What if the people you're in the profession to help were eager to partner with you from the first time you met them? No misgivings about motivation. No unspoken agendas. No proving yourself over and over and over again. Just ready to start exploring new options for their lives. Imagine how far you could go together?
Methods like Motivational Interviewing, Nonviolent Communication, Restorative Justice, and Trauma Informed Care are techniques for doing. Community Building is a way of being that can make these and other good methods great. It begins with a highly experiential group process that is designed to create an atmosphere of unusual safety for participants to work "below the surface" and experience deep emotional connections with each other.
In a Community Building Workshop, participants gain the ability to listen more intently, to express emotions more openly, and to be more fully present to self and others in their daily affairs. The shared experience improves group properties which, research has shown, leads to more effectual learning and working environments with higher levels of individual participation and better outcomes.
Community Building Workshops are being offered to CFH clients with executives, managers, program staff, and volunteers of CFH and partner organizations as part of an initiative to introduce Community Building to the Seattle area social service community.
If you would like to learn more, please register to attend this Community Building Workshop -- or contact:
Doug Wheeler, DPhil, LMHC
Director of Mental Health
CFH
[email protected]
(425) 998-7710
Community Building Workshops have been used to develop deeply collaborative cultures that positively impact social service programs. Congregations For the Homeless is holding this workshop to learn more about the model and how it might be applied to our mission of stable living from homelessness.
