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Trainings are free for members of South London Citizens.
For non-members, to attend the Regional 2-day Training, the cost is £400, and £800 for the National 5-day Training.
Regional 2-day Training
Friday 24th and Saturday 25th September, 2010
Application form: click here
Reading for training: click here
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National 5-day Training
[residential]
Monday 4th October to Friday 8th October, 2010
Application form: click here
Reading for training: click here
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National 5-day Training
[residential]
Monday 14th February to Friday 18th February, 2011
For more information about the National and Regional Trainings provided by South London Citizens, get in touch with your organiser. Contact details of your South London Citizens organisers: click here.
Community Organising Training
What is Community Organising?
Community organising starts with the recognition that change can only happen when communities come together to compel public authorities and businesses to respond to the needs of ordinary people. It identifies and trains leaders in diverse communities, bringing them together to voice their needs and organises campaigns to ensure that these needs are met. Barack Obama worked as a Community Organiser in Chicago in his twenties and never forgot the lessons he learned there.
South London Citizens offers a schedule of two and five-day training courses aimed at developing communication, personal leadership, and team building skills.
The training develops the skills necessary to be an effective community leader, and is suited to people who are new to community organising as well as those with many years of experience. The course syllabus includes:
• new leadership techniques
• how to connect faith and values to practical action
• the role that power and self-interest play in holding a group together and making the world work
• an introduction to a campaigning methodology that helps strengthen your organisation and gain recognition and dignity for you, your family and community.
Learning is through role play, formal lectures, video, and group discussion. The tutors are all experienced community organisers working in different parts of the city. Previous attendees have been of various ages, from teenagers to pensioners. They include people from Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Jewish and Hindu congregations, and from local trade union branches, student groups, tenants organisations, and community centres. The diversity of attendees makes the training even more valuable.
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