VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS
Creative Invitations: Play And Participation in Virtual Spaces
How can we lighten up during a time that feels so heavy? Explore how you can create and participate in fun, light-hearted experiences that allow for community building to take place in virtual spaces. This workshop will explore how to cultivate in-depth connections in a digital world, yet still in a way that integrates hands-on approaches with tangible resources. Specifically, students will explore this through a Betterish project called The Meet Cart. Created as a mobile stricture where strangers meet, greet and play, the Meet Cart is where unfamiliar people become unexpected pals. In a world of disconnect, divide and now social isolation, Betterish has created this pop-up social space where simple games and activities bring people together in meaningful and engaging ways. Take part in an innovative approach that is currently bridging and bonding different kinds of people together for the better.
Learning Objectives:
Students will be introduced to the power of play through simple prompts and activities that links creative engagement to social bridging.
Students will explore skills to think critically about creative interventions.
Students will partake in an interactive project that will ignite creative connections through craft, play and reflection.
Hope: The Bridge Between the Possible and Impossible Amidst a Global Pandemic
Did you know hope is a measurable and malleable thing? It’s more than a feeling, more than a wish, more than an emotion. A person with hope has goals, motivation to achieve those goals and creates a pathway to obtain achieving those goals. How can we increase hope in a time of uncertainty? Now more than ever we need to be seeking, creating and spreading messages of hope. Learn ways to increase hope and apply the science of hope into your own life and the lives of others.
Learning Objectives:
Students will learn the science behind hope and the critical thinking skills necessary for increasing hope.
Students will learn how they can actively have a role in making the future better by fostering hope via small, tangible actions that will lead to a big impact.
Students will learn what drives others to feel hope and how collective hope can make huge cultural changes.
Unexpected Connections: Community Partnerships in Unlikely Places Amidst COVID-19
What do sewing, healthcare, and baking cakes have in common? Not much, actually, except for when COVID-19 strikes our country and our world. This workshop will explore different perspectives on what it really means to collaborate, support and grow together amidst a global pandemic. We’ll specifically explore how local businesses, organizations and people are showing up and developing new partnerships in unlikely ways.
Learning Objectives:
Students will learn the power of creative and unexpected collaborations.
Students will explore what it means to be resourceful and resilient in a global crisis.
Students will learn how a project, business, or hobby can successfully pivot.