Sat. Nov. 19, 11am – 5pm This workshop will address the challenges of facilitating debates about tactics, strategy and other priorities. Participants are encouraged to arrive with specific challenges they have or are navigating in their activist work. This workshop is geared to people with some facilitation experience. Location: University of Toronto St George Campus, OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Room 2213. Trainers Mike Balkwill is a long-time organizer and co-author of … [Read more...]
Facilitation workshop 101
Sat. Nov 5, 1pm - 4pm A major part of movement building is lots of meetings. Meetings can be inspiring, hellish, or somewhere in between. The quality of a meeting depends a lot on good facilitation. Facilitators aren’t supposed to run the show, and they do more than keep track of who wants to speak. Come learn and share strategies for fostering good communication, equity, active listening and effective decision making for meetings of all shapes and sizes. Location: University of … [Read more...]
Media Strategy 201
Sat. Oct. 15, 1pm – 5pm You have already written a number of successful press releases, and done interviews for your group. You know what it takes to get media for an event, but you want to step back and look at the larger picture. This workshop will look at the bigger picture questions that go into developing a media strategy for a long term initiative. The training will cover framing, story-based narrative analysis, social media, understanding the media story cycle, and building … [Read more...]