Mini Summit 2025

Join us for mini Summit 2025

Come together with other community-minded people to explore Rooted in Relations(hip): Community Development as a daily practice of shared strengths, imagination and connection for moving vision to action.

For the first time in this annual event CDLI is hosting two days of Mini Summit!

Virtual on Zoom on Wednesday June 18th 9:00am - 12:30 pm

In Person at Sunalta Community Association on Thursday June 19th 3:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Our gratitude for all those who submitted sessions to share with the CDLI network and community this year - find more on each session in the graphics below.

CDLI’s Reflective Space is happening 10:25am - 11:15am, Wednesday June 18th virtually on Zoom hosted by Victoria.

What is Mini Summit

Mini Summit is a free local mini conference to discuss all things community development. Each year CDLI convenes a Working Group to make decisions about the format, calling question (theme) and host the summit in June. Anyone who is community minded is welcome to attend. Each host designs their own sessions and experiences can vary from session to session - workshops, generative discussions, presentations, hands on activities, etc.

The 2024 theme was Community Development Basics Redefined. Twelve sessions were offered both virtual and hybrid in person. Sessions explored community development from online spaces to empowering youth experiencing discrimination due to their Afro hair, activating spaces to creating and sustaining community-led projects.

The 2023 theme was exploring ‘The Next Generation: What’s Emerging in our Communities?’ We had a wide variety of hosted sessions sharing approaches, successes, challenges, favourite tools, and considerations rooted in what’s next…engaging youth, bridging gaps between generations or the next iteration of the nonprofit and community sector!

Recordings of sessions can be found on our Youtube channel and you can read more about Mini Summit 2023 here and Mini Summit 2024 here!