SILC-NET Presents: Conducting Successful Community Forums: Engaging Stakeholders, Mobilizing Communities A National Teleconference & Webcast
Table of Contents
- SILC-NET Presents: Conducting Successful Community Forums
- Today's discussion led by…
- Source
- Session Objectives Participants will be able to:
- Section 1
- What is a Forum?
- Complexity of Social Change
- Before You Begin…
- Why Do You Want to Hold a Forum?
- Types of Forums
- Community Education Forums
- Community Engagement Forums
- Community Action Forums
- Forum Considerations
- Questions & Answers
- Section 2
- Cartoon
- Steps in Pulling off a Forum
- Convene a Planning Group
- Create a Concept Paper
- Raise Resources
- Pay Attention to Leadership
- Design the Forum
- Design Elements
- Questions & Answers
- Section 3
- Event Preparation
- Red Flags
- Two Key Roles in Managing the Event
- Coordinator
- Facilitator
- Questions & Answers
- Section 4
- Planting Seeds: Prep Work for Follow-up Action
- Fertilizing: Building Commitment During the Forum
- Harvesting: Getting Results
- Questions & Answers
- Five Principles to Remember
- Wrap Up and Evaluation
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Design the Forum
- Design is how the forum is structured, including techniques, tools, facilitated activities that will influence audience's knowledge, attitudes, and skills.
- Design is…
- More than an agenda
- Creates total experience: physical, social, intellectual, emotional, spiritual
- Conveys a meta-message
- (e.g. we are in this together; we shall overcome; we can make a difference; we have hope)
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