As facilitators, we may rely on formal and structured approaches to guide groups to reach their goals and stay on track with clarity and focus.

But to facilitate spaces rooted in justice and liberation is to navigate complexity around power and its manifestations within our community with care and presence.

Join us on February 11th @ 10am Eastern Time / 4pm Central European Time for a session on Feminist Liberatory Facilitation, a practice rooted in understanding systemic power and creating space grounded in participation, dialogue, and collective agency. Together, we will explore the practice and concepts of feminist facilitation for conducive and healthy conversations, and explore practical ways to incorporate feminist liberatory approaches in our practice as coaches and facilitators of community organizing.

This participatory learning workshop is intended for people with experience and background in facilitation and training. It will build on learnings from the Justice in Practice Series and draw on our own experience as facilitators and coaches.

The session is facilitated by Hoda Barakat from the Kabcoop feminist facilitation cooperative, organizational learning expert, and community organizing and trainer.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn core facilitation process and feminist facilitation practice
• Practice assessing a facilitation practice from a feminist liberatory lens and critique it;
• Explore ways to adapt community organizing facilitation to a liberatory lens.

Hoda is a feminist facilitator and organizational learning expert with 17 years of experience in justice-anchored programming, organizing, and education in SWANA and beyond. Hoda has worked extensively with local and international civil society organizations on rights-based issues towards social justice, feminist practice, and grassroots organizing. A founding worker-owner of Kabcoop Feminist Facilitation Cooperative, Hoda has facilitated international convenings and organizational processes and has found joy and growth in community facilitation with local grassroots groups and initiatives. Hoda enjoys reading, especially comic books, and nature walks, and would dance – badly – to any music.

Kabcoop [from Arabic, /kæb koob/ “ball of yarn”] is a cooperative of five feminist facilitators founded in 2019. Their core theory of change is that stronger and kinder facilitation approaches contribute to healthier social movements. Kabcoop supports groups and organizations in setting up and organizing productive and healthy processes and meetings through long-term accompaniment and shorter-term facilitation. Core to their principles as feminist facilitators is holding safe spaces for groups to bring personal and political experiences into an environment of solidarity and compassion.

Kabcoop functions as a horizontal collective and self-sustained cooperative. To do so, they charge a sliding daily rate depending on the organization’s resources and gather a share of the group’s revenues into a collective pot that allows them to support new, emerging, and informal grassroots initiatives.

For more information about this event please contact Sachiko Osawa