Tuesday, January 14, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM Wednesday, January 15, 830 AM – 4:30 PM Thursday, January 16, 830 AM – 4:30 PM Friday, January 24, Noon – 1:30 PM (Time Exchange/Mutual Aid) Location: Honors House, Room 196
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Community often comes in crisis. Strangers in a waiting room share each other’s hopes and fears and joys and griefs as their loved ones lie across the hall in critical care. Earthquake causes buildings to crumble and bystanders to come to each others aid. Bombs explode and the human spirit draws together. The problem with Community is that when the crisis is over, so too is Community as people return to their ordinary lives.
In Community Building Workshops we learn how to create Community without a crisis. This is not achieved through an academic inquiry into its theory, model, or process of Community Building — but rather through the direct experience of Community itself.
Since learning about Community requires building Community, the single goal of any Community Building Workshop is simply for participants to experience Community. Once Community has become immediate in that way, it is possible to learn how to transfer its principles and practices to the day-to-day encounters in one’s life.
The resources below will support you in your Workshop experience as you build Community with your peers. You’ll find specific information on Community Building, along with “handouts” and additional materials that will guide you throughout the three-day emersion.
Note: While this site isn’t scheduled for deletion, we recommend saving any materials you’d like to keep (such as the post-workshop booklet, roster, or certificate), in case it becomes unavailable in the future.
Facilitators have been trained to lead emergent group processes using the model and techniques developed by M. Scott Peck, M.D. At a minimum, they have completed 40 hours of intensive skills training, 94 hours of field experience, individual coaching, and regular in-service training. The Lead Facilitator for your workshop, Tim Dempsey, has conducted over 200 Community Building Workshops since the mid 1990s and has both designed and delivered a variety of training programs for both the consumers of social services and for professional providers and who use the model in their programs and practices. Except for the organization that Scot Peck established to promote Community Building, his organization, Chattanooga Endeavors, has been conducting Community Building longer than any other in the world.
Tim Dempsey Lead Workshop Facilitator [email protected] +1 423 902-6695
Dimitri Topitzes UW-Milwaukee Social Work Program Chair [email protected] +1 414 229-3004
Debbie Davis UW-Milwaukee Lecturer Executive Director of the Milwaukee Area Time Exchange [email protected] +1 414 305-9505
Anne Lamb UW-Milwaukee Social Work Program Assistant [email protected] +1 414 229-6526
We are grateful for the generous support of the College of Community Engagement & Professions which has made this Community Building Workshop possible.