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Redwood City Breaks New Ground with Unique
"Community Builders" Program
Jump to Program Session Overview
Jump to registration form - the registration deadline is November 3rd
Redwood City's two previous Community Builders programs were a great success, bringing the tools and concepts of real civic engagement and positive community action to a total of over 200 participants in Redwood City.
You're invited to join the next session of this innovative and absolutely unique program and become a partner in building a great community together.
Community Builders is designed to give you and other interested community members the tools, skills, and inspiration to envision the community you’d like Redwood City to be, and to work effectively with your friends and neighbors, your colleagues, your fellow community-members, and the City to achieve that vision.
You’ll be part of something brand new and innovative that holds the promise of great benefit to the community of Redwood City. Community Builders takes community building to a truly remarkable level by offering world-class presenters who will share with you their proven tools and experience in building communities. You'll share in their vision and ideas, models, and examples that will help us to build a great community together, starting on our own blocks and in our own neighborhoods.
Fill out a registration form for Community Builders, get it back to us as soon as possible, and put the dates in your calendar now so that you can be sure to attend all sessions. The registration deadline is November 3 , 2006; registration is limited to 100 people and we expect it to fill up quickly. A $25 contribution will be requested, but not mandatory, at the first session to help offset the cost of food and materials.
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Redwood City Community Builders
Program Session Overview
2006 / 2007
Note: each session is from 6 to 9 pm and includes dinner.
Thursday, November 9, 2006 ~ Margaret Wheatley – Internationally acclaimed speaker and writer focusing on how to maintain our integrity and effectiveness in these chaotic times ~ www.margaretwheatley.com. Listening to one another is key to community building – not negotiation, problem-solving, debate, or public meetings – just truthful conversation. She’ll provide perspective and bring together material from our previous sessions, while offering tools to develop new and powerful insights and practices for building our community.
Thursday, November 16, 2006 ~ Peter Block – Consultant, speaker, best selling author on bringing service and accountability to organizations and communities ~ www.peterblock.com. We'll initially participate in activities to get to know one another and understand the objectives of the program. Then, to strengthen our commitment to transforming our community, Peter will help us to ask the right questions, and find answers within ourselves and each other which will call us to action, giving us tools for our community’s enhancement.
Thursday, January 11, 2007 ~ Dr. John L. McKnight – Dr. McKnight is a dynamic author, speaker, and professor of Education and Social Policy ~ www.northwestern.edu/ipr/abcd/abcdbackground.html. He’ll share lessons from hundreds of successful community-building initiatives across the US, and offer ideas for what we can do to start our own journey down the path of “asset-based development,” by turning first of all to our neighbors and to local citizens associations and institutions that lie at the heart of our communities.
February, 2007 ~ A special guest speaker on a date in February, to be announced…
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Click here to link to an overview of some of the research into the concept of civic engagement and "social capital."
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