Develop Leaders through Coaching – Community Organising Foundations

Good coaching doesn't create dependence – it builds people's capacity to lead themselves and others. This training explores what effective coaching looks like in organising, where the goal isn't just personal development but collective power-building. 

Through practical exercises and proven frameworks, you'll learn to diagnose different types of challenges your team faces, practice a five-step coaching process, and develop powerful questions that help people find their own answers. You'll explore what makes a good coach versus a bad one, and get hands-on practice coaching real scenarios with fellow participants.

Outcomes:

• Understand effective coaching in the context of organising.
• Practise frameworks for coaching organisers and leaders.
• Reflect on how you can apply these principles to your own work.

This training is part of our foundations series, designed for both new and experienced organisers who are ready to develop practical organising skills. We recommend taking the introduction training first to understand the core concepts of transformative community organising.

Meet the facilitators

Imani Clough-Brown has over a decade of experience in youth justice and education. She has successfully led leadership development programmes, supporting change makers - including young leaders - to take action on issues they care about. She is an experienced youth and community practitioner with skills in coaching, leadership development and strategic partnerships.

Kennedy Walker is a trainer, coach and facilitator. They’ve helped individuals, groups and organisations move through conflict, build power, cultivate knowledge and strengthen skills for over ten years. They’ve trained with the Gestalt Centre in London, Navigate, Action Learning Associates and more in counselling skills, trauma informed facilitation, coaching, and mediation. They've co-founded organisations such as Kinfolk Network in 2017 and others that aim to strengthen collective care, learning and power. Kennedy holds a master's degree in Human Rights, Culture and Social Justice and is currently a trainee counsellor.

Ariel 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.

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 get in touch 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.