Building your community practice framework Masterclass

The Masterclass will:

• Support participants to develop a personal community practice framework, drawing on the work of Participatory Development Practice (Kelly & Westoby, 2018). 
• Support several processes to ‘generate data’ for frameworking through diverse knowledges. 
• Reflective practice knowledge (reflecting on projects and processes participants have been a part of to ‘see’ the actual practice) 
• Embodied knowledge (knowledge held in the body, intuition, emotion) o Knowledge-on-country (knowledge through listening to country) 
• Academic knowledge (from books, theory, including participant archives of academic knowledge that is significant in their lives) 
• Enable participants to identify patterns from the data, thereby articulating key dimensions for their framework 
• Distil a symbol, name and shape that ‘holds’ a memorable version of the dimensions of the framework. 

The masterclass will be potent and practical for:

• Community workers developing their first practice framework 
• Community workers who would like to reflect on, and evolve their existing practice framework 
• Managers of community organisations or NGOs with a community-orientation, to develop their ‘community’ management framework 
• Social workers or other social practitioners focused on community practice