PASCEP0610 - Community Capacity Building Curriculum: Reconstruction Inc.
Course Description
Community Capacity Building Curriculum (CCBC)
Goal is to develop a stronger culture, by modeling principled relationship building skills and enhance self and organization assessment skills. We will increase our understanding and language regarding various personal, communal, and societal/global situations. These goals will improve how we interact with each other, the natural environment, and the history and expectations of a new way of being present.
This model has been taught in the prison system for over 31 years through Reconstruction Inc.
RECONSTRUCTION INCORPORATED is a grassroot community capacity building organization with a curriculum designed to assist society to govern by changing ourselves to change the world.
The Reconstruction Curriculum is designed for individuals, families, and community groups in and outside of penal institutions. This curriculum enhances protocols, agendas and processes that focus on developing our maximum capacity to principally govern ourselves.
Instructor and Founder of Reconstruction Inc: William Goldsby
Born in Selma, Alabama, incarcerated twice during the Jim Crow era in Selma and one while in the Military. Attended Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from Western Washington University with a B.A in Education. Served in the Peace Corp in Central America working with Youth Development and Women-In-Transition. Interviewed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission while in Southern Africa. Founder of Reconstruction Incorporated. Architect of the History and Reconstruction Project that explored Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. Co-authored Reconstructing Rage. Philosophy is that we must access our organic intelligence, manage our own perceptions and liberate our imaginations.
Course Outline
THE CURRICULUM CONCEPTS
1st Pillar: Leadership Awareness entails understanding the principles and practices of four themes, which include growing from understanding the tension between: 1) Alienation to building community; 2) Arrested development to self-determination; 3) Co-dependency to reciprocity; and 4) Individualism to collectivism.
2nd Pillar: Situation Management builds on and connects to both the previous pillar and the next one, and demonstrates how to understand the differences between crises, ongoing drama and situations in general. Also, it helps with interpersonal and group dynamics by identifying overt and hidden situation management tools within individuals and groups.
3rd Pillar: Support Group Development teaches members how to, with intentionality, create and facilitate three different pathway for support systems. One is a sub group, grassroot initiative and organizations , and institutional collaborations.