Active Citizens 3-Day Auckland Course

Active Citizens is a social leadership course which promotes intercultural dialogue and social responsibility as key leadership competencies in the 21st century.

The course also promotes community-led social development, and positive social enterprise.

It motivates people to take responsibility for their social needs and gives them the knowledge, skills and experience to address them. From asset mapping to personal deep introspection, this course is a proven life changer!

Please see delegate feedback from our 2018-19 courses on YouTube.

Join the network of over 250 000 Active Citizens trained in over 68 countries worldwide!

Course info:
The Active Citizens training comprises four core modules:
- Module 1: Me - Identity and culture: Understanding identity and culture is the key to opening minds to new learning and perspectives, changing attitudes, encouraging empathy and creating a stronger sense of social responsibility. It is also critical to problem-solving and building networks.

- Module 2: Me and You - Intercultural Dialogue: participants learn methods of dialogue as a tool for building empathy, trust and understanding within and across cultures.

- Module 3: Local and Global Community - We together: Participants learn how communities are local, global and interdependent and develop skills in mapping the community from a variety of perspectives - problem identification, systems thinking and power dynamics. These are used to identify appropriate interventions and a network to address them.

- Module 4: Social Action/Social Enterprise start-up Planning:Participants focus on planning a social action initiative in their community, considering the process in different levels of detail and complexity. This involves identifying and clarifying their agenda, a specific intervention and how they will deliver it.

Active Citizens initial courses in Auckland will:
- Empower participants to make a positive contribution to the development of their local communities by supporting them to deliver social action and helping them to become financially sustainable through social enterprise

- Support and promote citizen led participation in governance issues

- Provide opportunities to build new networks and uncover new perspectives

- Provide cultural leaders with the practical skills, intellectual perspectives and global networks needed to seize new opportunities, strengthen their organisations and deliver a world-class vision.

- Cultivate a shared sense of purpose among participants and foster a sense of optimism about the future

- Build relationships between community leaders in Auckland and the UK, and globally to share learning in addressing common social challenges

- Provide a framework which supports and feeds into other youth development initiatives in New Zealand.

- Equip participants with key life and educational skills

- Help to build trust, understanding and friendship between and within communities in which participants live.

- Help participants develop productive and fulfilling life paths.

- Provide a framework which supports and feeds into other youth development initiatives in NZ.

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