Trainings

PhotovoiceWorldwide offers both in-person and online professional development through a wide array of courses, trainings, mentoring, and consulting opportunities.

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PhotovoiceWorldwide’s interactive, online courses and workshops

PhotovoiceWorldwide’s interactive, online courses and workshops provide opportunities to learn with like-minded people from around the world.

All trainings include hands-on activities, access to materials and resources, and interactive discussions in real time. Our seasoned instructors have decades of photovoice experience in a broad range of areas and can tailor trainings to meet the specific needs of your group or organization.

Our trainings equip public health experts, researchers, community members, social service organizations, nonprofits and photographers with the tools and skills necessary to capture, discuss, and utilize visual data that narrate community health – from the perspectives of the populations being served.

For more on individual trainings, see below.

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By enrolling in our courses, you will learn how to:

Plan Your Photovoice Project

From inception to execution and saying goodbye.

Facilitate Photovoice Groups

Facilitate sessions with confidence as you engage participants step-by-step through photovoice.

Navigate Ethical Considerations

Understand and address key ethical issues inherent in photovoice and participatory photography practice.

Interpret Photovoice Data

Explore a range of methods for interpreting photovoice data, both photos and text.

Ensure Accessibility and Inclusion

Create a safe and supportive environment where every co-researcher is included in the activities and discussion, regardless of ability, resources, education, or background.

Weave Arts-Based Techniques into Your Project

Use arts-based methods to enhance communication, engagement, and participation in photovoice and participatory photography projects.

Create Healing Opportunities

Incorporate elements of therapeutic photography into your project to promote self-awareness and healing.

Active Learning Emphasis

Our trainings feature a unique blend of content and hands-on, interactive components. Our trainees engage in the photovoice experience by stepping into the shoes of photovoice participants.

Our courses:

Talking with Pictures: Photovoice

This online professional development course provides content, resources, and practice to adapt photovoice to your research, teaching, and program needs. (Meets for five, 2-hour sessions.)

Planning & Implementing Photovoice Projects

Upon completion of this course, you will have the skills and tools to work collaboratively with your photovoice participants to generate data and reach project goals. (Meets for three, 2-hour sessions.)

Facilitating Photovoice: Practical and Creative Approaches

Facilitating Photovoice: Practical and Creative Approaches
This online professional development course provides practical and creative skills, tools, and practice to confidently facilitate photovoice sessions (Meets for three, 2-hour sessions)

Photovoice Method Summer School

This intensive 2-week training provides the instruction, tools, and resources, and mentoring necessary to successfully plan, organize and conduct a project safely and ethically. (Meets for nine, 2/2.5-hour sessions.)

Why Choose PhotovoiceWorldwide?

Client-centered
A wide variety of trainings for inexperienced to advanced photovoice learners
Lively, interactive sessions, with hands-on group activities
Focus on research skillset and photovoice ethical considerations
Incorporate arts-based and therapeutic photography techniques
Prioritize supporting marginalized, underserved, and under-heard populations

Years of experience in photovoice training and facilitating
Expertise in adult learning
Emphasis on project planning and practical skill-building
Emphasis on participation and inclusion
Designed for researchers, facilitators, students, early-stage professionals and clinicians (MSW, SPT, OT, RT)
Experience the photovoice process firsthand: take photos, write captions, engage in discussions, and practice data interpretation and outreach

Testimonials

"The course was eye opening for me. It uncovered secrets to planning and coordinating a successful photovoice.”

"Getting real, applicable, and easy to incorporate guidance on designing and implementing this method. Each step was broken down to ensure we have a good grasp of the why and how of each step.”

"After taking this course, I feel much more prepared to plan and conduct my photovoice study for my master's thesis, and also feel less alone in doing so."

"I just wanted to thank you for creating and running such a rich photovoice course. I enjoyed it immensely, learnt a lot, and really appreciated your generosity of spirit."

"The hands-on workshops allow us to participate in research as co-researchers rather than just facilitators."

"The staff leading the workshops and the mentors with whom we interacted were phenomenal!"

"You really know how to do this work, making sure everyone in the room is seen, heard, and included."

"The most valuable part of the training was recognizing how we as humans really need to grow in our understanding of others' lived experiences.”

"Thank you so much for the kind way you brought us all to the process and held space for each of us in it."

"Fabulous course that I highly recommend!"

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