by CCDA National Conference workshops are an amazing space for individuals and teams to learn and grow personally and professionally. This year may be our best workshop year yet! We are hosting the most workshops we’ve ever had and we are adding a new workshop track: Rural Christian Community Development.
For me, workshops are a space where I can connect with expert CCD practitioners to hear more about their experience and gain new tools and insights for adapting best CCD practices in my context.
Check out our featured workshops and plan your workshop schedule today!
Gen Z’s Guide to Changemaking: Civic Engagement and Allyship 101
Gen Z, get prepared and empowered to understand your unique perspectives, bridge knowledge gaps, and take meaningful first steps toward creating positive change in your communities.
Join Roslyn Hernández for activities, personal reflections, and interactive discussions to gain practical insights and tools to embark on your journey of civic engagement and allyship.
Rekindling the Fire: Empowering Your Journey Toward Racial Healing & Collective Restoration
Are you feeling the weight of the racial justice journey? You’re not alone. The path to healing and reconciliation is challenging, often leaving us burnt out, disillusioned, and fatigued. Your destiny and divine calling are too precious to surrender to these obstacles. The purpose awaiting you on the other side of this challenge is far too important to let setbacks prevail.
There will be roadblocks – the insidious effects of white supremacy, the frustration of carefully laid plans being destroyed, and the sting of rejection. Discouragement may feel inevitable. This workshop is an opportunity to reignite your passion and reclaim your power. Portland’s own Velynn Brown, Chief Director of Programs and Operations from Black Parent Initiative leads with transformative strategies for renewal, resistance, and recovery.
Our Entangled Existence: Reimagining The 8 CCDA Principles Through An Ecological Lens
Learn how Scripture gives us a vibrant ecological imagination that leads to the mutual, interdependent thriving of all members, human and non-human alike. Consider how we can embrace the land and all its inhabitants as fellow members in justice-oriented work for everyone, not only land-oriented projects.
Join Stephanie Ann Vander Lugt, LCSW-A, MA, Wes Vander Lugt, and Kate Lingbeek to imagine a holistic CCD work that embraces other-than-human kin as part of the vision of the Kingdom of God through re-framing the 8 principles of CCDA through an ecological lens.
Understanding the World of Juveniles in the Criminal Justice System
Need to learn how to advocate for and serve gang or youth involved in the criminal justice system in your community?
Amy Williams is an OG CCDAer and a lived experience expert within the world of gang-involved youth and the juvenile criminal justice system. Amy pairs her passion for advocacy with her love for serving incarcerated or justice-involved young people. Learn more about how trauma can impact youth and how she infuses CCD into a prioritized presence within the community.
These are just a few of the amazing workshops that you can attend at the 2024 National Conference in Portland! Check out the full list of workshops and plan your schedule.
We can’t wait to see you in Portland this October!
