The key to facilitating vibrant, deep, and motivating programs for youth and adults.
Community, youth, nonprofit, education, entrepreneurial, and religious organizations all have exciting ambitions, but they often lack the creative skills to impact people on a deeper level. Catch the Fire is a complete guide to using arts and empowerment techniques to bring greater vitality and depth to working with groups of youth or adults. Based on the premise that you don’t have to be a professional artist to use the arts in your work, this unique book invites group leaders into the realm of creativity-based facilitation, regardless of previous experience.
Including over one hundred stimulating activities incorporating storytelling, theater, writing, visual arts, music, and movement, this detailed guide uses the Creative Community Model to:
- Bridge gaps and unite people across generations and cultures
- Build vibrant, creative learning communities with youth and/or adults
- Fully engage participants and volunteers
- Develop social and emotional intelligence
- Take a deeper, more meaningful approach to learning
Drawing on nearly two decades of experience providing transformative programs to empower youth and adults across North America and around the world, Catch the Fire is a powerful and valuable resource and a much-needed reminder that art is for everyone!
Peggy Taylor and Charlie Murphy are co-founders of PYE Global: Partners for Youth Empowerment and developers of the Creative Community Model, a process for building creative, heart-centered learning communities with youth and adults from diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. Peggy is co-author of Chop Wood, Carry Water: A Guide to Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life which sold over 250, 000 copies worldwide.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: The Call for Creative Community
1. The Creative Imperative
2. An Arts-Based Model for Change
3. The Creative Spark
Part 2: Six Elements of the Community Experience
4. Powerful Beginnings: Building a Community
5. Theme-Based Sessions: Bringing Learning Alive
6 Engaged Reflection: Making Sense of It All
7 Community Arts Happenings: Becoming Creators of Culture
8. Conscious Closing: Optimizing the Learning
9. Empowering Performance: Getting Our Voices into the World.
Part 3: Creative Facilitator’s Playbook
10. Say It with Art: Visuals Arts and Crafts
11. Paint with Words: Creative Writing and Poetry
12. Raise the Curtain: Theater Improvisation
13. Imagine Change: Issues-Oriented Theater
14. Share Our Stories: Storytelling and Witnessing
15. Join the Chorus: Music, Rhythm and Dance
Part 4: Facilitation Tools
16. Building on Strengths
17. Working with Diverse Groups
18. Facilitating Across Generations
19. Creative Facilitation Checklist
Afterword
Notes
Index
About PYE
About the Authors
Об авторе
Charlie Murphy is renowned for his group facilitation and program design work integrating the arts into youth development. He was an award-winning musician with over 30 years experience in the field of experiential learning. Charlie is co-founder of Partners for Youth Empowerment. Together with Peggy Taylor, he spent more than two decades developing the Creative Empowerment Model, a process for building creative, heart-centered learning communities with youth and adults from diverse cultures and backgrounds. Charlie is co-founder of Power of Hope, a creativity-based youth program in the Pacific Northwest, and he was the recipient of an Ashoka Fellowship, in recognition of his achievements as a social entrepreneur. Charlie lost his battle with ALS in August 2016 and is survived by the love of his life, Eric Mulholland.
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