2017 Summer Institute at The Working Centre

 

 

At The Working Centre, we have been asking these questions for thirty years and they continue to inform our work every day. Through trial and error, we have built a grassroots organizational model that integrates the stability of the systems-world with the continual change and unpredictability of the life-world. We have learned how to build room for adaptability and response – on both day-to-day and long-term scales – into the very architecture of a sound administrative model that is accountable to funders. These practices are foundational to our ability to offer resources to our community that are useful, reliable and sustainable over the long term.

One part of serving community is providing tangible resources and focused supports. Another part, which is bound up in the first, is nurturing the spirit of local democracy: helping to foster a community where people support each other and find joy in connecting together. In our work, the way we respond to the people we serve is important to this community dynamic.

Are you interested in learning more about the practices that we have developed in emergent thinking, personalist practices and local democracy?

Whether you are an individual or part of an organization, we invite you to join us in reflection and conversation at our second Summer Institute in Grassroots Sustainability.

More Details:

The 2017 Summer Institute will take place at The Working Centre’s Fresh Ground, located at 256 King St. E. in downtown Kitchener.
Registration is $250 per person.
To register or for more details, please email Heather Montgomery: waterlooschool@theworkingcentre.org.