Trainings and Workshops

In this introduction to community engagement concepts and strategies, participants will learn more about the concepts that govern strong community engagement work. Learn more about opportunities for engagement in Winston-Salem and make a plan for future engagement. This workshop is designed for individuals who are interested in being more involved in the community outside of Wake Forest whether they are students, staff, or faculty and want to learn more about community engagement work across higher education.

Explore what it means to you personally to be a civic leader through frameworks for leadership and identity development. Learn reflection techniques for engaging more meaningfully.

Deepen your civic engagement with these strategies for reflection. In this workshop you will learn techniques for leading small and large group reflections on community engaged experiences and practice by thinking critically about your own civic journey.

• November 13, 2019 | 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Benson Center 409

Register for Civic Reflection

Are you wondering how you should be measuring the effectiveness of your program? The “Evaluation Methods” training module walks through different assessment tools and helps to begin the assessment process for your organization.

The ‘Sustaining a Tutoring and Mentoring Program‘ training is all about building partnerships. What will happen to your organization when you graduate? In this workshop, you will learn how to building lasting partnerships with schools and organizations to sustain your program.

Your one stop shop for preparing to engage in a community-based project.  This workshop covers relationship building, project scoping, and impact measurement while also highlighting several different theories of community engagement to help you think critically about your own community-based work. This workshop can be tailored by audience (ie: for a group of faculty or a student organization) and includes personal goal setting.

• October 21, 2019 | 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. |  ZSR Library 476 

Register for Introduction to Community Engaged Practices

In this interactive session, students will investigate the principles of community organizing. Participants will evaluate strategies for building coalitions and designing campaigns for social change.

• November 19, 2019 | 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Benson Center 410

Register for Organizing, Advocacy, Social Change

In this highly participatory workshop, you will work alongside other workshop participants to dig deeper into seminal moments in the history of Winston-Salem and ask questions about what they tell us about the city we live in, the residents that have led and continue to lead it, and the work that still needs to be done.

• October 4, 2019 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | ZSR Library 476
• October 24, 2019 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Reynolda Hall 301
• November 8, 2019 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | ZSR Library 476

Register for Lunch and Learn: People’s History of Winston-Salem

This is a three-part series. Participants will investigate identity, power, and privilege; consider systems of oppression and liberation; and identify strategies for advocacy and social change.

• October 29, 2019 | 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.| ZSR Library 476
• November 5, 2019 | 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.| ZSR Library 476

Register for Social Justice 101

UndocuPeers is a professional development opportunity for faculty, staff, and students to examine the particular challenges facing undocumented students in the United States. In 2017, the Office of Civic & Community Engagement collaborated with United We Dream to develop a training to raise awareness about undocumented students and educate the campus community.