About Choosing Change
Choosing Change works with people engaged in social, community or organisational change – for example, regenerating disadvantaged neighbourhoods, developing people-friendly organisations, or building sustainable communities.
Many people would subscribe to the principle of ‘empowerment’ – empowering communities to control things locally, empowering disadvantaged groups to challenge discrimination, empowering customers to influence services, empowering staff to buy in to their organisations. But putting empowerment into practice is another matter.
Our belief is that, for empowerment to be meaningful, it has to happen at both an organisational and personal level. Organisations need to create new ways of enabling people to participate effectively. But individuals need also to tackle the internal barriers, the self-defeating habits of thought and action, that so often hold us back.
Choosing Change aims to share learning about how people transform their lives, organisations and communities for the better. It was set up in 2005 by Roger Saunders.
Whats On
Choosing Change currently offers 4 types of training:
In-house courses for community groups are courses that can be booked by your organisation, and we will come to you and run the course locally.
In-house courses for staff and managers are courses about communication and empowerment, designed to help staff give of their best and get the best from their organisations. Again, we come to you.
Open courses at Trafford Hall are courses we run at the National Communities Resource Centre in Chester.
Open courses for InSTEP
are courses we run at various venues around the country