In a year where half the world population votes, the Leading Change Academy 2024 community organizing Workshop is pivotal! With global crises escalating, leadership and moral organizing are imperative. This workshop, developed by Marshall Ganz & LCN practitioners, equips leaders to navigate complexities, fostering resilience and empathy. As the world stands at a critical juncture, this workshop empowers individuals to be catalysts for positive change amid pressing challenges.

Whether you’re a member of a civic association, union, advocacy group, social movement, Nonprofit and NGO executives or a grassroots community leader, this comprehensive Community Organizing workshop is designed for you & your team!

This workshop aims to provide a quick dive & understanding of how to build collective agency & people power to scale campaigns and institutions. You will learn the five leadership practices of:

1. Public narrative & Storytelling: Learn to develop and share your story of Self, Us & Now. Public narrative can be a way to access the emotional resources required: mobilizing hope over fear, empathy over alienation, and self-worth over self-doubt.
2. Building relationships: Practice building values-based one-on-one relationships! Organizers build relationships among members of a constituency to create commitment to a shared purpose.
3. Structuring leadership teams: Learn to strategically structure your leadership team representing the community to carry out the organizing campaign. Practice launching your team by developing shared purpose, norms & team identity.
4. Strategizing: Strategy is turning what we have into what we need in order to get what we want. Learn to analyze your community power dynamics, resources, map the actors, get tactically imaginative & create campaign charts to achieve campaign’s strategic goal.
5. Action: Action requires mobilizing others to commit time, money, energy, and often, courage to achieve your strategy. Learn how to design action that generates the motivation for more action and practice how to ask for a commitment!

We additionally also offer a module on Coaching that enables teams to enable the agency of leaders to find resources and solutions to challenges of the head, heart and hands.

This’s intensively hands-on practice workshop! Participants are guided by a skilled Community Organizing coach in a 6:1 participant:coach ratio teams in breakout rooms during the workshop to get real-time feedback on their organizing skills. The learning is authentic because participants work with a real organizing project – one of their own, or from the organizations they work with. One testimony to the efficacy of this experience is that a number of alumni of the Organizing workshops and past participants have turned their projects from these workshops into real campaigns and organizations all across the world.

This workshop will be running on 4 full training days from 10 AM to 4 PM ET online on Zoom.

• Day 1| Intro to organizing, Public Narrative & Story of Self: Saturday, April 20, 2024
• Day 2| Building Relationships, Leadership teams & Strategy pt.1:  Sunday, April 21, 2024
• Day 3| Story of us, Strategy pt.2 & Structure: Saturday, April 27, 2024
• Day 4| Action, Story of now, Celebration:  Sunday, April 28, 2024

Commitment to fully attending ALL of these sessions is required to be considered as a candidate for this program

Stay tuned to learn more about the rest of the trainers & coaches team! 

Application Deadline: April 1, 2024. We will get back to you by April 8, 2024

Contribution: 

Kindly consider that the workshop fees are subsidized, 3 main options are available:

1. My organization will sponsor the full tuition cost of $1200
2. I can contribute the individual tuition cost of $1000
3. I would like to apply for a 50% scholarship and pay $600

Very limited highly competitive subsidized seats available with priority to member organizations in underserved regions.

Please note that selection priority will be given to teams application (5 or 6 participants applying as a team)

Membership:

This workshop is only available to LCN members, if you are not a member & wish to join this workshop we offer 50% discount on the different membership options exclusively for this workshop. you can find it here.

We encourage you to apply today and share any additional information or requests we should keep in mind as we go through your application.