People join social justice movements for a variety of reasons. Recruiting people towards a cause can be an important step in community networking and building momentum. The more folks interested, involved and participating, the more sway your campaign will have. This four hour workshop outline from the social change agency aims to help demystify why people join up with a cause and teach other participants about how to recruit. The outline involves:

Discussing why people get involved, brainstorming

Creating maps of different levels of participation

Dissecting the requirements for each level

This spring Catalyst Centre is exploring activism. Our third conversation of the season focuses on living our activism. All you need to do is show up ready to share, listen and learn.

Join us for a World Café!

The World Café format is a creative interactive way to not only share the wisdom that each of us has to contribute, but also create a space for new ideas to emerge. Bring your favourite cause, activity, and / or fellow activist and be a part of putting action back into activism.

This spring Catalyst Centre is exploring ACTIVISM. 

Our second conversation of the season on May 26th focuses on sustaining activism.

How can we create and sustain activism?

Join us as we look at one local food security initiative and how it is garnering local and international attention & acclaim for its efforts.

All you need to do is show up ready to share, listen and learn.

We look forward to seeing you on May 26th at OISE!

This event is FREE OF CHARGE!

Experience our foundational program (also known as "Ed Design") for effective facilitation skills and creative program design, leading to transformational community learning and development. Our experiential approach allows you in-depth practice, discussion, and reflection. Gain skills, clarify leadership styles and deepen insights into group work - whether you organize meetings or workshops, or design complex projects or programs. For both experienced and novice facilitators, you will learn and practice the popular adult education methodology developed and honed by Tatamagouche Centre over 30 years. Leadership: Rose Adams and Brian Braganza are educators and facilitators, and members of the Program Resource Group at Tatamagouche Centre.

Check out our website for more information!

During Tomee Sojourner's national speaker and workshop tour, a number of topics will be discussed, including:
• Intersectional diversity: Transforming workplace conversations to build sustainable change
• Oppresshun awareness: Moving beyond words into action
• Advocacy, activism, and social issues: Oppresshun awareness & intersectional diversity strategies
• Challenging stigma: "You have an M.A., so how can you have a learning disability?"

Building on the practices of community workers, educators and social change activists Paulo Freire and Myles Horton, the 2009 Toronto Community Development Spring Institute creates a space to explore diverse viewpoints and celebrate community development.

In a spirit of collaboration and democracy, the Spring Institute will be a shared dialogue between community development workers, academics, activists, pacifists, policy makers, artists, researchers and the general community.

Throughout three days of interactive workshops, engaging plenary sessions, and collaborative working groups you will learn lessons from the past, work collaboratively in the moment, and lay the foundation to create a more equitable, and sustainable future.