Beyond the Toolkit:
Community-Engagement in COVID-19

How did we get here?

We are a team of community-based and academic community-engaged practitioners who have been interested in creating a dialogue about facilitation, participatory design and social justice across a number of fields: participatory research, community arts, participatory visual methods, and community facilitation. We are particularly interested in learning how community-engaged practitioners have adapted their participatory work to online and remote settings, as a result of COVID-19, and the unique ethical and pedagogical challenges that arise.

This website shares findings, resources and illustrations as informed by a pilot study and virtual event series, "Community Engagement in COVID-19". Our goal is to support community-engaged practitioners in reflecting on, and adapting their facilitation practice to online and/or remote settings. We are particularly invested in having conversations about facilitation, as grounded in a social justice framework.  While we dream of gathering in-person again, we hope that these resources may help practitioners navigate the opportunities and tensions of hosting community-engaged gatherings, meetings, and workshops online and remotely, as we weather the storms of COVID-19. For more on our project and for information on how to cite materials within this web-resource visit the About Us and Acknowledgements sections.