NEW: Two
day workshop
on coalition building and collaborative solutions
The perfect offering for statewide and national organizations
In addition to the long standing
half day and day long workshops, Tom Wolff & Associates now offers a
new two day workshop on coalition building and collaborative solutions. A
perfect offering for your statewide or national organization. Contact us
today: tom@tomwolff.com.
The goals of the workshop are to increase the skills and understanding
by the participants of the collaborative process with an emphasis on concrete
skills and tools. There is a lively mix of didactic material, and exercises,
and a full scale coalition simulation. The workshop has been successfully
adapted and delivered to experienced coalition leaders to help expand and
strengthen their skills. It has also been offered for newcomers, and mixed
skill audiences. Topics covered include: Principles of
Collaborative Solutions, Strategic Planning, Creating a Common Coalition
Vision, Engaging the Community, Collaborative Leadership, Sustainability,
and Evaluation. Participants leave with new energy for the work and new skills
and tools.
Sample agenda as developed for an audience in Lisbon, Portugal;
Two day Training
Institute on Community Coalitions:
Building Healthy Communities through Collaborative Solutions
Faculty: Tom Wolff Ph.D. www.tomwolff.com , tom@tomwolff.com
Two-day Training
Institute on Community Coalitions:
Building Healthy Communities through Collaborative Solutions
Faculty: Tom Wolff, Ph.D. www.tomwolff.com , tom@tomwolff.com
Day One
Morning
Welcome
Goals, Agenda, Ice breaker
Coalition building and collaborative solutions
What is coalition-building?
Why are we doing coalition-building?
Limitations of our helping systems
Stand and Declare—What do we believe about collaboration? Exercise
Experiences in collaborations—Positive and negative: Exercise
Principles of collaboration solutions: Overview
- Encourage true collaboration as the form of exchange.
Continuum of Collaboration—Which
do you use? Exercise
- Engage a broad spectrum of the community, especially
those most directly affected.
- Practice democracy, and promote active citizenship
and empowerment.
- Employ a healthy communities approach that emphasizes the
individual in her/his setting, and builds on community strengths and assets.
- Take
action by addressing issues of social change and power based on a common
vision.
- Align the goals with the process.
What do we know from the research about what works? Roussus and
Fawcett
Factors
affecting a collaboration’s capacity to create change: Worksheet
Healthy Communities as a model
Coalition-Building Problem-Solving Clinic
Afternoon
Creating vision and strategic planning
Visioning exercise
Coalition start up—sharing
Coalition stages of development
Barriers
Diversity
Structure
Engaging the community in your collaboration: Exercises
Who
to involve? Who do you have involved now?
Who do you need to involve to reach your goals?
Ladder of Participation
How will you recruit them?
Stakeholder analysis
What is their self-interest?
Develop a plan
How will you retain them?
Coalition-Building Problem-Solving Clinic: Case studies
Day Two
Morning
Coalition simulation
One-hour simulation with 30 minutes to process
Sustainability
Stand and Declare—What do we believe about sustainability? Exercise
Myths
Creating a legacy statement
Sustainability Outcomes
Four approaches
Institutionalization
Policy
change
Community
norms
Resources
Next steps
Action planning
Evaluate the day plus/delta
Coalition-Building Problem-Solving Clinic: Case studies
Afternoon
Collaborative leadership
Stand and Declare—What do we believe about leadership?
Exercise
Skills
Evaluation: Assessing
our progress & celebrating our success
Why
does documentation and evaluation matter in collaborative solutions?
Experiences with coalition evaluation: As a member? As an evaluator?
What worked? What were the challenges?
Assess your progress: Assessment and evaluation of process and outcomes
A
framework for evaluation of coalitions
Coalition
Member Assessment: Tool
Tools
and Resources
Designing and running a coalition retreat
Putting it all together—integrating the two
days—action planning for next steps |