Being a community-engaged leader takes specific skills and understanding. Through this workshop series — required for the Group Certificate in Community-Engaged Leadership — you’ll have the opportunity to build both while learning about mentorship, critical reflection and group dynamics and exploring power dynamics in a community engagement context.
Workshops are facilitated by Einhorn Center staff.
Thurs., Feb. 8 | 5-6:30 p.m.
209 Kennedy Hall
Relationships are at the core of serving communities. How is building a community partnership similar to building a healthy relationship? By combining our diverse perspectives and skills, Cornell-based faculty, staff, students, with community members can address public issues and help build a more sustainable, just and collaborative future. By the end of this brief workshop, you will be able to:
- Identify aspects of exemplar, ethical community partnership building
- Identify appropriate partners for your project
- See risk as an important dimension to serving the public good
- Initiate and build sustainable partnerships
- Nurture cultures of trust and reciprocity in partnership
Fri., Feb. 9 | noon-1:30 p.m.
209 Kennedy Hall
Consider community-engaged learning (CEL) as “community service 3.0.” While both take place in and with communities, CEL projects and programs include preparation, learning from a community partner and critically reflecting on the service experience. These additional elements help deepen the experience and often lead to more positive impact for all involved. Student leaders at Cornell play a critical role in leading their peers in high-quality CEL. Through this workshop, you will:
- Articulate how CEL differs from community service and volunteerism, and leads to more impactful outcomes
- Become familiar with models of community-engaged learning at Cornell
- Identify issues of public concern and who is addressing these
- Understand importance of preparing to serve and relationships in partnership building
- Identify at least two qualities of how community-engaged leaders cultivate leadership among their peers
Fri., Feb. 9 | noon-1:30 p.m.
209 Kennedy Hall
Consider community-engaged learning (CEL) as “community service 3.0.” While both take place in and with communities, CEL projects and programs include preparation, learning from a community partner and critically reflecting on the service experience. These additional elements help deepen the experience and often lead to more positive impact for all involved. Student leaders at Cornell play a critical role in leading their peers in high-quality CEL. Through this workshop, you will:
- Articulate how CEL differs from community service and volunteerism, and leads to more impactful outcomes
- Become familiar with models of community-engaged learning at Cornell
- Identify issues of public concern and who is addressing these
- Understand importance of preparing to serve and relationships in partnership building
- Identify at least two qualities of how community-engaged leaders cultivate leadership among their peers
Tues., Feb. 13 | 5-6:30 p.m.
209 Kennedy Hall
Critical reflection is the key to lifelong learning, and lifelong learning is one quality of leaders who address issues of public concern. How do we create spaces for our peers to critically examine their experiences? This facilitative leadership approach is one way that you can build the capacity of your peers and teams, to better serve communities. Through this workshop, you will:
- Know how critical reflection differs from simple reflection
- Understand essential facilitation techniques
- Identify critical reflection activities you can use with your groups post-service
- Prepare for practicing these tools
Tues., Feb. 13 | 5-6:30 p.m.
209 Kennedy Hall
Critical reflection is the key to lifelong learning, and lifelong learning is one quality of leaders who address issues of public concern. How do we create spaces for our peers to critically examine their experiences? This facilitative leadership approach is one way that you can build the capacity of your peers and teams, to better serve communities. Through this workshop, you will:
- Know how critical reflection differs from simple reflection
- Understand essential facilitation techniques
- Identify critical reflection activities you can use with your groups post-service
- Prepare for practicing these tools
Fri., Feb. 16 | noon-1:30 p.m.
209 Kennedy Hall
“Do no harm.” Beyond this mantra, how can you prepare for serving off-campus communities? Attend this interactive workshop to learn to:
- Understand how to work with what we do not know
- Explore your motivation to serve
- Articulate the importance of engaging communities in an ethical manner
- Identify your cultural patterns, and how these shape your interactions with the world and community
- Understand how critical reflection can support meaning making
Fri., Feb. 16 | noon-1:30 p.m.
209 Kennedy Hall
“Do no harm.” Beyond this mantra, how can you prepare for serving off-campus communities? Attend this interactive workshop to learn to:
- Understand how to work with what we do not know
- Explore your motivation to serve
- Articulate the importance of engaging communities in an ethical manner
- Identify your cultural patterns, and how these shape your interactions with the world and community
- Understand how critical reflection can support meaning making
Tues., Mar. 5 | 5-6:30 p.m.
209 Kennedy Hall
Consider community-engaged learning (CEL) as “community service 3.0.” While both take place in and with communities, CEL projects and programs include preparation, learning from a community partner and critically reflecting on the service experience. These additional elements help deepen the experience and often lead to more positive impact for all involved. Student leaders at Cornell play a critical role in leading their peers in high-quality CEL. Through this workshop, you will:
- Articulate how CEL differs from community service and volunteerism, and leads to more impactful outcomes
- Become familiar with models of community-engaged learning at Cornell
- Identify issues of public concern and who is addressing these
- Understand importance of preparing to serve and relationships in partnership building
- Identify at least two qualities of how community-engaged leaders cultivate leadership among their peers
Fri., Mar. 8 | noon-1:30 p.m.
209 Kennedy Hall
Mentors support their mentees in critically reflecting on their experiences. Through this session, participants will reflect on their experiences as mentees; clarify what useful mentors are, know and can do; and explore the in-between-ness of both leadership and community engagement. By the end of the workshop, you’ll be able to:
- Identify foundational aspects of mentorship
- Understand the importance of receiving feedback and sharing one’s story
- Connect mentoring to cultivating leadership, especially supporting mentees in their critical reflection
Fri., Mar. 8 | noon-1:30 p.m.
209 Kennedy Hall
Mentors support their mentees in critically reflecting on their experiences. Through this session, participants will reflect on their experiences as mentees; clarify what useful mentors are, know and can do; and explore the in-between-ness of both leadership and community engagement. By the end of the workshop, you’ll be able to:
- Identify foundational aspects of mentorship
- Understand the importance of receiving feedback and sharing one’s story
- Connect mentoring to cultivating leadership, especially supporting mentees in their critical reflection
Wed., Mar. 13 | 5-6:30 p.m.
Engaged Cornell Hub, 3rd floor Kennedy Hall
“Do no harm.” Beyond this mantra, how can you prepare for serving off-campus communities? Attend this interactive workshop to learn to:
- Understand how to work with what we do not know
- Explore your motivation to serve
- Articulate the importance of engaging communities in an ethical manner
- Identify your cultural patterns, and how these shape your interactions with the world and community
- Understand how critical reflection can support meaning making