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Week | Training Topic | Training Description |
Meeting 1 | Personal Vision | Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to create a personal vision for their life and work, including through reflection and writing. |
Meeting 2 | Cover Story | Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches a method of visioning that uses the artistic metaphor of a “cover story” on a newspaper or magazine. |
Meeting 3 | Leading Learning Circles: A Train-the-Trainers Approach | Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants how to plan and lead a learning circle reflection (from the tradition of Highlander), building their facilitation and project management skills. |
Meeting 4 | Bridging the Gap between Service, Activism, and Politics | Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants to combine their understanding of service, activism and politics into a more comprehensive and effective worldview. |
Meeting 5 | Get-Out-the-Vote | Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to organize voter registration and education efforts in a non-partisan manner, as part of civic duty and citizenship. |
Meeting 6 | Action Planning | Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches concrete strategy for action planning. Students learn to identify a challenge or issue and create written plan including SMART goals. |
Meeting 7 |
Building Coalitions |
Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants ways to build coalitions around a common goal or project, a key skill set in more complex capacity building or community change. |
Meeting 8 | Fundraising on Campus: Raising Funds Through Events |
Bonner Curriculum workshop provides students with knowledgeable tactics for raising funds on campus. It focuses on networking, establishing credibility, and how to navigate your campus procedures when hosting events. |
Mid-Year Retreat |
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Meeting 9 | Power Mapping | Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants a strategy for understanding relationships and leveraging relational power, using power mapping, a technique for organizing and resource use. |
Meeting 10 | Bonner Curriculum workshop focuses on guiding participants through the mapping of resources, determining where participants need to focus further effort, and exploring ways to build their funding network. This first session aims at identifying current and prospective funding resources. | |
Meeting 11 | Building Career Networks | Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to build their professional relationships and career networks, important for future job seeking and post-graduate success. |
Meeting 12 | Exploring Non-Profit Careers | Bonner Curriculum workshop exposes participants to facts about the non-profit sector and careers, including resources for learning more, reading profiles, and networking. |
Meeting 13 |
Advocacy 201: Meeting with an Elective Representative | Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants strategies for effectively meeting with an elective representative (like a Mayor or City Council member) to educate them about community issues. |
Meeting 14 | Vocation: Two Choices | Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants think about their vocation and calling, developing reflection skills and critical thinking. |
Meeting 15 | Homophobia: Countering It | Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants through thinking about discrimination related to sexual orientation and more complex diversity issues. |
Meeting 16 |
Vocation: "The Bridge Builder" Poem and Reflective Discussion |
Bonner Curriculum workshop uses 'The Bridge Builder' activity to challenge participants to think, with intentionality, about the importance of mentorship in their lives and the lives of others. |