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Crossroads II: Community-Based Collaborative Research
for Social Justice
Hartford, Connecticut | June 7-9, 2007
 

EXAMPLES OF INNOVATIVE SESSION FORMAT APPROACHES

One-slide talking points  

As an alternative to a full slide presentation, offer your take-home messages through a single slide combined with interactive discussion, sharing your experiences with the audience and debating the value and generalizability of your experiences and lessons learned for others who wish to apply the same approach.  

Narrative storytelling  

Narratives share a story about successes and challenges that participants/agencies have encountered when implementing CBCR and advocating for social change. The narratives will then foster discussions about lessons learned and possible strategies to avoid mistakes, successful experience in addressing the challenges, or a broader range of possible solutions.

Debate

The debate format brings together two or more individuals with different points of view to discuss a particular issue. The audience can either pose questions to the individuals involved in the debate or can observe the discussion.

Games

Games are interactive sessions in which the experience - or game - helps to illicit discussion

and understanding of a specific topic, theory, method or skill.

 

 

Storyteller Abigail Jefferson at Crossroads 1 Conference in 2004.

Skits/Role Play

Perform a short play to present an issue or topic and raise discussion questions as the scenario is acted out.

We will promote the active participation of conference attendees by offering alternative sharing and dialoguing platforms, creativity spaces, exhibit areas, an artists’ marketplace, networking spaces and chat rooms, hands-on workshops, and educational tours.

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