Training and Workshops

Our Next Workshop

Summer 2023: Ultimate History Summer Camp
June 12-15
Breakfast and Lunch Included
$25
CLICK HERE to REGISTER

Our Workshops

We offer specialized training for you, your family, and your businesses. We can help you discover what you didn’t already know, and substantiate what you do know in the historical record. We customize our fees to fit your needs.

Our Most Popular Workshops:

  • The Craft of Oral History (Introduction to Oral History)
  • One Life in Historical Context
  • Background Research for Oral History
  • Writing the Questions
  • Archiving
  • Fact-Based Historical Stories

For Students: We were founded by students. So our training is student-centered and adaptable to any age group. In addition to our most popular workshops, consider:

  • Your Family in Historical Context
  • Holiday Interviews with Family Elders
  • The Ethics of Student-Conducted Research
  • Consent, Shared Authority, and Future Use

For Teachers: We use Student-Centered Oral History to guide teachers of all content areas and expertise to use oral history and personal stories to empower their students. In addition to our most popular workshops, consider:

  • Student-Centered Oral History
  • The Ethics of Student-Conducted Research
  • Consent, Shared Authority, and Future Use
  • Oral History for the Non-History Classroom

For Oral Historians and Storytellers: We teach oral historians to develop questions that lead to stronger stories, and to use completed oral histories in meaningful ways for research, scholarship, publication, and teaching. We teach storytellers to reach out for meaningful content, and to use conducted oral histories to reclaim the history of our community through their work. In addition to our most popular workshops, consider:

  • Oral History for Publication
  • Analyzing an Interview without Transcription

For Community Members: We will hold space for your stories and celebrate your history. In addition to our most popular workshops, consider:

  • Your Family History
  • Institutional History for Nonprofits & Churches
  • Institutional History for Corporations & Businesses
  • Doing Local History

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Testimonials

Coming Summer 2023

— Student Reflection

Coming Summer 2023

— Oral Historian

Contact

historysouthmountain@gmail.com

or

Summer.cherland@southmountaincc.edu

@smcchistory

7050 S 24th St
Phoenix, AZ 85042