Our Programs

Our Turn provides a variety of experiential learning activities to meet the needs of your organization. We also offer free consultation to determine which development opportunity would work best for your community’s needs.

Experiential Learning

Learning a developing skill doesn’t have to just exist through power points in an office. Unique learning can be designed specifically for your organization that incorporate the arts, wilderness, learning abroad, and visits to community partners. Contact us for collaboration in designing your experiential learning program!
 

WORKSHOPS

Our Turn offers group facilitation, in partnership with community based artists, to create space for dynamic youth and adult experiences. Previous topics have included: Bringing Clay into Professional Practice, Plant Energetics, Youth Speak Outs, and Power Up at Portland Art Museum. Check out our workshop tab for current offerings.

Consulting

Our Turn is here to assist your organization through consulting and design of a scope and sequence that meets your organization where you are and helps to usher you to where you’d like to be. The following are examples of our areas of work:

Racial Justice and Embedding Justice Tools
Staff & Board Retreats and Trainings
Development of Strategic Plans and Toolkits
Data Analysis and Generating Reports
Arts and Literature Circles
Parent and Family Engagement
Policy & Bylaws
Arts Integration and Curriculum Planning
Mindful Facilitation

Our Impact

Our Turn was founded by licensed educator, artist, activist and outdoor enthusiast Aviva Shannon McClure in 2018. Aviva has worked together youth, families, artists, community leaders, educators and administrators to generate movement for positive change. Through adult and youth education, curriculum, staff training, policy, and transformative justice, we promote better outcomes for historically marginalized populations. Our team is growing, and building our programs relies on you!

10+

Years Offering Equity training

When transforming our organizations into equitable environments, we begin the process of eradicating disparities that exist. Efforts to center experiences of marginalized populations stretch far beyond establishing a more diverse work force. This effort requires an examination of structures from the within our own mental models and upbringing. Staff & Board training and ongoing coaching for equity play a key role in developing anti-racist capacities for educators, students, artists, and community leaders. In addressing the barriers courageously, we find more equitable outcomes for our community; enhancing the development of neighborhood and our future.

13+

Years data Analytics for Social Justice

In order to move an initiative forward, it is essential to begin with highlighting data. Your team is invited to share existing your story with Our Turn that will lead efforts in collaborative problem solving; attending to impactful organizational improvement. Often this involves identifying populations that have disproportionate outcomes, measuring that disparity, empowering community voice and referencing research-based best practices. Highlighting institutional impacts in BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and Title IX protected identities is recommended.

15+

years teaching, Administration, and the Arts

In over 15 years of teaching and organizational leadership, Aviva has worked as a teaching artist, K-12 classroom teacher, assistant principal, youth advocate, and artist. With other Our Turn teaching artists and community leaders, our patrons report higher levels of engagement, collaboration and a sense of belonging. Diving into work for transformative justice isn’t passive, but a daily process that leads to deeper connection. We can help support your process and while offering the sensitive care that your journey requires.