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Facilitation for Community Transformation Launch!

October 30, 2024

Date: October 30, 2024

Time: 2 - 4 PM

Location: 312 Main St

Event Details:

Celebrate with us as we launch our new publication Facilitation for Community Transformation: A Toolkit for Community-engaged Researchers! The authors of the publication will highlight the transformative role facilitation can play in post-secondary and community settings while exploring some key components outlined in the handbook including practical advice, strategies, and tools used in the field of community facilitation. We will demonstrate some activities while making space for connecting with others interested in facilitation.  

Facilitation for Community Transformation: A Toolkit for Community-engaged Researchers is a free and accessible resource designed for researchers, students, and community leaders focused on building meaningful community connections through interviews, workshops, advocacy, and more. Whether you're just beginning your journey in facilitation or you're an experienced practitioner, this guide offers strategies for facilitation across various settings, making it a valuable tool for anyone committed to community-driven social transformation. Each section is designed to build your skills with key concepts, reflections, tools and mindsets necessary for an effective facilitation practice. The resource is both a guide and a flexible reference, perfect for revisiting specific sections as new facilitation situations arise.

About the Authors

Tara Mahoney

Tara Mahoney is the Research and Engagement Manager with SFU’s Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERi). With over 15 years of experience in community organizing and a PhD in Communication from Simon Fraser University, Tara has been at the forefront of innovative projects that bridge the gap between academic research and community-driven solutions. She teaches climate communications in the Climate Action certificate program at SFU and has published widely on topics related to community-engaged research and public engagement with climate issues. Prior to her role with SFU CERi, Tara was the co-founder and creative director of public engagement agency Gen Why Media, instructor with Civic Innovation Change Lab at RADIUS SFU and the Research Fellow in Climate Change Communications at the David Suzuki Foundation. To learn more about her engagement work and publications visit creativepublics.ca

Kari Grain

Kari Grain is a practitioner-scholar at the intersection of higher education, social justice, and community engagement. She earned her PhD in Education at UBC as a Vanier scholar, where her research focused on local community impacts of international service-learning in Uganda. For the past five years, she has worked as an educational consultant, focusing on experiential education, community-engaged research, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Her research has been published in the Journal of Experiential Education, the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, and the Canadian Journal of Studies in Adult Education. She is currently a sessional instructor in UBC’s Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Education and has been collaborating in varying capacities with SFU scholars since 2017's Community2University Expo.

Khari Wendell McClelland

Khari Wendell McClelland is an award-winning musician and creative facilitator who uses the arts and experiential activities for transformational learning. 

Based in Vancouver, Canada, Khari has worked with communities across Africa, Australia, Europe, North America and the Caribbean.

In a world with increasingly complex societal challenges, the need for values-based creative solutions is paramount. ​

Khari helps youth and adults explore core values and creativity as a means to self-actualization, community building and problem solving.

His approach is warm, insightful and engaging.

For Khari's music, visit khariwendellmcclelland.com

Khari's website: https://www.kwmfacilitation.com/