Introduction to Transformative Community Organising

This interactive workshop is for new, curious and established organisers. Perhaps this is the first time something in your community has made you angry and hopeful enough to take action. Or perhaps you have been organising for a long time and want to get back to the fundamentals. Either way this session will help to deepen your organising and care practice.

Community organising is a power building methodology centred on developing leaders who can create the resources needed to make the changes they want to see. When we organise alongside a practice of collective care we call this Transformative Organising.

In this workshop you will:

• Learn what community organising is.
• Learn what collective care is in the context of community organising.
• Learn about the role of an organiser.
• Learn what power means in organising.

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.

Cost

• Free for Full Members (those with a paid membership) – email info@actbuildchange.com to request your free ticket.
• £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.