ICCD Sample Curriculum Outline
| Session # 1 |
Community & Cultural Development: Getting to Know the Field and Ourselves
What are the various definitions, myths, and perceptions that impact arts and community development fields? What is Art? What is Community? What is Community Development? What is the History and Ecology of Arts-based Community Development? Where am I? Where do I fit? |
| Session # 2 |
Setting the Table:
Where do I want to be? What do I want to do? What do I know? Where does my organization what to be? What do artists, arts organizations, and community partners need to know before entering into collaborations? What questions do I need to ask? Where do I find the answers? What is my own capacity for this work? What is my organization's capacity for this work? |
| Session # 3 |
Environment: Recognizing Rank and Privilege
How do I recognize my own rank and power? Is the accumulation of power intrinsically negative? How can power be positive? How can it be negative? How can I use rank and privilege as tools for community change? |
| Session # 4 |
Diversity of Learning Styles, Conflict Resolution & Motivating Others
How do I learn and interact most effectively? How do we generate a climate of respect for different ways of learning and communicating with each other, with partners and with community? |
| Session # 5 |
Authentic and Appropriate Partnerships: Organizing and Advocacy
What skills do partners need to enter into successful collaborations? How do partners find common ground and mutual self-interest? What is organizing and how does it relate to the arts and community development? |
| Session # 6 |
Authentic and Appropriate Partnerships: Partnership Strategies
How can partners work together to avoid and solve disagreements?
How do partners share power, define success, and build trust?
What does it take to create a successful long-term partnership? |
| Session # 7 |
Sustainability: Clarity and Purpose- Articulating Your Message
How do artists and community developers access funds and resources differently? How can we work together to find creative ways to sustain our work? |
| Session # 8 |
Evaluation and Public Relations
How do we know if we have succeeded in doing what we set out to accomplish? What data and information is useful and relevant to your various partners (community partners, funders, media, government, etc.)? |
| Session # 9 |
Open Space Technology: Taking Stock of the Journey
Where am I? How am I going to take the Institute home? What are the questions, insights and issues that are of critical importance to me now? |
| Session # 10 |
Open Space Technology and Graduation
What have I learned? |
