Resources
Explore tools, methods, and courses designed for social innovation and community change.
My work as a Change Agent is divided into two main areas
Two Approaches
Process Design & Facilitation
Community development is a beautiful thing with many tools. Often when we are working for social change we host events that neither engage people nor lead to collective action. Here are some things I can help with:
Two Approaches
Social Inovation
for Social Change
Social innovation has become like the flavour of the month, and like the term sustainable development it has many interpretations depending on your world view. Social innovation comes from the community
According to the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience, based on their research into systems transformation, social innovation is ‘a new program, policy, procedure, product, process, or design that seeks to address a social problem and to ultimately shift resource and authority flows, social routines, and cultural values of the social system that created the problem in the first place
Resources in three themes
Politics of Unity
Healing For Change
Community As Classroom
Applying experiential, engaging and empowering process in community for change and learning.
The Social Innovation Tools include
- Tools that can be used in many settings and contexts
- Engaging, experiential learning activities – some can be done in an hour some take a full day
- Workshops from one to two hours, or full day – this is a sequence of leaning activities
- Full courses, like Solidarity is For Everyone, and others in the Services workshops tab
There are dozens of tools that can be purchased from this site.
Go to the shopping cart to view the tools and resources I have created over years of teaching, developing public policy and programs, political organizing, community development, and advocacy. Clicking the shopping cart takes you to a learning platform where you can see profiles of my various tools. Plans for online courses, with slides, reference materials, with instructions for use, all on the learning platform in the works.
Success Stories
Hear how communities, leaders, and partners describe their experience of working together for meaningful change
I have worked with Marianne on worker engagement for the UFCW Security Sector membership. Marianne’s straight forward and direct approach in developing our project, and her ability to collaborate with multiple organizations and stakeholders provided the results our organization was striving for. It has given us significantly increased worker engagement and awareness of labour and workplace issues for this industry. Our collaboration has also given us a solid pathway to build on for this sector or our membership. I highly recommend Marianne as a “change agent” for any engagement project.
I first worked with Marianne when she was an advocate at the West Central Women's Resource Centre and I was chair of their board. I have continued to connect with Marianne on various projects over the past 2 decades. I have found her to be very resourceful and thoughtful. Marianne has a great ability to analyze situations and offer creative solutions.
The Community Development program was the best experience of all my schooling. There was historical context, plus applied skills. It brought all my skills together in a tangible way that could be applied in the community. The course Working Across Differences, taught by Marianne Cerilli, had a big impact on me. We unpacked all the assumptions we learn over our lives. It was about trying to understand other cultures, oppression, and colonization. It pushed me toward a genealogy search.
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