Spoon-carving and Community Building: Bring it to your community for free. Peter Forbes is offering this unique competition to any CWC alumni in the San Francisco area. It asks the question; how can one use spoon-carving to bring community together? The individual or group who submits the best proposal will win the opportunity to bring an inspiring new activity to your community that can weave people together in a meaningful and memorable way. The alumni group with the best idea will win a two-day workshop in San Francisco, taught in Spanish or English, by Peter Forbes. We will provide you and your community with the carving tools and materials to carve up to 18 spoons. Center for Whole Communities has always used the creativity and symbolism of spoon carving as a method for bringing diverse groups together and for helping them to access the possibility of collective action. Spoon carving is fun, meaningful, crosses barriers of class, power and privilege, and is practical. Anyone can carve a beautiful wooden spoon; we know because we’ve taught over 2,000 people how to carve spoons. Spoon carving combines the deeply symbolic with the deeply practical. Please submit any questions and your proposal to Molly by February 15 for how you would use this workshop;
to build new relationships in your community, to deepen existing ones, and to expand or strengthen what you are trying to achieve within your community.
Whole Communities will announce the winning proposal by March 1.