Community workshops involve education and facilitated dialogue, but are smaller in scale than a town hall, ranging from twenty to a hundred participants. Workshops follow the interactive format of a charette or design workshop. Shared Vision encourages the use of visual tools such as maps, drawing, photographs and graphic images that allow participants to express their ideas visually.

Workshops on opportunity sites have been held for seven infill sites along Central Avenue. These workshops can serve as a model for proactive, collaborative site planning involving developer and community participants.