Applications Now Open: 2024 Advanced Facilitation Training

Facilitating Transformational Spaces & Experiences: 
​Advanced Facilitation 3-Day Training

Monday, March 18th - Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
In person. Washington, DC.
Pre-training virtual LAC: Thursday, February 29th, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST
Post-training virtual LAC: Thursday, April 18th, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST
For more information visit: Advanced Training Series

“I will create more opportunities for members to be artistic, creative, and visually engaged... 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 are powerless without cohesive and well-developed member bases that share a rooted analysis and have built the trust and discipline to react and plan as a united group. Consistent gathering places that are well-designed, 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.
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Far from being a luxury, effective meetings and skilled facilitation are vital in building the 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 3 day in-person Advanced Facilitation Training (AFT) you will learn and practice:

• how to deepen your active facilitation, animation and listening skills while understanding your challenges and moving towards growth,
• how to develop and manage transformative group processes,
• how to develop impactful, multi-modal, graphic and arts-based agendas, and
• how to utilize meetings as a strategic tool for constituency/base building and power building from a popular education lens.

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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. In addition, these approaches model ways to deeply ground community members in a lived experience of our collective values. We view these approaches as integral to allow us to embody the world we are trying to create within our organizing practice.

There will be two additional 2.5 hour virtual Learning and Action Circles (LAC) to ensure the learning and integration of the materials.
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​18 content hours + 5 hrs LACs + extensive manual and specialized resources.
​To apply visit: 2024 Advanced Facilitation Training Application
Space is limited. Applications close Monday, February 19th.​

​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 and with national and international partners.