What makes a community-engaged facilitator?

Project Title

Dive Right In

Ally Crockford with the Pedagogies of Community Engagement Collective

Authors

This collection of collages is an invitation to explore the world of community-engaged facilitation. By grounding in individual experience, purpose, and uncertainty, they seek to demystify facilitation practice and open it up to everyone, regardless of education, professional experience, or expertise. Stripping away jargon and gatekeeping, we come back to the core challenge of popular education: exploration, connection, care, and liberation. You need no permission: dive right in.

Description

The right side of the collage is dominated by an artist’s articulated mannequin, arm outstretched to the left, holding a smaller figure with no head who is playing the piano. Against a background of starburst designs, cut out words form the following
Cut out words arranged within an ornate frame read “The Challenge: risk and vision are your calling”. Illustrations of a lion and an eagle escape the boundaries of the frame.
A largely blank page with a floral header on which is written, in cut-out letters, the prompt “What is your purpose?” Beneath this, in the top left corner of the open page, is an insert of a pensive fact with the words “support, stand up, collaborati
Another largely blank page with the prompt “write 3 affirmations” written beneath a geometric design. The bottom of the page is lined with a black and white illustration of a landscape showing collapsing bridge on the bank of a river, next to a willo
At the top of the page is the word “Facilitation”. In the top right corner, against a cork banner, cut-out words read “you demand ambition, commitment, and rational values. A perfect ass.” Beneath the title, in a black square, is a poem of cut-out wo
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