The Transformative Power of Coaching

We know that community organisers are often working in environments fraught with complexity and challenges. Their work requires not only passion and dedication but also strategic thinking and resilience.

Through coaching rooted in peer to peer learning, we provide a space for organisers to reflect, gain new perspectives, and develop their leadership skills.

This interactive workshop, hosted by Stephanie Wong and Shingai Mushayabasa, shares best practices for coaching. You can expect to:

• Learn tools and frameworks to support you in coaching and leadership.
• Gain an understanding of foundational key concepts around coaching and leadership.
• Benefit from a dedicated space for cross-sectoral reflection, peer-peer support, coaching practice and relationship building.

Stephanie is a community organiser, facilitator and collective care practitioner. She has won with many others on issues from citizenship for young people, securing better wages for 1000s of staff and winning housing for those seeking asylum. She has trained hundreds of community leaders who have gone on to win local and national policy change and political elections. She is has taught at Stanford, Harvard, UCL and LSE University. She built Act Build Change with her husband Ricky in 2018 in response to some of the inaccessible ways organising was taught in the UK. Together, they hoped to give a contribution to the field of organising that would allow more of us to get great organising training in accessible, dignified and transformative ways.

Shingai is a community organiser, international coach and facilitator with a proven record of organising and training community leaders. Shingai has helped spearhead campaigns on a issues like housing rights, migrant rights, climate justice, human rights and UK electoral campaigns. She has coached organising workshops delivered by Harvard Professor Marshall Ganz and worked with partners like the Labour Party, Amnesty, Friends of the Earth, the NUS, Trussell Trust and POMOC.

Cost:

• Free for paying Act Build Change members – just email info@actbuildchange.com to request your free ticket.
• Non-members: £15 – if you’re not a paying member yet but would like to become one, you can register on our membership page.

To avoid technical difficulties accessing the webinar, please ensure that you register for the event with the same email address as is attached to the Zoom account you will use to access the session.

Is there anything we need to know to support you to be able to participate well in this online session? This includes but is not limited to language, comfort, access (physical, emotional, technological).

Please get in touch and we will do our best to support.