Certificate in Community Storytelling: Online Cohort
Mar 28, 2023 - Sep 15, 2023
| $1,290Online Training Dates
MARCH 28-31, 2023
SEPT 12-15, 2023
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It’s community building, it’s networking, it’s spiritual growth. It’s one of the best programs I have ever done.
I learned my story matters which has given me confidence and bravery in my personal and professional life.
Not only will you become a better storyteller, you will learn how to use story as a great democratizing force within your community.
The Certificate in Community Storytelling provides practical tools that draw individuals and communities together in meaningful and healing ways.
Improve your storytelling skills while learning how to build and strengthen community within a transformative, collaborative, and supportive learning environment. The Certificate in Community Storytelling: Online Cohort is for anyone interested in learning how to use the power of personal storytelling to heal, enrich, and mobilize communities for good.
The full program begins with a three-and-a-half-day online intensive March 28-31, 2023 and closes with another three-and-a-half-day intensive September 12-15, 2023. The intensives will involve lecture, small group sharing, and group discussion. Online sessions will be three hours, held twice each day, with breaks in between. During the workshop, participants will be given supplemental reading, handouts, and video links to support the online work.
Between the spring and fall intensives, participants seeking certification will gather monthly for online training, troubleshooting, and discussion.
Participants will be required to design and complete a community storytelling project with individual coaching and mentorship by Hearth facilitators. In addition to the two intensives, participants will receive five months of online group teaching (90 minute gatherings once a month) and five months of personal story coaching (one personal phone call/zoom meeting a month).
Individuals who complete the certification course will:
- Understand how stories function in our personal and public lives
- Learn how to create transformative events that deepen relationships within a local community or organization
- Explore narrative practices that promote individual growth, social awareness, and community action
- Learn how to create a variety of public story-sharing platforms that engender trust and vulnerability
- Gain concrete skills for community storytelling including story recruitment, event promotion, audience building, public participation, media integration, and fundraising
- Learn how to craft personal stories for speaking, teaching, and facilitation
- Increase skills for coaching groups and individuals in personal storytelling
- Discover methods for amplifying the voice of marginalized populations
- Learn how to apply storytelling techniques within families, friendships, and other informal gatherings
The Certificate in Community Storytelling is ideal for nonprofit staff, social entrepreneurs, government officials, educators, parents, ministers, therapists, journalists, artists, social justice activists, and anyone seeking to strengthen families, local communities, or charitable organizations. Registration is limited to thirty-five participants.
Dates:
- Opening intensive: March 28-31, 2023
- Tuesday, 1-3:30pm PST
- Wednesday-Friday 9-5pm PST
- Interim teaching and coaching: April-August
- Closing intensive: September 12-15, 2023
- Tuesday, 1-3:30pm PST
- Wednesday-Friday 9-5pm PST
First Intensive Only Option:
- Opening intensive: March 28-31, 2023
- Tuesday, 1-3:30pm PST
- Wednesday-Friday 9-5pm PST
- Does not include the second intensive or monthly meetings.
Pricing:
- Tuition Cost: $1290
- Deposit: $250
- First Intensive Only: $590
Additional Information:
- Payment, registration, and cancellation policies – please review before you register
- Media consent / opt-out form.
- To learn more about scholarships for BIPOC community builders, be placed on a wait list, or find out about other training opportunities, please email us at certificate@thehearthcommunity.com.
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