VRTS

• Participatory Mapping:

  • Allows teams to discover mental maps of community members
  • Steps:

  1. Decide what sort of map should be drawn (social, natural resources, farm, etc.)

  2. Find people who know the area or topic of mapping exercise and are willing to share their knowledge

  3. Choose a suitable place and medium for maps

  4. Help people get started but let them draw the maps themselves, be patient and don't interrupt

  5. Keep a permanent record including mapper's names
• Focused Group Discussion:

  • Gathers people from similar backgrounds or experiences to discuss specific topics or interests
  • Strength: allows people to agree/disagree, crucial element is facilitation
• Community Engagement:

  • Collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities
  • Aims to address safety & security, health, education, environment, livelihood, psychosocial aspects, and more
• Principles of Community Engagement:

  • Social Justice
  • Human Rights
  • Gender equality and equity
  • Empowerment
  • Accountability
  • Partnership building
  • Participatory development
  • Sustainable development without destroying natural resources or depleting ecosystems
• Levels of Community Engagement:

  • Non-Participation
  • Tokenism
  • Informing
  • Consultation
  • Placation
  • Citizen Participation
  • Partnership
  • Delegated Power
  • Citizen Control
• Modalities of Community Engagement:

  • Transactional
  • Transitional
  • Transformational
  • Transcendental
• Participatory Rapid Appraisal:

  • Aims to gain an understanding of complexities of a topic rather than gathering highly accurate statistics on a list of variables
• Can I be a Leader?:

  • 4 mindsets of effective leadership: motivated commitment, passionate, contributor accountability, owner
• Leadership Styles:

  • Micro-manager
  • Macro-manager
  • Hands-OFF Leader
  • The Bureaucrat
  • The Autocrat
  • People-Oriented Leaders
  • Task-Oriented Leaders
• My Moral Journey:

  • Ethics: quest for good defined as happiness-in-rational activity
  • Aristotle's view on achieving a good life
  • Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development: Pre-Conventional, Conventional, Post-Conventional