WORKSHOP OFFERINGS
Our skill building offerings are designed to be interactive–inviting participants to share challenges and practice skills with one another. These workshops are for new and seasoned organizers actively building base, working in coalition, or exploring how to make base and coalition building part of their work. Click on the image below to learn about each workshop.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
Registration is open for our 2025 offerings. Workshops will include a 1-hour opening session, 2-3 hours of work to complete on your own time (readings, videos, activities & reflections) and a 2-hour live group session to get your questions answered, receive coaching and have time to practice new skills. All 2025 workshops have ASL interpretation available by request at least two weeks before that month's opening session. Spanish interpretation is only available for our Fall 2025 offerings, also by request at least two weeks before that month's opening session.
Want to learn more? Join us for our Spring 2025 (English only) or our Fall 2025 (w/ Spanish interpretation) Q&A sessions.
OFFICE HOURS FOR ORGANIZING IN TIMES OF COLLAPSE
BUILDING A BIGGER “WE”: ORGANIZING CONVERSATIONS THAT GROW OUR MOVEMENTS
MAKING ABSORPTION REAL: HOW TO BRING NEW PEOPLE IN AND KEEP THEM
STRONGER TOGETHER: COALITION PRACTICES FOR NAVIGATING TENSION AND DISAGREEMENT
If our workshop offerings do not meet your base building organization’s needs or you would like to bring us to your organization or coalition, please get in touch about our customized workshops. We offer both in-person and virtual learning spaces.
OFFICE HOURS FOR ORGANIZING IN TIMES OF COLLAPSE
Organizing is already challenging without the rise of authoritarianism. Trying to figure out how we build power at a time of heightened uncertainty and weaponized chaos can be disheartening and confusing. If you're struggling in your day-to-day work with turning contacts into active members, keeping members engaged, or dealing with tension in your coalition, the Organizing Center has your back. Join us for Office Hours–a space to get 1:1 support with your challenges and connect with other organizers. The years ahead won't be easy, but we're stronger when we face them together.
BUILDING A BIGGER "WE": ORGANIZING CONVERSATIONS THAT HELP GROW OUR MOVEMENTS
Organizing is about listening to people, identifying what they care about, presenting a vision for what is possible, and moving them to action. It is also about bringing in people that don’t agree with us on everything. To build a bigger “we,” we need to identify ways to connect with people across difference and focus on where there is common ground. This workshop offers an outline and tools for having organizing conversations that move people to collective action.
MAKING ABSORPTION REAL: STRUCTURES & PRACTICES THAT BRING PEOPLE IN AND KEEP THEM
As more and more people become politicized during this moment, we yearn to bring them into our organizations so we can build power and win. But more often than not our organizations are not ready for this influx of people. This workshop teaches the fundamentals of creating leadership development structures & roles that support members to lead in our organizations and stay in our movements for the long-haul.
STRONGER TOGETHER: COALITION PRACTICES FOR NAVIGATING TENSION AND DISAGREEMENT
Coalitions bring together organizations with different interests, access to resources, and relationships to power to work on a shared campaign. These organizations are stronger together and more prone to disagreement. This workshop supports participants to dig into questions of purpose, strategy and decision-making, among others, to get clarity about why they’ve experienced disagreement in their coalition. Participants will have time to learn tools to disagree well and navigate tension in ways that are generative and instrumental in advancing our collective efforts to win big and shift conditions for our people.