Feminist Liberatory Facilitation in Community Organizing (For Coaches & Trainers)

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.