Collective Threads Initiative works at the intersection of grassroots knowledge and research-driven practice. Organizations with an annual budget of under $50,000 are eligible for sliding scale pricing.
CTI’s team is ready to work with you to identify which training meets your current needs, or to craft a custom learning space for your team. Contact us to learn more.
Duration: 90 minutes
Audience: All
Description: This foundational training presents the basics of trauma-informed practice and person-centered decision-making using a cross-cultural lens. This training expands the concept of trauma-informed beyond individual trauma, providing practices that are sensitive to cultural, historical, and intergenerational trauma – practices that are relevant to service delivery and trauma-informed workplaces and organizing spaces.
Duration: 90 minutes
Audience: All
Description: Meaningful engagement of people with lived experience is often thought to mean advisory councils, “survivor leaders,” consultants, and speakers. But what could it look like if we questioned how these models came to be, and how we can move beyond them? Rethinking Meaningful Engagement guides attendees through a critical reflection on existing lived experience engagement models, including their benefits and limitations, and then explores alternatives through activity-based dreaming and practical planning.
Duration: 2 hours
Audience: All
Description: This overview of meaningful engagement presents the basic principles from The Meaningful Engagement Handbook. Participants will learn how to put the Lived Experience Engagement Spectrum into practice, and how to systematically work through the levels of the Lived Experience Inclusion Ladder to ensure that lived experience leadership is integrated across programs, rather than siloed.
Duration: 2 hours
Audience: All
Description: The stories shared by impacted people about their lives and communities can transform the way we understand ending exploitation. And yet, survivors of trafficking (and even other forms of oppression or harm) often report feeling tokenized, used, or negatively impacted by the ways they and their stories are engaged by organizations and agencies. This training draws upon the learnings from Azadi Community’s storytelling fellowship and CTI’s research on survivor storytelling to provide guidance on ethical engagement with impacted people’s lived experiences in policy, program, and narrative work.
Duration: 2 hours
Audience: People working or organizing in spaces related to their lived experiences of oppression or trauma; lived experience experts
Description: This training provides an overview of ethical lived experience engagement models, practical considerations, pitfalls, and preparation to provide impacted individuals a solid foundation for launching, clarifying, or reinvigorating their engagements.
Duration: 18 hours
Audience: People working or organizing in spaces related to their lived experiences of oppression or trauma; lived experience experts who support formal organizations in improving their lived experience engagement practices. Maximum of 20 participants per training.
Description: This training helps prepare individuals from impacted communities to be an organisational “coach” (or “technical assistance provider”) for anti-violence organisations that hope to implement the practices and evaluation outlined in the Meaningful Engagement of People With Lived Experience Toolbox. This training does not cover broad consulting skills. Rather, it is a training focused on helping organizations improve their meaningful engagement practices at all levels of their organization through relationships, resources, and skilled referrals. All individuals who complete the full training will have access to additional resources and support from CTI through the “Coaches’ Corner” community, which meets twice/month for virtual peer-learning sessions.
Duration: 18 hours
Audience: People working or organizing in spaces related to their lived experiences of oppression or trauma; lived experience experts who support formal organizations in improving their lived experience engagement practices. Maximum of 20 participants per training.
Description: This training helps prepare individuals from impacted communities to be an organisational “coach” (or “technical assistance provider”) for anti-violence organisations that hope to implement the practices and evaluation outlined in the Meaningful Engagement of People With Lived Experience Toolbox. This training does not cover broad consulting skills. Rather, it is a training focused on helping organizations improve their meaningful engagement practices at all levels of their organization. All individuals who complete the full training will have access to additional resources and support from CTI through the “Coaches’ Corner” community, which meets twice/month for virtual peer-learning sessions.
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