Workshop: A Connected Community Approach to Resilience Strategies

Sept. 3, 2026

You are invited to join us for a workshop on September 28th with award winning community developer Anne Gloger from Catalysts' Circle (British Columbia) featuring The Connected Community Approach.  Now, more than ever, we need to find ways of connecting with each other to tackle the pressing interconnected challenges facing our communities. Join this workshop to learn more about the proven approach to community building that Anne Gloger has championed. 
 

Workshop: A Connected Community Approach to resilience strategies, plans and actions - The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts

Where: Laurier Community Hub in 232 King Street North (second floor)
When: Monday, September 28th, 2:30 - 4:30pm
Hosted by: Viessmann Center for Engagement and Research in Sustainability (VERIS)
Costs: No registration fees, but registration is required
 

Description: Waterloo Region is a hub of innovation and the home of deeply impactful community building efforts.  As across the country and around the world we are facing increasingly interconnected challenges (climate change, lack of affordable housing, cost of living, etc.) all while seeing our social fabric fraying, Waterloo Region is positioned to take a lead on integrative, relational and community centred strategies, plans and actions to reverse this trend. In this workshop we explore the Connected Community Approach and its implications for Waterloo Region. The Connected Community Approach is an innovative by-the-community, for- the-community framework designed to mobilize whole-of-community strategies that help foster the conditions that underpin healthy, equitable and resilient communities - now and in the face of future crises. 

Speaker Bio: Anne Gloger has spent her career delving deeply into the whys and hows of effective community development and its implications for broader systems change.. Anne believes that only by embracing authentic investment in communities, relationships and equitable processes  will we see the kinds of transformational change that our world so desperately needs. As Executive Director of Catalysts' Circle, and co-lead on impactful projects like Visionary Communities, Anne supports researchers, consultants, governments, organizations and institutions to use a Connected Community Approach to advance whole-of-society, community-centred wellbeing, resilience and equity strategies.  She does this by leveraging more than three decades working with and in communities, and especially from her role as founding Director of the  East Scarborough Storefront and Centre for Connected Communities.  Anne's educational background is in Early Childhood Education (Centennial College), Social Development (University of Waterloo) and Business (Wilfrid Laurier University).   Over her career, Anne has received numerous  awards for her work, including  the Jane Jacobs prize, the Courage to Lead Award, the William P Hubbard Award for Race Relations, and Leading Women Building Communities.  Anne lives with her partner in beautiful British Columbia; when she is not working, you will find her out on her bike, exploring the great outdoors, cooking or curled up with a good book.


Registration: Registration is required and is limited to 25 participants.

Please register early, use this link or the QR code.