Let’s learn about community engagement… together
Off-the-shelf and tailor-made training in contemporary community engagement practice
Becky loves sharing her knowledge and expertise with others and offers a range of training and workshop opportunities, both online and in person.
All of Becky’s training is held under the banner of Academy Communitas, which Becky founded in 2021 to fill a gap in the market for diverse, affordable, accessible and contemporary training opportunities in the community engagement sector.
Our training and workshops include -
Our popular 6-week Community Engagement BOOTCAMP training
Facilitating Online Conversations with Confidence (PDF, 1MB) workshop
2-hour Whistlestop Community Engagement workshop for whole-of-organisation awareness
Build Your Tribe: Tips & Tricks to Grow your Community Group
Creative Community Engagement: Put some Pizazz in your Practice
20 Tips & Tricks for Better Stakeholder Engagement
Untangling the web of online community engagement
The ABC of Community Engagement
Facilitating Online Conversations workshop
A live online group workshop to learn to facilitate online conversations with confidence.
Needing to facilitate group conversations via video conferencing, but you're worried about -
How you'll 'read the room' given that everyone is behind a screen?
How you'll create and maintain positive group energy?
How you'll manage to get enough input to be able to solve problems or make decisions?
What you'll do if technology fails?
You aren't alone!
Workshop outline
Following the 7 steps to joining the Mile High Facilitating Online Conversations Club, your inflight entertainment will include –
Pre-flight checks - facilitator energy, pre-facilitation checklist
Boarding - welcoming participants, facilitator/group pace, the role of the facilitator
Equipment & Safety Briefing - digital housekeeping, equipment available
Take Off - The importance of introductions
Flying High - What makes good conversation and how can this can occur online, Case Study 1, Case Study 2 - including tools and techniques for prompting conversation, plus what happens when you hit turbulence
Preparing the Cabin for Landing - Reaching a consensus
Arrivals Hall - Closing the loop, next steps
What People Are Saying
“The time flew by and was really fun and productive. I came away with several tips and tricks for making online engagement a more natural part of my practice.”
— Andrea Cook, Red Road Consulting
"It has given me a lot of insight to assist in engaging and hope that these useful tools will make the community a better place to be."
Community Engagement BOOTCAMP participant, June 2022
“Great session today. Really enjoying your style and the content is excellent. Learning lots!”
— BOOTCAMP participant, November 2021
“This training reflected the current and very real needs of engagement practitioners who need to facilitate online. It was practical, fun and smart. I highly recommend!”
— Amy Hubbard, Practice Lead, Capire Consulting Group
Contact Becky to discuss your specific training needs.
Academy
noun
a place of study or training in a special field.
Communitas
Latin noun
commonly referring either to an unstructured community in which people are equal, or to the very spirit of community.