Beyond the Talk Event
Added: 14/12/2023
Touchstone
Come and join us for the first of our planning calls for the building of a brand new Anti-Conference and collaborative training event “Beyond the Talk: Leeds Walks the Walk”
Our aim is that this will take place in FEBRUARY 2024 developed with a wide-ranging interdisciplinary team both local to Leeds and working internationally.
We would love for you to join us to be part of co-designing a sharing, storytelling, practising and researching space. We aim to create an interdisciplinary space to collaboratively explore participatory processes and practices for building community, conducting research and working for social change in a wide range of contexts.
You will find more information and contact details for the initiating team on the flyer attached, but to answer some expected questions:
What Might Happen?
- Discover new ways of working and thinking,
- Practice facilitation skills for Self, communities, organisations and researchers,
- Find ways to build on the strengths of communities, service users and co-researchers,
- Explore solution-focused approaches to Self and community,
- Hear global examples of strengths-based influence, impact and change,
- Share your practice and knowledge, and learn from peers in other disciplines
Who Should Attend?
- Grassroots Community Development and Engagement Workers
- Community Artists and creatives interested in participatory methods and co-creation
- Activists, Change-Makers and Community Organisations
- Participatory and Community-Led Researchers and Co-researchers
- Community Members and Neighbourhood Activators.
To get involved, please join us for our first scoping call for interested collaborators taking place on 18th December 2023. 10:00am (UK time, online).
To join the Zoom Meeting go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88405208981
Meeting ID: 884 0520 8981