THE OPPORTUNITY TO BROADEN ONE’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY. AN INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

Do you often feel that you work in isolation or in compartments?

That all the educational work falls on you?

Can you see the continuity of the work you have started?

I present to you a short introductory capsule on community intervention and invite you to open your gaze from a systemic perspective to observe the opportunities for actions, resources, and actors you have in the environment where you work. Community action is a strategy and a working methodology based on networking among all the people who work in a territory. It allows establishing relationships and channels of communication that facilitate the exchange of information or resources. Applied to the socio-educational field, it aims to connect all those environments and contexts that can become educational.

Throughout this capsule I propose the basics to begin discovering with curiosity how to become familiar with this methodology: to know and recognize actors and resources, connect, and key aspects to respect its implementation (time and process, trust and interdependence, and shared objectives).