four note friday 1.18 | Hosting a Photovoice Workshop!

In about a month, I am hosting a two-day, in-person, intensive photovoice workshop in downtown Muncie, Indiana. And I cannot wait. For detailed information and registration, see here. The essential details are outlined below.

When?
Friday, December 19 & Saturday, December 20, 2025
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM each day (with a break for lunch)

Where?
Hue House — Downtown Muncie, Indiana
(second-floor space in a historic building; no elevator access)

Cost?
Regular Registration Rate: $525
Graduate Student Registration Rate: $425 (use code GRADSTU)

Who?
This immersive workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Amanda O. Latz as part of her photovoice field notes initiative.
It’s ideal for:
▪️ Graduate students
▪️ Academics
▪️ Nonprofit leaders

Please note. Space is limited to just six participants.

The last time I hosted such an event was 2019. I've missed working directly with folks interested in learning about and applying the photovoice methodology. Seeing dots become connected and understandings deepen and widen are some of my favorite things.

This upcoming workshop will be very small—limited to just six attendees. There will be a lot of engagement, guided workshopping time, and personalized discussion and feedback. Furthermore, Hue House is hosting us! And Hue House will provide us with a comfortable, enveloping, and creative space to learn and grow.

In what follows, I will share four reasons for you to consider registering for the workshop. Spaces are still available! Hope to see you soon.

🟣 Being in Community

This workshop will take place among a small community of like-minded others all working-learning together. Sometimes learning is at its best when it's social. The workshop will involve individual reflection and workshopping along with group discussions and activities. We are going to learn as a community. Everyone teaches, and everyone learns.

It can be very difficult to have conversations about photovoice with others whose visions of research involve a narrow swath of approaches. Think petri dishes, surveys, and/or statistical analysis. There is nothing traditional about photovoice. At the workshop, we'll all be working toward co-constructing a shared language around our work. We'll be using words like participatory, advocacy-oriented, and trauma-informed. You do not have to worry about an undercurrent of judgment here! Photovoice is a legitimate form of inquiry—period. I get it, and you will be supported!

🟣 Cultivating Empathy

In addition to creating a small community of co-learners, we'll also be building empathy. Empathy will be abundant, no dount. Again, we'll all be on the same page about the power and promise of this approach. We'll engage with one another in a knowing—or a coming-to-know—way. Many of us will enter the space with experiences of research and/or photovoice-related challenges and triumphs to share.

Furthermore, through engaging in a series of activities and discussions, we'll build empathy around the experience of being a participant within a photovoice project. What does it feel like when you learn there are others out there who share your joys, experiences, and concerns? What is it like to have your truth on exhibition for others? These questions, and many more, will open spaces for us to forge stronger empathic understandings of participants' experiences, enabling us and and those alongside us within these projects to (reverse) engineer the project's design in thoughtful and attentive ways.

🟣 Using Multiple Perspectives

Through the workshop, we'll look at the photovoice methodology through a variety of perspectives or lenses. This will allow us to see elements of the process anew. For example, we'll consider photography skills, museum learning, program planning, and policy theories. Using multiple perspectives to see the many tendrils of a photovoice project will give way to new strategies, adaptations, and approaches.

🟣 Growing Skills

To be sure, facilitating a photovoice project must involve study. Reading the topical, theoretical, and methodological literature related to any given project is a must. In addition, facilitating a photovoice project also involves the application of some specific skills.

Here are a few example questions we might engage with during the workshop:

▪️ How do I prepare an institutional review board application for my photovoice study?

▪️ What strategies should I use during a photo-elicited interview?

▪️ How do I figure out who the spokespersons for our project should be when it comes to policy change advocacy?

▪️ How do I figure out which journals will publish an article based on the photovoice project we are planning to carry out?

▪️ How can I convince my doctoral committee that a photovoice study is legitimate?

To recap, I am REALLY excited about this upcoming workshop! And I would love the chance to work with you.

🥹 Thanks for spending a moment with me this Friday.
💌 If you’re new here, welcome! I hope this space becomes one you look forward to each week.

📬 Have a question you want me to answer in a future issue? Reach me at photovoicefieldnotes@gmail.com. I'd love to hear from you.

Thanks for being here.

Warmly,
Mandy
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