Day 1 – October 21

Cecil Community Centre, Toronto Neighbourhoods

Place:

Learning from the field through immersive community tours and connections with local leaders

Day 2 – October 22

Evergreen Brickworks

People:

Building skills and supports to continue, sustain, and equip us for the next horizon of changemaking

Day 3 – October 23

Evergreen Brickworks

Policy & Systems Change:

Creating the enabling environment for systems change and collective action

Gather together to connect as a learning community.

Experience one of six immersive community tours to learn about local initiatives, including:

• Transformative Community Land Trust

• Social Enterprise at Scale using asset-based approaches and community wealth building.

• Neighbourhood Action & the Community Benefits Movement.

• And more!

Optional evening gathering to share stories and build connections

Reconvene the learning community

• Reflection from community tours: seeing possibility, progress, gumption, and the power of relationships & trust.

Plenary – Navigating shifting ground

• How polarization and limited levels of trust are impacting community change efforts.

• Being a bridge builder and other roles are required to advance our work.

• Reflection – the inner and external work of changemaking.

Initiative showcase

Music, art, and walks

Deep-dive workshops – Building practical changemaking skills, including:

• Community engagement – participatory decision-making approaches.

• Collaboration – defining and framing your issue.

• Collective leadership – conflict transformation.

• And more!

Plenary – 10 years later: lessons learned from longer-term initiatives about sustaining community-based work

Reconvene the learning community

Getting to systems change – learning session, interactive activity, group sensemaking

The Next Horizon panel – What system leaders are anticipating, and the role of place-based collaboration as the engine of systemic change

Block 1 - Advocacy & movement building

Tool carousel of effective strategies and actions

Block 2 - Prototyping, scaling, and embedding new solutions

• Case studies

• Discussion and sensemaking

Music, art, and walks

Block 3 - Policy Change

Contribute to a community-driven policy change agenda

• Financial security

• Guaranteed Basic Income

• Poverty Reduction

• Entrepreneurship

• Belonging

• Climate Justice

• Youth Employment Pathways

• Inclusive economies

Close the learning community