Course Details

This advanced, workshop-based course will offer participants the tools needed to incorporate creative and culturally relevant elements into a holistic and responsive community organizing and development practice. Participants will practice developing key insights regarding their communities, identifying oppressive conditions that have caused harm in their communities, imagine new ideas for nourishing programs and physical changes, and implement programs, collective decision-making, and accountable governance. This course builds on content learned in NR190 and NR290; participants may also decide to join if they are well-versed in integrating creative strategies into equitable and creative community development without prior NeighborWorks coursework. This work honors and is possible because of a long history of culturally responsive and creative community organizing and development work, including indigenous placekeeping, cultural equity movements, Black-led movements for civil rights, trauma-informed community building, and more.