Areas of Practice
“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