Cohort youth track that provides leadership training and experience for young people ages 16-24. ACT (Arts for Transformation and Change) Youth Institute is an arts driven program empowering youth to creatively respond to the social justice and mental health crisis being faced in the US. ACT engages youth through activities and exercises focused on connecting youth to an increased understanding of themselves and their world. Within the program, participants will explore trauma informed social emotional learning (personal care) and draw connections to how individuals activate regarding themselves and their world (community care).
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