New Programs: Coming Soon
PREVIOUS COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
Carbon-free, Socially-responsible Investment Workshop
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. October 15, 2022 | In-Person
Eric Souders, Chartered Socially-Responsible Investment Counselor
Invest in a vision of the world you want to live in. Join investment professional and long-time Flagstaff resident Eric Souders for a 3-hour workshop on how to use your personal financial capacity to promote the decarbonization of energy, support human rights, and contribute to planetary health. Eric will present a range of investment tools and options to help you align your investments with your values, now and into the future.
Fee: $90
Eric Souders
Eric Souders is a Chartered Socially Responsible Investment Counselor and Accredited Wealth Management Advisor at Ascendant Financial Solutions in Flagstaff. With over 25 years in the financial services industry, Eric has dedicated the last 14 years to guiding clients through SRI and fossil fuel free investing. As a social justice advocate, Eric was instrumental in Flagstaff’s campaign to raise the minimum wage. Additionally, he is active in the community as a board member for Willow Bend Environmental Education Center, Townsite Community Land Trust, and Arizona Llama Rescue Association as well as a county 4H leader. He operates a small carbon sequestration project through raising camelids and extensive gardening.
For the Love of the World: Relational Organizing for Community Change 3-part workshop
In-Person
Our individual stories are the ground of our passionate concern for the world. Yet we often do not know how to use them in our efforts to make a more beautiful and just world. When we share our stories intentionally, we make connections of the heart crucial to powerful and sustained community action.
In this series of workshops, you will learn the fundamentals of story-based relational organizing.
Workshop 1 - Intimate Stories and Public Lives
October 28, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
October 29, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
What kinds of power do we have and how does it relate to the stories of our lives?
Story-work: finding, telling, shaping, and sharing the stories that ground
our passion and our visions of the world we want to work for.
Instructors: Kim Curtis and Judy Goldberg
Workshop Fee: $125
(Sliding scale reduced fee is available: contact info@FlagstaffCollege.education)
Workshop 2 - Stories in Action: Building, Sustaining & Re-energizing your Group
November 5, 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
The practice of face-to-face relational meetings~ Keeping power horizontal: listening and hearing, mentoring and co-learning ~ Creative meeting facilitation
Instructor: Kim Curtis
Fee: $75
(Sliding scale reduced fee is available: contact info@FlagstaffCollege.education)
Workshop 3 - Campaigns & Flexible Platforms
November 19, 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
ABCs for creating a campaign ~ How to stay nimble: the art of evaluating, the beauty of spider work, and the creation of flexible platforms for action
Instructor: Kim Curtis
Fee: $75
(Sliding scale reduced fee is available: contact info@FlagstaffCollege.education)
Kim Curtis, Ph.D
Kim Curtis has extensive and varied experience in democratic grassroots community organizing. Her approach to relational organizing was influenced by the Industrial Areas Foundation, the nation’s oldest grassroots network, by the brilliant narrative work of Marshall Ganz, and by years of teaching and organizing alongside her astonishingly innovative students at Northern Arizona University.
Judy Goldberg
Inspired by the belief personal stories hold our greatest powers, Judy Goldberg has spent a lifetime uncovering authentic narratives for addressing pervasive social issues. Serving as a non-profit founder/director, public radio host, workshop facilitator, and media producer, Judy finds active listening, ceaseless curiosity and community alliances engender a unique source of renewable energy.
PAST COURSES & WORKSHOPS
FC 400 Writing For Healing, Hope, and Resilience Course
May 21-22 (in person); pre- and post on-line meetings TBD
Annette McGivney, journalist, and author of the award-winning book, Pure Land
Writing can give form to memories, help individuals and groups process emotions, and document traumatic events in ways that are both cathartic to the author and inspiring to readers. It can also help us to think more clearly about root causes and systemic problems, so necessary to renewing personal vitality and community life. Drawing on her own experiences of healing through writing and intimacy with the natural world, author Annette McGivney provides guidance on writing as a journey of personal discovery and a path to healing life-in-relationship-with life.
May be taken as a community workshop or as a 1-unit course. Includes a one-on-one writing session with the instructor.
Fee: $350. (Sliding scale reduced fee is available: contact info@FlagstaffCollege.education.)
Annette McGivney
Annette McGivney is an award-winning journalist who has specialized in long-form narrative non-fiction for more than two decades. Through her work as a writer, educator and speaker she seeks to inspire others to connect with the natural environment and protect wilderness. Annette specializes in teaching narrative nonfiction writing and environmental journalism. As a member of NAU's Journalism faculty from 2004-2020, she helped students learn how to write about place in field-based writing courses, develop narrative and experiential writing styles, and apply investigative journalism skills to uncover the truth. Annette has been the Southwest Editor for Backpacker since 1996 and written dozens of features for the magazine about people and places in the Southwest, including many pieces on Grand Canyon. Annette won the National Outdoor Book Award in October 2018 for her book Pure Land. In addition to Backpacker, McGivney’s work has appeared in The Guardian, Arizona Highways, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Outside, Runners World, Wilderness and numerous other publications.