Session 3 of Welcoming Communities – an Online Course of Exploratory Discussions

This is the 3rd session of a weekly, 6-session online course of exploratory discussions on the topic of “Welcoming Communities” that the Interactivity Foundation is facilitating in partnership with the Diversity Relations Council and the Center for Lifelong Learning at Leisure World in Silver Spring, Maryland.  In this course, registered participants from Leisure World meet weekly online via Zoom.

The six class discussions for this course are participatory, interactive, and additive—they build on the ideas discussed and developed in prior sessions by the participants.  In this 3rd session, participants will begin diving deeper into their concerns, underlying issues, values, goals, and some of the challenges of this topic as they consider questions like the following, as well as their different answers.

• What are some of the key challenges or questions we might face in creating and sustaining welcoming communities?
• What root causes or underlying issues might be at play?
• What values, goals, or goods are related to these concerns or challenges?