Transformative Leadership

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I invite you to join a five-day live course experience designed for facilitators, practitioners, organizers, and leaders who want to deepen their ability to engage communities with equity, authenticity, and belonging at the center.

📅 Course Schedule

Live sessions: March 27, 28, 29 and April 4–5, 2026

Course access opens: March 25, 2026 (orientation + materials)

Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 Pm with 30 minutes for Lunch

Location: Zoom link will be provided in March 2026

Participants with 100% attendance will receive a 5% refund of the course fee.

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CTC is a journey; we will create a safe and brave space to build trust, connection, and relationships to learn from each other and practice humanization to develop a sense of belonging. Every CTC journey is unique. Facilitators listen to participants' interests, issues, concerns, and feelings to customize the course for each group. For example, a group of funders and foundation executives might be interested and focus on different topics and issues than public health practitioners.

Transforming Leaders into Animators

We will examine and ignite our critical thinking and inner consciousness. Critical Consciousness is learning the history of inequity and its impact on the current situation to envision an equitable community and society. This is not a traditional course. Participants are asked to enter with an open mind and enthusiasm to learn about themselves and each other while simultaneously practicing humanization and hands-on facilitation skills. Merriam-Webster dictionary. Define humanization as "increasing human interaction and repairing a relationship," free of oppression."

Objective

By the end of this course, you will gain:

The ability to hand-on facilitate with confidence and care: Learn how to guide meaningful conversations, even on difficult topics, with empathy and skill. Design and practice your own facilitation sessions to build real-world skills and confidence.
Practical tools for asking better questions: Move beyond quick fixes and learn frameworks that uncover root causes and shared understanding.
A new way to understand leadership and power: Reframe leadership as presence, humility, and shared ownership—not control or authority.
A deeply human learning experience rooted in trust and belonging: Grow personally and professionally in a space where reflection, dialogue, and connection matter.
To raise consciousness: Active dialogue on social issues that participants are interested in.
Support sustainable, quiet transformation: Honors lived experience and creates change that communities can truly own.

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Why Community Transformation?

The short answer is that it works! When we use community, we refer to the group of participants attend in the course. Our combined experiences have allowed us to understand that our emotions fuel us to open ourselves, listen, and reflect on ourselves and our relationships with family, colleagues, communities, and the world. Through our transformations and bursts of enlightenment, we aim to create a safe space and foster hope, justice, and equity.

Methodology

Paulo Freire’s philosophy and methods will serve as a foundation and framework to guide our collective learning. Traditional education ignores feelings, but this methodology focuses on feelings, (heart), analysis (mind) and action (body or doing) for change. We believe that feelings connected to motivation lead to motivation breaking through apathy. When apathy is broken, then it naturally leads to action on a personal, organizational, and/or community level.

Course Structure

(Time required for this course is 40 hours.)

Day 1, the learner builds the foundation to create a space where people feel safe and brave to connect, build relationships through sharing, and be open-minded and vulnerable.

Day 2, the learner will experience facilitation through dialogue and active participation.

Day 3, small groups work together to identify and examine a generative theme that impacts their personal lives and those of their families and chosen communities.

Days 4 and 5, group members will facilitate their identified theme and practice facilitation skills.

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