Registration fees increase from $525 to $675 on April 1, 2024
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Registration fees increase from $525 to $675 on April 1, 2024 〰️
The Dignity Institute is an internationally-recognized capacity-building experience for those whose work impacts the ways people experience their communities. To-date over 1200 public service employees have completed a Dignity Institute cohort. Dignity Institute differs from traditional “training” environments because it incorporates storytelling, healing practices, and community-building.
This year’s Dignity Institute will take this concept a step further by allowing participants an opportunity to learn Dignity Infused Community Engagement and urban planning concepts in partnership with community members and within community-centered settings.
In addition to the structured classroom-style learning that will take place in the mornings, participants will be able to choose two immersive experiences with our community partners. This is intended to provide an applied learning experience that creates or strengthens the participants’ human connection to the work.
Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided on all three days.
Self-care spaces will be curated and made available throughout the institute.
Details
$525 before April 1, 2024
$675 after April 1, 2024
Location: The David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way, Suite 100, Berkeley, CA 94704
Lodging: Marriott Residence Inn
2121 Center St., Berkeley, CA 94704
Dignity Institute Rate is $219/night (limited rooms available) Use this link to access the discounted rate.
Immersive Experiences
Immersive experiences have been curated to add real-life context to the capacity-building concepts. On a first-come, first-serve basis, participants will be able to choose 2 immersive experiences from the following categories:
1) Mutual Aid, 2) Direct Action, 3) Creative Arts, 4) Oral History, 5) Tactical Urbanism, and 6) Academic Enrichment.
Capacity-Building
Designed for people who care about transportation, housing, urban planning, and social work. Civil servants, elected official staff, community-based organizations, advocates, and community leaders are especially welcome.
Learning Outcomes
1) Become familiar with the Black oral tradition as a scientific method,
2) Learn to implement reparative urban planning,
3) Learn to decolonize bodies and resist contemporary Jim Crow (gender and ability),
4) Understand the difference between climate change and environmental racism,
5) Learn to decarcerate land use, and
6) learn community organizing for the bipartisan infrastructure bill.