Shared Leadership & Distributed Power - Intensive
Deep dive for organizers and leaders who want to skill up around conflict habits, and practices to move though stuck patterns.
Date and time
Location
Online
Refund Policy
About this event
- Event lasts 2 days 3 hours
Shared Leadership & Distributed Power
Two 3-hour sessions
Wednesday & Friday Nov 12 & 14, 9:30-12:30 PT / 12:30-3:30 ET
In the face of ongoing apocalyptic political crises, our social justice groups and organizations need to skill-up in our ability to build together–fast. Many of us care deeply about practicing our values in the ways we work together, including elements like fairly distributed power and genuine participation. But dominant culture structures don’t teach us how to do this well. What capacities are needed personally, interpersonally, and collectively to make peer governance, consent, autonomy, and shared leadership functional? This two-day workshop will look at what needs to be in place to make shared leadership and distributed power possible in groups, and what capacities (relational, decision-making, and group design) support us to practice sharing power.
Participants will leave with:
- Understanding the value of practicing shared leadership and distributed power;
- Ways to support groups to cope with change, including aligning around a vision and generating action steps that balance imagination, purpose, and doability;
- Familiarity with relational capacities needed to make shared leadership and distributed power possible in groups, including being power-aware, making hard decisions and sharing timely feedback.
- An orientation to decision-making approaches and capacities that support shared leadership and distributed power.
Notes on which rate to choose:
We prioritize our Equity Rate for people and organizations doing movement building work and/or work to build a solidarity economy, led by communities of color, immigrants, and/or working class and poor people.
If you have the means to contribute at a higher rate, we invite you to opt into a higher contribution. Within the abundance of community, we have what we need to sustain this work and continue making it available to those who can benefit.
Appreciation to AORTA and Food Culture Collective for this language.
We have a limited number of pay-what-you-can registrations available.To request one, please use this form.
Facilitator Bios
Jovida Ross
Jovida has over 20 years of experience working with groups to creatively address complex questions and develop proactive, visionary, whole-system solutions. She designs participatory, generative processes and experiential learning to support groups to meet their goals. She has worked with a diverse range of teams, from small restorative justice circles to complex, multi-stakeholder strategic initiatives involving community organizations, public entities, and philanthropy. Her history spans efforts to generate community-based solutions to violence, queer liberation, reproductive justice, ecologically responsive and just economies, and climate resilience; the through-line is a deep belief that together, with commitment and intention, we can reorganize our world to support our mutual thriving.
Weyam Ghadbian
Weyam Ghadbian is a social justice-rooted facilitator, trainer, and organizational consultant who has been working with grassroots and social justice organizations for over a decade. Weyam is Syrian and was politicized at a young age by parents who were exiled from Syria for dissent. Their background began in Arab community organizing and cultural production in the SF Bay Area. They co-created the Turning Towards Each Other Conflict Workbook with Jovida Ross and have spent the last four years translating it into a customizable curriculum for organizations and facilitating dozens of organizations through conflict processes and supporting them to build healthy, collaborative work cultures, including naming and defining their strategy, vision, and values. They are a coach & healing practitioner, which gives them a strong background in how to support people’s growth and learning. They are a Gemini and live on unceded Ohlone Lands where they love to sit in the sun next to a big stack of books they can't possibly get through.
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Shared Leadership & Distributed Power
Two 3-hour sessions
Wednesday & Friday November 12 & 14, 9:30-12:30 PT / 12:30-3:30 ET
Frequently asked questions
Yes! Participants will receive a recording of the facilitator-portions of the training, but it won’t include participant shares. The recording will be available for 30 days.
The workshop training fees are refundable up to 7 days before the workshop, minus eventbrite fees. You can also transfer your registration to a different participant (their name and email address must be shared at least 1 business day prior to the training).
If we need to cancel the training because of low enrollment, or unforeseen circumstances, such as the trainer becoming ill or a political or environmental crisis, then we will do our best to reschedule the training for a later date. If the new date doesn't work for you, we will refund you.
We know 3 hours is a long time to be on zoom, and we will make it as engaging and meaningful as possible! There will be lecture, small group discussion & individual reflection, with a break somewhere in the middle. All ways of participating are optional, take care of yourself & choose how you engage