One City Peterborough Introduces 'Community University' Offering Pay What You Can Workshops For Community Advocates

One City Peterborough has launched their Community University, which will offer pay what you can workshops to any individual wanting to learn more about advocacy and community action.

Photo by Luke Best.

The fall semester will feature five different workshops.

Making Space to Hold Space: Self-regulation in the Presence of Trauma

This three part workshop will focus on learning how trauma and stress affects brains and bodies, and how regulation can help to prevent trauma, heal trauma, and work towards living a life with integrity.

This workshop focuses primarily on doing this work within ones self, and how being in a state of regulation can assist when supporting others who are experiencing distressing events. This training has been adapted from Eric Gentry’s Forward Facing Trauma Therapy Course to fit our needs as nontherapists.

This workshop is aimed at volunteers, helping professionals, and anyone interested in exploring what it can mean to live with intention and alignment to your principles.

Meaningful Flag Making: Reclaiming flags towards Community Transformation

Led by Jeff Macklin of Jackson Creek Press, participants will learn about the historical use of textiles and flags in activism, explore messaging, colour, and composition, and utilize lino printing, stamps, sewing, and painting to work on their own piece.

Nonviolent Communication Basics

This workshop builds upon the course Making Space to Hold Space, however it is not a requirement to have completed that course.

Nonviolent communication is an approach that looks to move past the defensiveness that so often divides us to a place of connection where we can share our feelings and needs and be open with each other on how we would like those needs to be met. The purpose of this workshop is to learn a way of communication that can assist in our ability to listen and share with one another. It's a form of communication that seeks to move from domination to connection. This is useful in de-escalation, support relationships and personal relationships.

This workshop is aimed at volunteers, helping professionals, and anyone looking for a different way to communicate.

Listening Rather Than Force: Techniques for De Escalating Potentially Violent Situations

This course offers techniques that can be used to de-escalate situations that could become violent, in a way that instead builds connection.

Transforming My Community: Using Kingian Nonviolence as a Framework for Social Change

This workshop studies the principles and practices of Kingian Nonviolence, and imagines how they might be used to make change in our own communities.

This workshop is aimed at advocates, activists, volunteers, helping professionals, and anyone looking to make change in their community.

More information regarding location, dates and time, or to register, visit https://www.onecityptbo.ca/communityuniversity

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