Celebrating Mini Summit 2023 - The Next Generation: What's Emerging in our Communities?
On June 14, 2023 more than eighty Community Development Practitioners gathered on Zoom for our third annual Mini Summit. Over the course of three hours everyone had the opportunity to participate in three sessions out of nine offerings, and we spent some time making sense of our collective learning as well as sharing gratitude before closing out the gathering.
To compliment the learning, we created this miro board to capture the key learnings people contributed to the board themselves or shared in the chat following each session. Many of the links are clickable in the Miro board, or you can view a pdf version here.
Recordings of sessions at this years Mini Summit are accessible below and on Youtube to support continued learning in community. Regrettably there is no recording for Tyson Bankert’s session “Community Development in Perpetuity?”. Slides are accessible below.
“A wonderful learning opportunity - provides a cross section of information that can be expanded at a later time.”
“That it is an excellent and rich learning experience for people doing a variety of CD initiatives. Its accessible and fun.”
Session One
Planet Youth
This session was hosted by staff from organizations partnering within Planet Youth Calgary - Shelina Bata, Sesen Solomon, Camille Losier, Edore Ossai, Kimberly Van Patten. View the session below.
Viewers will learn about Planet Youth, an Icelandic primary prevention model to reducing substance use rates amongst youth. Participants will learn about how the model is being implemented in Calgary and how we aim to take a collaborative, community-based approach to address the social and environmental causes of substance use and discuss evidence-based strategies we can implement in our communities.
Community Development in Perpetuity?
This session was hosted by Tyson Bankert. Unfortunately there is no recording, however, if this is a discussion you are interested in please contact us!
Are you involved in long standing community development projects, programs and practice? How are you feeling about it? Are you about to start? It's time to have a conversation! We get the privilege to see our communities go through iterations the longer we stay active and involved , what are the challenges the opportunities the more we get to be part of it! Let's talk about it!
Bringing Play into community programming
This session was hosted by Sandra Scott, staff member of carya Elder Friendly Communities team. View the session below.
Play opens up minds, hearts and community. Define your play and share it with others to build relationships and reconnect with community. Come PLAY with me!
Session Two
When EDI and Service Design Collide
This session was hosted by Denyelle Fraser. You can find the slides for this session here. View the session below. We recognize and apologize there are some sound quality issues in this recording - it is still a valuable watch.
Often times when we think about Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility (EDIA), we think about Human Resources or People and Culture, but what if we applied the same thought process to service design and program development? My audience will learn my approach to supporting organizations in co-designing solutions alongside communities that are often left without a voice.
Immersing in the community
This session was hosted by Ad Farshori, Bianca Salamanca, Shalini Handa, Noor Al Hamidi, and Raj Neupane, staff of the Trellis Community Development team. View the session below.
Actively Integrating into an Unfamiliar Community and Empowering People towards Development
Ready to Lead?
This session was hosted by Eunice Doroni, Darryl De Dios and Kyara Reynoso from Volunteer Alberta. View the session below.
What happens if empowerment becomes the foundation of youth engagement? Join us as we explore good practices and principles rooted in youth empowerment and their potential to transform our work in youth engagement.
Community Wellbeing: Mindsets & Frameworks
This session was hosted by Perlin Foundation founder Stacey Perlin. You can find slides for this session here. View the session below.
Participants explored relevant systems and scenarios to check their thinking, help them make smarter decisions, and make the intended impact with their community. This is designed for participant involvement and questions, be prepared to engage!
Finding Community & Belonging
This session was hosted by Umoja Mosaic staff member Megan Kimler. View the session below.
Understanding the importance of youth social inclusion through sport and education as a preventative measure for crime and poverty. Social exclusion is often what drives people into poverty. Through sport, education and youth mentorship, we are removing barriers and providing support for youth to participate and succeed.
Mini Summit is hosted by CDLI in collaboration with so many others from volunteer session hosts to the planning working group and those who recorded sessions or documented their key takeaways on the Miro board. Thank you!
If you find Mini Summit a valuable learning opportunity please consider joining the working group and help shape what the next one will look like! Send us an email to find out more!