Applications Now Open: 2024 Advanced Facilitation Training

Advanced Facilitation 3-Day Training

Monday, February 26th - Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
In person. Washington, DC.
Post-training virtual LAC: Thursday, March 21st, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST
To apply visit: Advanced Training Series

“I will create more opportunities for members to be artistic, creative, and visually engaged.  I will make sure that ice breakers become a necessary and important piece of group process, and I will incorporate consistent rituals and group agreements to build community and spark trust.  I will do a much better job of putting time and intricacy into my meetings to create stronger, engaging, and strategic spaces.  I feel I have added a bunch of tools to my toolbox.”

Our communities and organizations will be powerless without cohesive and well-developed bases that share a rooted analysis and have built the trust and discipline to react and plan as a united group. Well designed, consistent gathering places, and the reflective and skilled facilitation of them, are irreplaceable steps in developing this type of constituency. However, these essential skills are often overlooked as expendable "soft" components of organizing.

​Far from being a luxury, effective meetings and skilled facilitation are vital in building a sense of common identity and cohesion necessary to transform a group of individuals into a constituency that can envision change and take the necessary risks to attain it. These ensuing "relationships of action" drive movement-based organizing work. 

In our in person Advanced Facilitation Training (AFT) you will learn and practice how to:

• ​​​​​deepen your active facilitation and listening skills,
• ​develop and manage healthy group processes,​
• develop impactful, multi-modal, graphic and arts-based agendas, and
• utilize meetings as a strategic tool for constituency/base building​.

MM's training approach is also grounded in somatics, expressive arts, story-sharing, popular theater, and ritual practices that engage participant's bodies and minds so that they can more fully experience the training content and deepen their growth. There will be an additional 2.5 hour virtual post-training Learning and Action Circle (LAC) to ensure the learning and integration of the materials.
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​18 content hours + 2.5 hr LAC + workbook and specialized resources.
​To apply visit: Advanced Training Series
Space is limited.​

​For more information on our Advanced Trainings or to bring an Advanced Training to your organization, connect with us.
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Movement Matters is based in Washington, DC.
We work regionally with various communities and with national partners.

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