Program Overview (April - November 2025):
- Attend Orientation over Zoom • March 18 • (to understand what the program entails and get to know the other members of the cohort)
- Attend in-person gathering of the cohort in Atlanta, GA• April 16th -18th • (to build relationships and deepen skills in facilitation of community-driven planning methods rooted in popular education).
- Design &/or facilitate a community-driven planning process in and with a frontline community to which you are accountable (at any scale, anytime between April - November 2025. It could also be the update of an existing community plan).
- Actively participate in monthly 2.5-hour whole group sessions (focused on facilitation skills, and peer consultancies in the nuts & bolts of community-driven planning).
- Give and receive a reflection (and light peer coaching) from a peer in the cohort (reflection and coaching prompts to be provided).
- Acquire an evaluation of the community-driven planning process and facilitation by staff or members of a frontline organization that participated in the planning process (template for evaluation to be provided).
- Write one blog about your experience with community-driven planning (with coaching and editing support as needed).
