Education and Workshops

All

All programs are customizable and each workshop can be offered as a one-off 60-minute to 2-hour workshop!

This five-part series supplemented with advising hours aims to equip facilitators, event producers, and managers with the tools, resources, and collaboration needed to build skills and confidence around impactful and equitable facilitation.

***All programs are customizable and each workshop can be offered as a one-off 60-minute to 2-hour workshop!***

Part 1: Welcome + Accessibility and Structure
-Equip yourself with tools to build an impactful and clear agenda with timing & transitions
-Build a foundation for effective meeting participation and breakout room structures
-Explore skills and tools that are necessary to facilitate for accessibility

***All programs are customizable and each workshop can be offered as a one-off 60-minute to 2-hour workshop!***

Part 2: Decision Making
-Explore various structures for facilitating decision making
-Explore consensus-based decision-making as a way to mitigate harmful decision-making power dynamics
-Start to build a map and analysis of the different types of decisions you facilitate

Part 3: Attunement and Reading the Room
-Build confidence to attune and respond to the changing needs of a group
-Gain a deeper understanding of attuning to non-verbals and how to engage with them
-Learn how to make and receive an empathy guess

***All programs are customizable and each workshop can be offered as a one-off 60-minute to 2-hour workshop!***

Part 4: Confidence and Conflict
-Gain tools for navigating moments of uncertainty and conflict
-Explore the differences between insecurity, arrogance, and confidence and how they show up in facilitation
-Practice what it feels like to embody confidence

Part 5: Integration, Dreaming, and Planning for the Future
-Review and reflect on lessons learned, takeaways, and what folks are hoping to continue to integrate as they move forward
-Share dreams with the future and come up with one tangible next step for reaching that dream
-Close out with feedback and gratitude

***All programs are customizable and each workshop can be offered as a one-off 60-minute to 2-hour workshop!***

This 7-part coaching and education program PLUS advising hours is for facilitators, event producers and managers to expand capacity and skills around communicating, facilitating and building programming from a place of consent, care, and accountability.

***All programs are customizable and each workshop can be offered as a one-off 60-minute to 2-hour workshop!***

Part 1: Welcome, Expanding Vocabulary, and Non-violent Communication Empathy Guess
-Ground into the space, expectation setting, introductions
-Explore the meaning and somatics of attunement and empathy
-Learn and practice making an empathy guess

***All programs are customizable and each workshop can be offered as a one-off 60-minute to 2-hour workshop!***

Part 2: Confidence and Non-Verbals
-Explore nonverbals, and how they impact communication on a person-to-person basis
-Gain a deeper understanding of attuning to non-verbals and how to engage with them
-Explore the differences between insecurity, arrogance, and confidence and how they show up in facilitation
-Practice what it feels like to embody confidence

Part 3: Saying No and The Yes-to-No Spectrum by Mia Schacter
-Explore the meaning and somatics of consent beyond an enthusiastic yes and hell no binary through Mia Schacter’s Yes-to-No spectrum
-Practice giving and receiving no’s from a place of gratitude and curiosity

Part 4: The Life Cycle of A Boundary
-Explore boundary setting as a somatic experience
-Explore how power dynamics how power dynamics impact our ability to listen to our bodies, communicate our needs/desires, and set boundaries
-Build boundary setting and receiving confidence through exploring recognizing our limits, building tolerance for others reactions, and holding or repeating a boundary

***All programs are customizable and each workshop can be offered as a one-off 60-minute to 2-hour workshop! ***

Part 5: Supporting colleagues and participants in mental distress
-Build consent-centered skills for supporting people in need of mental health support
-Learn structural and somatic tools for giving and receiving feedback

Part 6: Reviewing Feedback, Lateral Harm, and Building Consent & Trauma-Informed Programming
-Review, process and discuss next steps for 1-3 instances of feedback or harm
-Review and discuss 1-3 programs and discuss how to further integrate care, consent and accessibility

Part 7: Integration, Dreaming, and Planning for the Future
-Review and reflect on lessons learned, takeaways, and what folks are hoping to continue to integrate as they move forward
-Share dreams with the future and come up with one tangible next step for reaching that dream
-Close out with feedback and gratitude

***All programs are customizable and each workshop can be offered as a one-off 60-minute to 2-hour workshop!***

Radical Mental Health First Aide by Oumou Sylla - @connectwithoumou

This workshop will teach you some of the skills necessary to support those experiencing a crisis/ stressor in a trauma informed, embodied and consent aware way. You will learn de-escalation tips and strategies. You will also be offered non-carceral resources, tips and tools.