Welcome To The CWS Trainings + Workshops
The Community Welfare System is a working framework.
Learn how to put it to work.
How to Build Your Own Community Welfare System
Live Workshops Every Month!
We host live virtual workshops where you work through the Community Welfare System framework in real time with other builders. These aren't lectures.
We will:
→ Walk through the CWS Mapping Worksheet as a group
→ Break into small groups and collaborate with other builders
→ Draft a real community welfare system for your community
→ Leave with an actionable plan, not just notes
Trainings
The CWS Training is a four week cohort that trains and certifies community members, organizers, social workers, nonprofit staff, and everyday people who want to build a Community Welfare System in their community.
You will learn directly from team members of Seeds Worth Sowing. You will work alongside a small group of serious builders from across the country, and you will leave with a real certification and a real implementation plan for your specific community.
This is not a webinar series. This is not a passive course. This is four weeks of active, live, cohort based work that ends with something you will confident and ready to implement in your community.
**We encourage groups ready to lead together to sign up as a team. Individuals building something for the first time in their community are also welcome.
What You'll Learn
Week one — Understanding the framework
Where the Community Welfare System framework comes from, how it builds on the tradition of mutual aid, and what makes it different. You will leave this week with a clear understanding of the five pillars and why each one matters.
Week two — Knowing your community
Using the CWS community needs assessment to map what already exists in your community and where the real gaps are. You will not build something your community does not need. You will build something it has been missing.
Week three — Building your model
Taking the five pillars and applying them to your specific community context. You will begin drafting your CWS implementation plan — the document that becomes your roadmap and your certification project.
Week four — Sustaining what you build
How to fund your CWS, how to share leadership so no single person holds everything, and how to keep going when things get hard. You will complete your implementation plan and submit it for certification.
A completed CWS implementation plan for your community.
An official CWS certification and digital badge from Seeds Worth Sowing.
Access to the private CWS Builder Network community.
A cohort of peers doing this work alongside you.
The framework, the language, and the credential to make it real.
What you walk away with
Who is this training for?
Your group has been the one your block calls. You have organized the food drive, started the group chat, shown up when someone needed rent covered. You know your community has what it takes to take care of itself. You just need the structure, the language, and the framework to make it official and make it last. The CWS training gives you exactly that.
The Community Builders
You work inside systems that were never designed to fully serve the people you care about. You see the gaps every single day. CWS certification adds a community centered, people powered credential to your practice and gives you a framework you can actually bring into your work, your organization, and your clients' communities. This is professional development that means something.
The Professional Practitioner
Are you an institution, foundation, or city agency?
We offer organizational training and consulting engagements separately. Those conversations start at the button below.