Category: training
The Regional Center hosts a brown bag lunch this Friday, December 17th as part of our center's training calendar.
Let's take a break from the terms cultural competency, cultural awareness and cultural humility and have an honest conversation about what happens each day in our work and what we can do to make every person feel human, cared for, welcomed and respected. We will use lay language to think together about ways to make our agencies, programs and offices safe, welcoming and healthy. Join us for this brown bag conversation where we'll explore challenges and identify opportunities together.
You will leave this training with tips and tricks to make your own meetings and programs more inclusive, as well as strategies you can incorporate in your own work or your own organization to move your own cultural humility efforts forward.
Please bring your own lunch, the Regional Center will provide tea and snacks.
**Register by emailing rchctrainings@healthier-communities.org your name, organization and contact details or by calling 617.441.0700 and asking to register for the Cultural Competency training.**
Tell the Regional Center What Trainings You'd Like to Attend this Year
The Regional Center for Healthy Communities (Metrowest) would like your input on what trainings we should offer in the coming year. Each year we conduct this training needs assessment, review the results as a staff, consult with our advisory board, and release a training calendar full of wonderful (usually free) trainings for the rest of the year. Let us know what what training topics you'd like to see by clicking on the following link and completing our survey.
Click here to complete the survey.
We will collect responses until August 8.
Thank you!
The Regional Center is hosting a brown bag lunch to trade tips and tricks on Time Management on June 7 from 12-1 PM at the Morse Institute Library in Natick. We all have hectic lives that make it hard to manage our multiple priorities, but make the time to attend this training and you will be rewarded with increased motivation and resolve to tackle those challenges and some new tools to help you do it. To register for the training, email rchctrainings@healthier-communities.org or call 617-441-0700 and ask to register for the Time Management training. The training is FREE.
Regional Center for Healthy Communities (MetroWest)
Invites you to a training on
Initiating Community Change
With the Beehive Collective
Friday, April 29, 2011
1:00pm - 4:00pm
To register, email: rchctrainings@healthier-communities.org or call 617.441.0700
Initiating community change can often seem intimidating and overwhelming to try and tackle as an individual or organization. The Regional center is very excited to host a training by The Beehive Collective featuring Joshua Kahn Russell. They will provide you with practical skills, tools and examples of how to mobilize change in your community. The Collective is a completely volunteer-run grassroots organization based in Maine focused on social justice issues, community mobilization and change. They provide healthy visual representation of the complex issues our society is facing (if you’re not sure exactly what that looks like please check out their amazing website below!). They will share with us their graphic making methods, organizing strategy and hands-on skills, combined with stories and inspiration from across different social movements they work with.
We also have the privilege of welcoming Joshua Kahn Russell as a co-presenter. Russell is an organizer working to bridge movements for ecological balance and racial justice. He is a strategy and non-violent direct action trainer and has experience coordinating and building capacity for coalitions across the nation with a focus on youth involvement. Get ready for a high-energy, interactive, graphic-based picture-experience!
Topics may include:
- Historical case studies to understand social movements
- Using best practices to build, maintain and grow a coalition
- Building alignment within your group and ensuring sustainable change
- The Beehive Collectives’ examples of successful ways to use creative resources to mobilize community change
- And you can share your successes and challenges in promoting community change!
Snacks and beverages will be provided.
Location: The Watertown Free Public Library 123 Main Street Watertown, MA.
For directions by car CLICK HERE. If you are taking public transportation, all available bus routes can be found HERE.
Trainers: The Beehive Collective featuring Joshua Kahn Russell from AID & ABET. You can find more information on The Beehive Collective @ http://www.beehivecollective.org/ And Joshua Kahn Russell @ http://aidandabet.org/roster/russell-joshua-kahn
Cost: The workshop is free. However there is a $35 fee for no-shows. So please let us know in advance if you will be unable to attend!
To register: Email rchctrainings@healthier-communities.org your name, organization and contact details or by calling 617.441.0700 and asking to register for the Initiating Community Change Workshop.
If you have any questions about the content of the training or would like assistance determining if this work shop is for you, please call Elizabeth Theriault at the Regional Center - 617.441.0700.
Date:
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 9:00am - 12:30pm
Location:
Due to increasing demand by training participants that our trainings be helf off-site, the Meeting Facilitation training will be held at the Woburn Senior Center:
Woburn Senior Center - Board Room
144 School St, Woburn, MA 01801
There is plenty of free on-site parking at this location. It is also accessible by the MBTA Lowell Commuter Rail Line. Visit the MBTA Website for schedule information.
The City of Woburn is committed to full participation of persons with disabilities in our programs, services and activities. All activities are handicap accessible. Call 781-897-5960 for further details.
Workshop Description:
The purpose of this workshop is to learn tools and approaches for effectively facilitating meetings and helping groups reach agreement on decisions that guide them toward their goals.
By the end of this workshop you will…
- Be familiar with the stages of a discussion and tools for facilitating each stage
- Be familiar with the components of an effective agenda and be able to design and guide a meeting process
- Have knowledge of strategies for dealing with difficult behaviors at meetings
- Have a list of resources available to assist you in facilitating meetings, available in the RCHC Resource Library
- You will also have the opportunity to practice the tools provided during the workshop
Breakfast will be provided.
Trainers:
Charlene Julien and Anna Stout from the Regional Center.
Cost:
The workshop is free. However, if you register and later find out that you are not able to attend, there is a $35 cancellation fee that we will gladly waive as long as you notify us in advance that you will be unable to attend.
To register:
Register by e-mailing rchctrainings@healthier-communities.org your name, organization and contact details or by calling 617.441.0700 and asking to register for the Meeting Facilitation Workshop.
If you have any questions about the content of the training or would like assistance determining if this work shop is for you, please call Anna Stout at the Regional Center - 617.441.0700.
Yesterday, we hosted a workshop called "Creative Ways to Present Data". The workshop began with a presentation by Dr. K. 'Vish' Viswanath from the Harvard School of Public Health about effective communication of risk and science. In the second part of the workshop, we focused on the process of how to choose the best method of presenting data. I had the pleasure of facilitating the second part of the workshop with Rahul Bhargava, a consultant who has lots of experience developing creative data visualizations. We were very lucky to have both Dr. Vish and Rahul present!
If you missed the workshop but are interested in seeing the materials, we've made them available in our training archive. Click here to download the materials (you'll have to scroll to the bottom of the page).
Date:
Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
Regional Center for Healthy Communities (Metrowest), 552 Mass Ave, Suite 203, Cambridge (in Central Square). For directions, and parking and MBTA information, refer to our website http://www.healthier-communities.org/info/directions.htm. The Center is easily accessible by public transportation.
Workshop Description:
This training is open to young people and adults. If you have youth working with your coalition, please consider bringing them along.
Whether the goal is excellent service, facilitating change, or creating a cooperative workplace, the ability to manage ourselves
is a key ingredient in managing our environment. In this interactive workshop, we will begin with self-awareness and learn
to replace reactivity with response. We will also practice centered communication by staying relaxed and focused on what we really
want.
Using principles and techniques from Aikido, the Japanese art of
reconciliation, participants will discover how to choose a centered
response under pressure, communicate clearly, and strengthen
relationships.
Learning Objectives:
• Increased options in habitually stressful situations
• New capacity to handle what comes with objectivity and curiosity
• Enhanced self-awareness and emotion management
• Skills to communicate clearly and effectively
Trainers:
Judy Ringer is the author of Unlikely Teachers: Finding the Hidden Gifts in Daily Conflict. She provides conflict and communication training throughout North America with unique workshops based on mind/body principles from the martial art aikido, in which she holds a black belt. Employing best practice communication models, Judy brings to life key concepts such as self-management under pressure and appreciation of other viewpoints. Her programs are interactive, experiential and energetic. She has written articles on the relevance and application of the aikido metaphor for Aikido Today Magazine and The Systems Thinker and is the author of the award-winning e-newsletter, Ki Moments. Learn more at www.JudyRinger.com.
Cost:
This workshop is free. If you register and later find out you cannot make it, we will gladly waive the $35.00 cancellation fee as long as you notify us via email that you will not be able to attend. See below for registration details.
To register:
Participants must register by October 9th, 2009. You can register by calling Bill Holden at (617) 441 – 0700 or e-mail your name and contact details to bholden@healthier-communities.org. In your e-mail, note that you wish to register for the training titled: Making More Powerful Choices - A Workshop on Conflict and Communication.
Date:
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
Regional Center for Healthy Communities (Metrowest), 552 Mass Ave, Suite 203, Cambridge (in Central Square). For directions, and parking and MBTA information, refer to our website http://www.healthier-communities.org/info/directions.htm. The Center is easily accessible by public transportation.
Workshop Description:
Preventing substance abuse has come a long way over the last few decades – it’s transitioned from focusing solely on individuals and behavior change to changing the environment to achieve community-level change. Today we know more than ever about what is effective in preventing substance abuse for population-level change. In this workshop, participants will receive an overview of prevention planning (including data sources, assessing community readiness for prevention, and people to involve in the process), examples of evidence-based prevention strategies (and strategies to avoid), and examples of ways to evaluate prevention efforts.
Learning Objectives - Participants will have an understanding of:
Risk and protective factors for substance use
Sources of information and data for prevention planning
The role prevention from the individual to the community level
The importance of environmental prevention
Templates to use in evaluating your work
Trainers:
Cory Mashburn, Director, Somerville Cares About Prevention.
Sarah Stewart, Community Health Specialist, Regional Center for Healthy Communities (Metrowest).
Cost:
This workshop is free, however any cancellations after September 21, 2009 will be charged $35.00. Participants must register by September 18, 2009 - see registration details below.
To register:
Participants must register by September 18th, 2009. You can register by calling Bill Holden at (617) 441 – 0700 or e-mail your name and contact details to bholden@healthier-communities.org In your e-mail, note that you wish to register for the Introduction to Substance Abuse Prevention training.
Below is the list of trainings that we will be offering during the upcoming year. We will be updating our training calendar as specific details become available. To be kept informed on these and other trainings throughout the region, you can sign up for our electronic newsletter by clicking here.
Planning for Policy Change | September 23, 2011
Creative Ways to Present Data | October 2011
Evaluation 101 & 102 | November 17, 2011
Prevention Ethics | January, 2012
Tools for Creating Change | March, 2012
Sustainability Planning | May, 2012
Models for Sharing Leadership | June, 2012
If you are interested in future workshops on specific topics, please email your suggestions. For more information please contact the Regional Center at - rchctrainings@healthier-communities.org
