Does your organisation want to build strong movements and organise at scale, so we can “shift the rock” and win on our issues?
Building powerful movements requires us to organise at scale through distributed leadership and action. To achieve this, we need to train others across our movements, building their skills to implement strategy, organise in local communities and step into leadership roles.
Over the past two years, we’ve had conversations with lead organisers from across the sector, with many identifying this critical gap, and highlighting growth of our movements as a key ingredient to success.
In response, we’re thrilled to launch a new three-day training designed for trainers to improve the collective capacity of the progressive sector in training and facilitation. The Training of Trainers Workshop will be a highly interactive and practical in-person training (Naarm / Melbourne) and online that will focus on the approaches, skills and frameworks for designing and delivering training to others across the movement.
If you are a campaigner, organiser or senior lead volunteer who trains staff, community members and activists to build movements for change, then this training is designed for you!
Applications have closed. All applications from 27 February will be waitlisted.
learning OUTCOMES AND SKILLS
Together, we will explore the following topics:
Learn how people learn: reflect on what supports and detracts adults from learning and developing new skills in a training setting
Building a container: lean how to create a safe and effective environment for learning, how to navigate power and privilege dynamics and support relationship building between participants
Workshop design principles: explore concepts and templates to design participatory and experiential training models
Training facilitation: explore how different styles of facilitation can promote participation and learning, practice using facilitation microskills
Practice: participants will practise designing and facilitating their own mini-training, and strengthen their reflective practice by debriefing their experiences
After completing this masterclass, participants will be able to:
Understand basic concepts of popular adult education and how adults learn
Design their own training workshops
Facilitate spaces to enable the participation and learning of others
Debrief and reflect on their own training and facilitation skills
Dates
Online session: Thu 14 March - 2:00pm to 4:00pm AEDT
In-person session: Mon 18 March - 10:00am to 5:00pm AEDT
In-person session: Tue 19 March - 9:00am to 5:00pm AEDT
In-person session: Wed 20 March - 9:00am to 3:00pm AEDT
Online session: Tue 26 March - 2:00pm to 4:00pm AEDT
Online session: Wed 1 May - 2:00pm to 4:00pm AEST
location
The in-person component of this training will be held in Naarm (Melbourne), with online sessions delivered via Zoom.
COST
Cost for participation in the training is based on your organisation type and revenue:
$1,500+GST: Small Non-Profit | Individuals - For non-profits with an annual revenue in Australia of less than $500,000, as well as individuals not affiliated with an organisation.
$2,000+GST: Regular Non-Profit | Political Offices - For non-profits with an annual revenue in Australia between $500,000 and $3 million, as well as staff from political offices.
$2,500+GST: Large Non-Profit - For non-profits with an annual revenue in Australia of over $3 million and local/state government offices.
$3,000+GST: Full Price - For government, social enterprises, b-corps and businesses servicing the non-profit sector.
A limited number of partial scholarships are available at $600+GST and full scholarships are available at no cost to First Nations people, people with disability, people of colour as well as refugees and people seeking asylum. To apply for a scholarship, please complete an application here.
training team
We are putting together a team of trainers that will include a range of guest trainers. The training will be developed and delivered with contributions from the following:
Anita Tang
Organising Director, Australian Progress
Anita is an advocacy advisor and campaign coach, and one of Australia’s most respected public health campaigners. She spent 12 years at Cancer Council NSW as Manager, Policy & Advocacy and Director of Health Strategies. She has played a leading role in securing federal and state support for tobacco control, cancer screening, and cancer survivors. She was awarded a Fellowship for the Stanford University Executive Program for Non-profit Leaders. Since 2015, Anita has been working with a range of NGO's advising on campaign strategy and community organising, along with leading the Progress Fellowship program.
Kelly Albion
Fossil Fuels Campaign Director, 350.org
Kelly has been a climate activist since they were in high school, and joined 350.org in November 2019 with a fire in their belly to take on the fossil fuel lobby. Kelly manages the Fossil Free campaigns team and supports the Organising Team to inspire hundreds of new activists. Previously they were building a generation-wide movement to solve the climate crisis at the Australian Youth Climate Coalition in various roles including campaigns, communications, schools program coordination and supporting the work of Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network. Kelly enjoys dancing, hiking and taking on the bad guys.
Cat Nadel
Campaign Consultant and Co-founder, Tomorrow Movement
Cat is an experienced campaigner and organiser. Cat is a co-founder and was National Director of Tomorrow Movement, a movement of young people fighting to end the influence of big business on our politics so that we can win a tomorrow with good jobs, great public services and a safe climate for all. Cat got their first taste of community organising as a student leader in the successful campaign to get Monash University to divest $450 million from coal. They spent four years as a climate campaigner at Environment Victoria where they worked with communities in the Latrobe Valley, Westernport Bay and suburban Melbourne to build power for stronger climate policies and a just transition.
Victor Komarovsky
Senior Community Organiser, Environment Victoria
Victor is a senior community organiser at Environment Victoria and has previously held organising roles at Generation Zero, The Greens and Greenpeace Australia Pacific. He is passionate about helping new people join the movement for climate justice, and the pivotal role that experiential training and coaching plays in bringing people in.
access information
We will work with you to ensure that you can fully participate in the workshop. Successful applicants will be asked for your access requirements during the on-boarding process.
More access information will be provided when the in-person venue is confirmed.
If you have any access questions in the meantime, please contact Erica at erica@australianprogress.org.au.