Community Craft Curriculum

At a Glance

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Teaching & Training


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Provides frameworks and tools for community leaders and citizen problem-solvers to craft more effective and more enduring responses to the needs and opportunities of the places they call home.

 

Overview

If you want to understand how our places work and how to address today's complex problems—if you want to make shalom actionable in a given place—this is the curriculum for you.

This curriculum is broken down into 3 modules:

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Know Your Community

Building Contextual Understanding and Intelligence. Includes 1) Community Asset Mapping  and 2) Data & Measurement.

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Discern Your Role 

Developing Self Awareness and Collaborative Discernment. Includes 1) Self Assessment 2) Empathy Mapping, and 3)Collaboration Planning

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Craft Your Response 

Implementing Solutions, Learning from Impacts. Includes 1) Rapid Prototyping, 2) Sustainability Planning , and 3) Pitching.

 

The Human Ecology Framework

Our curriculum employs the Human Ecology Framework, a unique ecological approach that helps communities: 


1. Evaluate

the strengths and challenges of their unique context and place.


3. Identify

new solutions and creative partners to address city challenges, and much more.


2. Understand

how different aspects of social life influence each other in expected and unexpected ways.


4. Build

unusual coalitions that strengthen the social fabric and foster the common good.