Building Strong Leadership Teams

Effective leadership teams are the foundation of community organising. They bring together uniquely talented individuals, organising around shared values to build power and drive change.

In this workshop you will:

• Explore how strong teams enable bold action to win on issues.
• Learn how to build teams that develop leadership, centre care, and embed accountability.
• Find out why interdependent team structures are at the core of effective organising.

This workshop will be interactive, there will be breakout rooms in pairs and small groups where all participants will be expected to engage.

Meet the facilitators

Ariel Lew Ai Le Whitson has over a decade of experience as a community organiser focused on social justice issues, primarily with environmental and land justice. Before joining Act Build Change, she was the Senior Director of Community Organising and Education at TreePeople, a leading Los Angeles-based NGO, where she led a team of 40 organisers and educators supporting communities impacted by climate change and environmental injustice. Prior to TreePeople, she ran major advocacy campaigns at Ten Strands, securing significant legislative and funding victories for climate literacy. Ariel is passionate about healing the violent separation of land and people through organising.

Son Olszewski is a Community Organiser at Act Build Change. He brings years of experience working with migrant, racialised, queer and working class communities, having organised with Migrants Organise, ACORN, POMOC as well as local groups of friends and neighbours.

Cost

• Free for Full Members (those with a paid membership) using the discount code below.
• £15 for everyone else.

If you would like to become a Full Member (and get access to lots of other great events, trainings and more), visit our membership page to get started.

Access

This event will be held online using Zoom. The link will be shared with registered attendees before the start of the event.

To avoid difficulties accessing the workshop, please ensure that you register for the event with the same email address that you intend to use on Zoom.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your participation in this session. This includes, but is not limited to, language, comfort, and access (physical, emotional, technological) needs