The Interactivity Foundation is pleased to share this recipient of our inaugural Cohort Training Awards: Allegheny Family Network in Pittsburgh, PA. Our awardees will bring together a cohort to participate in IF’s Collaborative Discussion Coach training, developing skills and mindset to strengthen democracy.
At each institution, participants will receive approximately 12 hours of training in how to facilitate activities from the Collaborative Discussion Toolkit, an open-access resource with 50+ agendas that can be used in classrooms, communities and workplaces.
Participants in each cohort training will be certified by the Interactivity Foundation as coaches with the ability to offer certificates in collaborative discussion. Institutions were selected based on the unique vision they shared for their coaches to take the skills learned in the training forward whether through navigating contentious conversations in classrooms (and dorm rooms!), learning from communities impacted by structural inequality or implementing new approaches to exploring enduring questions of civic responsibility and justice in today’s polarized society.
Each participant who successfully completes the training will receive a certificate and digital badge in collaborative discussion. These freshly minted coaches will then be supported by the Interactivity Foundation as they design and tailor certificate programs to their communities, ensuring that the skills they’ve learned reach an ever widening circle.
Congratulations to the Allegheny Family Network Cohort! We can’t wait to see the ripples you create in your communities and we are proud to be a part of the work you do to strengthen democracy wherever you are.
