Building Your Community Development Practice Framework
Overview
Your community development practice is shaped by your experience, values and the choices you make every day. A personal practice framework helps you bring these elements together and explain how you work, why you work that way and what you want to strengthen next.
This practical, reflective one-day workshop provides space to explore the knowledge already held in your stories and experience. Through supportive conversations and creative activities, you will begin building a framework that reflects your own approach.
Facilitated by Helen Betts and Heather Ellis, the day offers a thoughtful starting point for developing your practice with greater clarity, confidence and intention.
Who Should Attend?
This workshop welcomes emerging and experienced practitioners, including:
- Community development practitioners and community workers
- Community engagement officers
- Local government and place-based teams
- People working in health, education and social services
- Rural and regional development practitioners
What You Will Explore
Understanding a Personal Practice Framework
Explore what a personal practice framework is and how it can help you understand, organise and communicate your approach to community development.
Learning from Your Experience
Reflect on your stories and everyday practice to identify the knowledge and insights already shaping your work.
Recognising Your Values
Consider the values that guide your choices and how they show up in your work with communities.
Beginning Your Own Framework
Bring your reflections together in a first draft or visual map of your personal practice framework.
Communicating Your Approach
Develop language to explain how you work and why you work that way to colleagues and communities.
Continuing Your Development
Leave with reflective questions to help you keep growing your framework and identify what you want to strengthen next.
