Community Engagement Practices Webinar: Reflection Activity (Requirement for VCU's Applied Community Engagement Badge)
If you are interested in attaining VCU's Division of Community Engagement's Applied Community Engagement Badge, and attended or watched a recording of Community Engagement Practices Webinar, you must complete the reflection activity below.  To receive the skills badge, please note that the Webinar is one of three required activities. You will also need to have attended, or watched the recording of, the Connect 2023 conference and our Martin Luther King 2024 Keynote event and complete the reflection activities attached to those events.  Please see our website ( https://community.vcu.edu/about/special-initiatives/) for more details. The recordings can be accessed on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@VCUEngage). 

The purpose of reflection is to consider what we learned in a deeper way, and to consider how we can apply that knowledge, insights and lessons to our work and our lives.

Below are five questions. Answer only three. Please select those that appeal to you most. 

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The Richmond Cemetery Collaboratory
Building Community at Richmond’s Historic African American Cemeteries  
The webinar featured the work of the Richmond Cemetery Collaboratory.  The Collaboratory’s mission is to bring together faculty, staff, students, organizations, and community partners in Richmond, Virginia, to document and support African American history and culture via the region’s cemeteries. The Collaboratory aims to produce place-based knowledge that contributes to a community dialogue about caring for our collective past.  In your work with communities, discuss ways in which you produce place-based knowledge that contributes to community dialogue.  
Mutually Beneficial, Reciprocal Relationships
Each partner in the Cemetery Collaboratory was asked to discuss what mutually reciprocal relationships meant to them.  Reflect on the community partnerships in your efforts.  Discuss one that you believe has mutually beneficial, reciprocal relationships. Please explain how you define mutually beneficial, reciprocal relationships, how you built them in your partnership and how you sustain them. Indicate, where applicable, the role of each partner in the process.
Respecting Perspectives
The panel on the webinar all held different perspectives on partnership benefits and expectations.  Reflect on the community partnerships in your work and discuss the perspectives in that partnership. Consider especially how they are different, how those differences add value to the partnership, and how conflicts among those perspectives are handled. 
Insights for Change
Please identify two to three insights you had from the event, and how they changed your thinking about community engagement. 
Select Your Own
If there was nothing here that spoke to you, suggest a reflection that allows you to consider what you heard, did and learned and write that here. Include the reflection question you would like to do and your answer to it. 
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