Workshop:  Nurturing equitable relationships with communities

Kokila Annamalai is a community organiser, researcher, writer and facilitator based in Singapore. She has had over 10 years of experience in community-building and social justice work, focused on amplifying voices and movements from the margins.  She holds workshops and training sessions on topics related to community development, restorative processes, transformative action and inclusive practices.

Kokila Annamalai

How can we ensure that our partnerships with communities honour community life, and the agency of community members?

Communities exist within an ecosystem that either nourishes or hinders community life and self-determination. This ecosystem is made up of many actors (or stakeholders) in society who seek to partner communities, especially communities on the margins. This includes NGOs, government bodies, schools, charitable foundations, academics, artists, activists, social workers, volunteers and corporate companies. These actors come to communities with a range of intentions - to study, help, control, organise, etc. Often, these relationships, even if well-intentioned, can be fraught or damaging to community life, because of competing interests, and unequal power dynamics between the community and these actors. On the other hand, a community can be strengthened by healthy relationships with these diverse actors, including other communities like and unlike themselves. This workshop will explore:1) How different stakeholders, including community-based practitioners, can form more equitable and reciprocal relationships with communities. 2) How community-based practitioners can disrupt unequal power dynamics between marginalised communities and these diverse stakeholders, and encourage relationships that centre the voice of the community, and are in service of the community&#x27;s self-determination.3) How community-based practitioners can facilitate relationships between different communities on the margins, so as to bridge social capital and strengthen solidarity across struggles.This workshop is ideal for community-based practitioners, as well as anyone who seeks to collaborate/partner with communities, whether through offering time, money, expertise, or other resources. This includes artists, cultural workers, social workers, community workers, organisers, researchers, educators, students, donors, policymakers, CSR professionals and volunteers who are involved with a community. Details:This is an online workshop with a maximum capacity of 35 pax per session. You will receive the Zoom link for the session and other instructions by email once you sign-up. The participant fee for this workshop is $25.About the trainer:Kokila Annamalai is a community organiser, researcher, writer, facilitator and arts practitioner based in Singapore. She has had over 10 years of experience in community development and social justice work. She is trained in Family Group Conferencing, Community Conferencing, Community Building Workshop (CBW), Asset-Based Community Development and other modalities of facilitation, training and community-based practice/organisation. She has organised with rural Dalit communities in India, and with migrant domestic workers, low-income families, violence survivors, LGBT communities, marginalised youth, and various civil society, student and arts groups in Singapore.For enquiries, please contact Kokila at communityclassroom.sg@gmail.com.This is the fourth workshop in the Community Development series. Previous workshops addressed <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-facilitating-community-circles-registration-122854957485#" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">facilitating community circles</a>, <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-community-asset-mapping-tickets-127283826351#" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">community asset-mapping</a> and <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-activating-communities-building-competencies-tickets-130878819071#" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">activating &amp; building community competencies</a>. This workshop series will be repeated in the first quarter of 2021. If you would like to be notified of these and other workshops by Community Classroom SG, follow us on Eventbrite, on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/communityclassroom.sg" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Facebook</a>, or <a href="https://www.instagram.com/communityclassroom.sg/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a>.

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