Facilitation Workshop Weekend - London

2-Day Facilitation Training For Organisers Do you feel out of your depth facilitating your meetings? Concerned about clashing personalities, political disagreements, or how to ensure everyone’s perspectives are heard? If you’re part of a social movement group in London, whether you are new to facilitating, or want to deepen your skills – this 2-day workshop is for you! ​As a grassroots facilitation and training collective, we've learnt a thing or two about meetings. And with so much organising and mobilising to be done across many fronts, we want to equip more people to feel ready and confident to facilitate meetings in their groups and campaigns. This full weekend workshop will provide the opportunity for deeper practice, so please sign up if you’re available both days. Aims of the weekend: • Build confidence to facilitate meetings in our groups • Practice key facilitation skills such as: • Designing agendas for fruitful meetings • Working through disagreement • Supporting decision-making in alignment with your values • Building a toolkit of facilitation tactics, to keep your meetings engaging and effective ​What kinds of meetings might this be useful for? • ​Day to day / regular meetings in campaign or community groups • ​One off meetings ​This isn’t aimed at: • ​Facilitating a large gathering or conference • ​Facilitating a group conflict or mediation ​ Who are Resist + Renew? ​We're a small training and facilitation collective with over 60 years of movement experience between us. This session will be run by Kelsey (she/her) and Sami (she/her). Find out more about R+R and the trainers here: https://resistrenew.com/ Timing 10am - 5pm Saturday & Sunday, please sign up if you can attend both days. Costs ​We're offering this training for free, but welcome and encourage a sliding scale contribution where possible, from £5 to £150. Food Basic drinks, snacks and lunch will be provided. ​Accessibility • ​​There is a lift in the venue, we will be on the 3rd floor. • ​​COVID - This training is in person, and so we ask people to do a lateral flow test before coming, and to wear a mask on the day. We will provide tests and masks on the day for anyone not able to access one. • ​​Regular breaks and learning styles - we will make the agenda available on the day, include regular breaks, and design the workshop to meet different learning styles throughout the day. • ​​Toilets - There are gender neutral toilets at the venue • ​​Dietary requirements - when you book a ticket please let us know of any dietary requirements. All food will be labelled with allergens. • ​​Costs of attending - We can make a contribution to travel and childcare costs if necessary - please let us know when you book your ticket that you will require this. ​​Please let us know if you have any additional access requirements and we will do our best to meet them.