“Education for Action” Workshops

My workshops use adult learning techniques and result in participants’ increased ability to apply new skills in real-world situations, analyze their own experiences in the context of others’, and more deeply understand their roles as leaders. My highly interactive “Education for Action” workshops include:

• Leading in times of challenge and crisis

• Fundamentals of leading teams

• Organizing skills to get more people involved

• Creating campaign plans to win

• Fundraising to bring together the resources you need by activating your leaders

• Campaigns for Change: Building the Power of the People

• Recruitment and Mobilization: From Conversation to Action

• Meetings that Don't Suck... and Instead Are Awesome! (Planning and Running Effective Meetings)

• Nonviolence and Power: Challenging the System

• Developing Your Leadership Team

• Organizing Our Work: Time Management and Work Planning

• Earning Media Coverage

• Planning Kick-A** Events!

• Identity, Oppression, and Privilege: Knowing Ourselves, Building a Movement

• Public Speaking: Take the Mic!

• Steps of Strategic Planning

• Nonviolent De-escalation Skills

• Bystander Intervention: Challenging Oppressive Behavior

• Keeping Our Activist Selves Strong: Self Care

Tailored facilitation

Need to develop the leadership & skills of grassroots volunteers, leaders, staff, and board?

Need to create shared understanding of what’s happening across the landscape of your issue?

Need to develop a plan for a new campaign or a new phase of an existing campaign?

I tailor my trainings and facilitation based on what you need — and my work results in concrete victories and more powerful, member-driven organizations as well as participants’ deeper understanding, sharper skills, and readiness to engage further.

Racial Equity & Justice

Whatever economic justice or social justice issue we are working on, there is a disparity based on race. That means that every economic or social issue IS a racial equity issue.

Racism is used to divide working people, hurting people of color the most and picking all our pockets to enrich the greedy few. We have to come together in a multiracial movement to build the power of everyday people.

In partnership with facilitators of color, I deliver trainings and organizational support for unions and community organizations to create shared language, historical understanding, and commitment to advance racial equity, along with normalizing conversations about race and racism and tools to develop actionable organizational racial equity plans.

Racial equity & justice workshops include:

• Why Race Matters: History, Systems and Strategies

• Racial Justice and Union Building

In addition, I will facilitate white anti-racist caucus experiences, in partnership with facilitators of color leading people of color caucuses. White anti-racist caucuses can responsibly and accountably offer space to process emotions, learn and practice new behaviors and ways of seeing, and plan or take steps to shift power.

planning Retreats, Summits, & COnferences

I can help you bring people together to build relationships and learn from each other while identifying shared challenges and creating practical strategies to move forward more powerfully.

Leaders need to gather to share analysis, craft a uniting vision, and chart a clear path forward. I share tools to lead in times of challenge and crisis, and I create space for participants to hear each other, exchange ideas, and generate solutions. 

Whether your event is in an afternoon or over several days, I’ll listen to your desired outcomes and work with you to lay out and implement an agenda with practical process, relationship-building, and concrete results.

curriculum development

With adult learning and transformational education principles, I develop, coordinate, and facilitate “education for action” training programs for staff, board, and volunteers, based on individual needs and organizational priorities.

I’ve worked with unions representing healthcare workers and educators to create core training programs on union-building, organizing, and representation for worksite leaders. My experience also includes creating curriculum for union members, community leaders, staff, and volunteers on a wide array of topics. What do you need?

Train the Trainers

Need to build internal capacity for facilitation skills? My “Train the Trainers” demonstrate “education for action” and adult education techniques as participants learn and practice the role and skills of facilitators and principles of workshop design.

Train the Trainer participants learn how to:

• Facilitate small and large group discussions and exercises for a variety of learning styles

• Ask questions that will stimulate discussion and critical thinking

• Draw solutions, ideas, questions, and answers from the participants

• Summarize issues, ideas, questions, answers, and solutions for participants

• Build agreement among training participants around key points and issues

• Create a learning environment where participants can be brave, challenge their own thinking, and practice new skills

• Structure workshop design for best retention and powerful application of new skills and concepts