Stage 2 - Quiet Voice Methodology Foundation Certificate
The course can be delivered in two formats to suit your needs:
A one-day intensive covering all lessons—often preferred by organisations training staff.
A weekly session over six weeks—commonly chosen by groups training volunteers or community members.
Let us know your preferred format, and we’ll arrange the delivery accordingly.
Learning Outcomes
BEING PLACE BASED
Unit 1 - Reading Landscapes
By the end of this Unit you should be able to:-
- Read the topography of a street or landscape feature.
- List at least three landscape elements that can help tell the history of that place.
- Identify the characteristics of the predominant building stone and bricks (e.g. colour and texture).
- Note significant views and features on the horizon.
Conduct a place-based survey. - Generate Community Animation questions and ideas from that survey.
Unit 2 - The Built Environment
By the end of this Unit you should be able to:-
- Recognise the features of the most common local suburban architectural styles.
- Provide an approximate date for terraced houses with pale decorative bricks mixed with red.
- Explain to residents why pale decorative bricks turn up in the built environment for the first time in this period.
- Describe and date the dominant building materials on any chosen street.
- List the main characteristics of an early medieval planned village.
- List three street plan anomalies that may be indicative of local history.
Unit 3 - Principles of Placemaking
By the end of this Unit you should be able to:-
- Provide a definition for the term “Placemaking”.
- Name one of its earliest proponents.
- Give an example of a well-known New York public space that has been created using Placemaking principles.
- List the four key attributes of what makes a place great.
- Give examples of what Triangulation and Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper approaches might look like on your own street.
BEING TRANSACTIONAL - WORKING WITH THE QUIET VOICE
Unit 4 - the Transactional Relationship
By the end of this Unit you should be able to:-
- Assess individual community participants in terms of the relationship to place.
- Recognise different behaviours associated with specific ‘Ego’ states.
- Create a plan to work effectively with other groups.
- Create a plan to work effectively with local traders.
- Describe and recognise individuals presenting “supplicant” or “rebellious” Child state behaviours.
Unit 5 - Extending the Right Invitation
By the end of this Unit you should be able to:-
- Design a RCCI (or RICI) invitation to participate that is sensitive to a particular neighbourhood.
- List the factors that will be “deal breakers” and put people off.
- Identify existing Assemblies in your Place as defined by Cormac Russell and John McKnight.
Unit 6 - Evaluation, Analysis and Reflective Action
By the end of this Unit you should be able to:-
- Describe the difference between quantitative and qualitative data.
- Find analytics data on your website and social networking.
- List and describe two ways of analysing quantitative data.
- List and describe two ways of analysing qualitative data.
- Design an evaluation report for local authorities.
- Design your own Reflection-in-Action routine.
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