Unleash your capacity to catalyze change and strengthen your community's civic culture with our Virtual Public Innovators Labs, designed to offer you the best of the time-tested Harwood approach strengthened by our recent work with communities across the country.
Lab 1: Getting Started, Summer 2024
An Introduction to the Harwood Approach and Turning Outward
In five weekly interactive sessions with our team of Certified Harwood Coaches, learn how to catalyze a chain reaction of actions in your community, develop ways to discover what matters to people, discern where your community is starting, and identify how you can show up more intentionally in your work and life.
If you are ready to get started using the Harwood approach, Getting Started is for you!
The next Getting Started Virtual Lab kicks off on July 29, 2024 - register now by clicking the button below.
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Why Turn Outward. You’ll articulate what you stand for that sparks your engagement in the community and the mindset and behaviors you need to make more intentional choices and judgements in your work and life so that you can create a path of possibility and hope in your community.
How Change Happens. You’ll examine how you can catalyze a chain reaction of actions in your community with others and learn how the chain reaction can grow and spread over time.
What Matters to People. You’ll discover why starting with people’s shared aspirations is a critical starting point and the power that public knowledge gives you—to reframe public discussions, enlist allies, develop strategies, and align action over time.
Know Where Your Community Is Starting. You’ll learn how to discern and diagnose where your community is starting—not where you or others wish it could be—which will enable you to calibrate a set of actions that best fit your local context.
How You Show Up. You’ll name and work through key inflection points that you’ll experience as you engage in the work and identify what it will take to show up differently for yourself and others in your community as you move through the public learning journey.
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Orientation: July 29, 2024 | 2 - 3:30 pm EST
Session 1: August 1, 2024 | 2 - 4 pm EST
Session 2: August 8, 2024 | 2 - 4 pm EST
Session 3: August 15, 2024 | 2 - 4 pm EST
Session 4: August 22, 2024 | 2 - 4 pm EST
Session 5: August 29, 2024 | 2 - 4 pm EST -
The individual ticket price is $995. We encourage you to participate in the Lab with your colleagues! Joining as a group can help you align around a common purpose and spread the Turning Outward practice within your organization and your community.
In addition to the interactive weekly online sessions, the individual ticket price includes:
• Copies of Rich’s most recent books
• A Getting Started Guidebook
• A personal learning journal with weekly prompts
• A library of videos on topics we cover in the lab
• A Harwood Public Innovators certificate (upon 80% completion)
• Regular updates from the Institute through our newsletter
• Connection to a growing network of public innovators committed to creating a more fair equitable, just, inclusive, and hopeful society
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Weekly homework assignments: Before each session, you will complete homework assignments including readings, videos, and reflection questions that help you apply what you are learning. Most participants spend about 1-2 hours per week on homework in addition to the 2-hour class session. To get the most out of the Lab, plan for adequate time to complete the assignments on time before each session and reflect afterwards on what you’ve learned and how you can apply it to your role.
Large & small group discussions: In each session, we will have interactive large and small group discussions. Please come prepared and ready to engage!
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A Zoom compatible laptop, desktop or tablet. *Please make sure to have Zoom installed.
Laptop: Windows 7 - Windows 10 or Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) - Mac OS Mojave 10.14
Internet connection: 1 mbps or better (broadband recommended)
Recommended internet browser: Google Chrome
Webcam, microphone and speakers (headset recommended)
Phone (as a backup if webcam is not functioning)
In the spring and fall of 2021, over 100 people from across the U.S. and Canada came together for the first sessions of our Getting Started Virtual Lab! Learn about what they stand for and why they are committed to this work.
Lab 2: Unleashing Impact, Fall 2024
Deepen and Accelerate Your Practice
In five weekly interactive sessions with creator of the Harwood approach Rich Harwood, you’ll learn how to unleash, grow, and spread a chain reaction of actions throughout your community, strengthen your community’s civic culture, develop new ways to engage in ongoing learning, deepen your ability to make more intentional choices and judgments, and stay grounded in the practice over time.
If you’ve taken a previous Lab or used elements of the Harwood approach in your work, Unleashing Impact is the next step to becoming that much more effective.
The 2024 Unleashing Impact Lab dates will kick off on Thursday, September 26, 2024. Registration will open this spring - in the meantime, let us know you’re interested by clicking the button below!
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Unleash a Chain Reaction. You’ll take a close look at the chain reaction—how you can take intentional actions to unleash it and how you can make intentional choices about who to run with to further grow and spread it in your community over time.
Grow Civic Culture. You’ll examine how the actions you take must address people’s shared aspirations and concerns and grow your community’s civic culture—the capacities, relationships, networks, and norms that enable your community to work effectively.
Engage in Civic Learning. You’ll develop new ways of working to engage in ongoing learning and innovation so that you can continually recalibrate your efforts based on what you and others are learning about the community and your shared work.
How You Show Up. You’ll explore in-depth how you show up for yourself and others by becoming more intentional in being Turned Outward in your work and life.
Stay Grounded to Lift Off. You’ll learn how you and those you are working with can remain grounded in the Turning Outward practice so you can accelerate your progress, build momentum, and make your efforts sustainable.
At the conclusion of the program, you will be invited to join two bonus webinars to deepen your understanding and application of the practice. The webinar sessions are optional, but highly recommended!
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Orientation: September 26, 2024 | 2 - 3:30 pm EST
Session 1: September 30, 2024 | 2 - 4 pm EST
Session 2: October 7, 2024 | 2 - 4 pm EST
Session 3: October 14, 2024 | 2 - 4 pm EST
Session 4: October 21, 2024 | 2 - 4 pm EST
Session 5: October. 28, 2024 | 2 - 4 pm EST -
The individual ticket price is $995.
We encourage you to participate in the lab with your colleagues! Joining as a group can help you align around a common purpose and spread the Turning Outward practice within your organization and your community.
In addition to the interactive weekly online sessions, the individual ticket price includes:
• Copies of Rich’s most recent books
• An Unleashing Impact Guidebook
• A library of videos on topics we cover in the lab
• A Harwood Public Innovators certificate (upon 80% completion)
• Regular updates from the Institute through our newsletter
• Connection to a growing network of public innovators committed to creating a more fair equitable, just, inclusive, and hopeful society
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Weekly homework assignments. Before each session, you will complete homework assignments including readings, videos, and reflection questions that help you apply what you are learning. Most participants spend about 1-2 hours per week on homework in addition to the 2-hour class session. To get the most out of the Lab, you must complete the assignments on time before each session.
Large & small group discussions. In each session, we will have interactive large and small group discussions. Please come prepared and ready to engage!
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A Zoom compatible laptop, desktop or tablet. *Please make sure to have Zoom installed.
Laptop: Windows 7 - Windows 10 or Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) - Mac OS Mojave 10.14
Internet connection: 1 mbps or better (broadband recommended)
Recommended internet browser: Google Chrome
Webcam, microphone and speakers (headset recommended)
Phone (as a backup if webcam is not functioning)
“You painted a clear path for how to do the work that repairs, rebuilds, reimagines, and moves people forward toward a common aspiration.”
“It changed my entire perspective on the work that I do, my commitment to my profession, and how I think about how we everyday engage with our communities.”
Meet Our Certified Harwood Coaches
Rich Harwood
President & Founder
Rich Harwood has invested 35 years in revitalizing the nation’s hardest-hit communities, transforming the world’s largest organizations and reconnecting institutions like newsrooms and schools to society.
Ava Fenelus
Certified Harwood Coach, Researcher
From the middle school to the graduate school classroom, Ava’s teaching reflects the idea that learning, especially learning oneself, is a path to liberation, power, and love.
Maritza Coscarelli
Certified Harwood Coach
Maritza is a former professional dancer turned professional speaker and certified life and leadership coach. As Founder of Maritza Coscarelli Coaching since 2015, she delights in guiding others to maximize their potential in life and business and put it to use in service of others.
“Now, anytime I plan a meeting, I’ll think about how the actions or topics are perceived by the audience. Am I focused on me and my organization or on the needs of the community?”
“I learned many valuable tools to make the work I do more meaningful to the people I serve. The classes leave me feeling inspired that each person has the ability to engage and connect with others in a way that fosters a deep sense of support and change.”
