TRAININGS
PhotovoiceWorldwide’s interactive, online courses and workshops provide opportunities to learn with like-minded people from around the world.
All training includes hands-on activities, access to materials and resources, and interactive discourse. Our courses equip public health researchers, community members, and organizations with the tools and skills necessary to capture, discuss, and utilize visual data that narrate community health – from the perspectives of the populations being served.
Our seasoned instructors have decades of photovoice experience in a wide range of areas. We tailor our trainings and professional development to match your needs.
PhotovoiceWorldwide’s interactive, hands-on courses are currently offered via Zoom. If you are looking for in-person training, head here.
Active Learning Emphasis
By enrolling in our courses, you will learn how to:
Plan Your Photovoice Project:
From inception to execution.
Facilitate Photovoice Groups:
Learn how to engage and guide your photovoice participants step-by-step and with confidence.
Navigate Ethical Considerations:
Understand and address key ethical issues inherent in photovoice practice.
Weave arts-based techniques into your photovoice or participatory photography project:
Apply arts-based methods to engage your group, enhancing participation and inclusion.
Interpret Photovoice Data:
Explore a range of methods for interpreting photovoice data, both photos and text.
Create Healing Environments:
Incorporate elements of therapeutic and participatory photography into your project to promote person-centered healing.
Learn specific Techniques to Ensure Accessibility and Inclusion:
Create a safe and supportive environment where every participant has equal access to the materials and feels included in the activities and discussion, regardless of ability, resources, education, or background.
Active Learning Emphasis
By enrolling in our courses, you will learn how to:
Plan Your Photovoice Project:
From inception to execution.
Navigate Ethical Considerations:
Understand and address key ethical issues inherent in photovoice practice.
Interpret Photovoice Data:
Explore a range of methods for interpreting photovoice data, both photos and text.
Learn Specific Techniques to Ensure Accessibility and Inclusion:
Create a safe and supportive environment where every participant has equal access to the materials and feels included in the activities and discussion, regardless of ability, resources, education, or background.
Facilitate Photovoice Groups:
Learn how to engage and guide your photovoice participants step-by-step and with confidence.
Weave arts-based techniques into your photovoice or participatory photography project:
Apply Arts-Based Methods to Engage Your Group, Enhancing Participation and Inclusion.
Create Healing Environments:
Incorporate elements of therapeutic and participatory photography into your project to promote person-centered healing.
Active Learning Emphasis
Our trainings feature a unique blend of content and hands-on, interactive components. We enable attendees to engage in the photovoice experience by stepping into the shoes of photovoice participants. Trainees are welcome to initiate discussion pertaining to personal projects as time allows.
Our courses:
Talking with Pictures: Photovoice
This online professional development course provides content, resources, and practice to adapt photovoice to your research, teaching, and program needs. (Meets for five, 2-hour sessions.)
Photovoice Facilitation 101: The Basics
Upon completion of this course, you will have the skills and tools to work collaboratively with your photovoice participants to generate data and reach project goals. (Meets for three, 2-hour sessions.)
Practical Facilitation: Arts-Based Methods for Creative Engagement
Learn new approaches and techniques to successfully facilitate participatory photo-taking and arts-based activities with diverse individuals and groups. (Meets for three, 2-hour sessions.)
Photovoice Method Summer School
This intensive 2-week training provides the instruction, tools, and resources necessary to successfully plan, organize and conduct a project safely and ethically. (Meets for nine, 2/2.5-hour sessions.)
Our workshops:
Anticolonial Photovoice
In this workshop series, participants will collaboratively examine their own photovoice projects, the photovoice literature, and examples from the facilitator’s research to learn how to introduce an anticolonial approach into their work. (Three sessions, 8 hours total.) Sign up for one, two, or all three sessions.
Key Themes in Photovoice Research
In this series of innovative and practical online workshops, Dr. Nicole Brown introduces three key themes in photovoice research: data collection, data analysis, and reflexivity. (Meets for three, 2-hour sessions.) Sign up for one, two, or all three sessions.
Why Choose PhotovoiceWorldwide?
- Client-centered
- Years of experience in photovoice training and facilitating
- A wide variety of trainings for inexperienced to advanced photovoice learners
- Expertise in adult learning
- Lively, interactive sessions, with hands-on group activities
- Emphasis on project planning and practical skill-building
- Focus on research skillset and photovoice ethical considerations
- Emphasis on participation and inclusion
- Incorporate arts-based and therapeutic photography techniques
- Designed for researchers, facilitators, students, early-stage professionals and clinicians (MSW, SPT, OT, RT)
- Prioritize supporting marginalized, underserved, and under-heard populations
- Experience the photovoice process firsthand: take photos, write captions, engage in discussions, and practice data interpretation and outreach
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