Does your organisation want to build strong movements and organise at scale, so we can “shift the rock” and win on our issues?
Building powerful movements requires us to organise at scale through distributed leadership and action. To achieve this, we need to train others across our movements, building their skills to implement strategy, organise in local communities and step into leadership roles.
By popular demand, we are running the next Training of Trainers Workshop on 9-11 October to improve the collective capacity of the progressive sector in training and facilitation. The workshop will be highly interactive and practical in-person training and online that will focus on the approaches, skills and frameworks for designing and delivering training to others across the movement.
If you are a campaigner, organiser or senior lead volunteer who trains staff, community members and activists to build movements for change, then this training is designed for you!
learning OUTCOMES AND SKILLS
Together, we will explore the following topics:
Learn how people learn — reflect on what supports and detracts adults from learning and developing new skills in a training setting
Building a container — lean how to create a safe and effective environment for learning, how to navigate power and privilege dynamics and support relationship building between participants
Workshop design principles — explore concepts and templates to design participatory and experiential training models
Training facilitation — explore how different styles of facilitation can promote participation and learning, practice using facilitation microskills
Practice — participants will practise designing and facilitating their own mini-training, and strengthen their reflective practice by debriefing their experiences
After completing this masterclass, participants will be able to:
Understand basic concepts of popular adult education and how adults learn
Design their own training workshops
Facilitate spaces to enable the participation and learning of others
Debrief and reflect on their own training and facilitation skills
KEY DATES
The workshop will be delivered in-person over three days with three online sessions before and after to enable participants to make the most out of the training:
Pre-Training Online Session: Thursday, 3 October - 2:00pm to 4:00pm AEDT
In-Person Session: Wednesday, 9 October - 10:00am to 5:00pm AEDT
In-Person Session: Thursday, 10 October - 9:00am to 5:00pm AEDT
In-Person Session: Friday, 11 October - 9:00am to 3:00pm AEDT
Post-Training Online Session: Thursday, 17 October - 2:00pm to 4:00pm AEDT
Post-Training Online Session: Thursday, 14 November - 2:00pm to 4:00pm AEST
location
The in-person component of this training will be held in Naarm (Melbourne), with online sessions delivered via Zoom.
COST
Cost for participation in the training is based on your organisation type and revenue:
$1,500+GST: Small Non-Profit | Individuals - For non-profits with an annual revenue in Australia of less than $500,000, as well as individuals not affiliated with an organisation.
$2,000+GST: Regular Non-Profit | Political Offices - For non-profits with an annual revenue in Australia between $500,000 and $3 million, as well as staff from political offices.
$2,500+GST: Large Non-Profit - For non-profits with an annual revenue in Australia of over $3 million and local/state government offices.
$3,000+GST: Full Price - For government, social enterprises, b-corps and businesses servicing the non-profit sector.
A limited number of partial scholarships are available at $600+GST and full scholarships are available at no cost to First Nations people, people with disability, people of colour as well as refugees and people seeking asylum. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please indicate this in your application.
training team
We are putting together a team of trainers that will include a range of guest trainers. The training will be developed and delivered with contributions from the following:
Anita Tang
Organising Director, Australian Progress
Anita Tang is passionate about building people power to secure public policies that benefit the community. During her career, she’s explored many ways to make a difference – through direct service, policy development, consumer protection bodies, and Parliamentary Committees, and non-government policy advocacy. During her 12 years at Cancer Council NSW, she led the development of the grassroots advocacy approach that led to significant campaign wins on smoke-free legislation, cost of chemotherapy, access to treatment, and policies to protect people from known cancer risks. Currently, Anita is focused on increasing the impact of the advocacy work of NGOs by helping them unlock the potential of their grassroots supporters.
Kelly Albion
Fossil Fuels Campaign Director, 350.org
Kelly has been a climate activist since they were in high school, and joined 350.org in November 2019 with a fire in their belly to take on the fossil fuel lobby. Kelly manages the Fossil Free campaigns team and supports the Organising Team to inspire hundreds of new activists. Previously they were building a generation-wide movement to solve the climate crisis at the Australian Youth Climate Coalition in various roles including campaigns, communications, schools program coordination and supporting the work of Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network. Kelly enjoys dancing, hiking and taking on the bad guys.
Victor Komarovsky
Senior Community Organiser, Environment Victoria
Victor is a senior community organiser at Environment Victoria and has previously held organising roles at Generation Zero, The Greens and Greenpeace Australia Pacific. He is passionate about helping new people join the movement for climate justice, and the pivotal role that experiential training and coaching plays in bringing people in.
TESTIMONIALS
Here’s what participants from the first Training of Trainers Workshop had to say about their experience:
“[The Training of Trainers Workshop] was a life changing experience for me connecting with so many wonderful people and being pushed outside my comfort zone but in a safe and accessible way.”
“This was the best training I've ever done - I've learned so much and have had the opportunity to test the theory during the training which was awesome. I felt like I was able to really dive in.”
“This was a brilliant training, very meta, and very responsive and nimble in real time to participant feedback. I'd highly recommend this to anyone interested in learning how to be a better trainer, and would love to see more of these for others in the sector in the future.”
“This training has had a huge impact on my capacity to deliver trainings myself. I've only had internal staff training experience prior to undertaking this course, and I feel confident that I could develop and deliver a short training myself now after this, which I definitely didn't feel capable of before!”
“I had a goal to audit myself as a trainer and this really helped me see what my weaknesses, strengths and knowledge gaps were! It's also re-ignited my excitement for training and designing learning journeys and deepening connection.”
“This training has had a dual impact for me. It’s given me the practical tools to be able to facilitate trainings confidently, but it’s also left an emotional imprint on me; a felt sense of connection that will be invaluable in how I relate to people broadly but specifically, how I design trainings and facilitate in the future”
ACCESSIBILITY
We will work with you to ensure that you can fully participate in the workshop. If you are a successful applicant, we will ask you for any access needs during the on-boarding process.
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Covid safety - To reduce the spread of Covid, we will provide N95 masks, RATs and hand sanitiser. All trainers, coaches and staff will undertake rapid tests before the training. If you are sick or unwell, we encourage you to stay home.
Wheelchair accessibility - The training venue will be accessible via a ramp, and the training space is held on one floor of the building.
Accessible bathrooms - Accessible, gender-neutral bathrooms are available next to the training space.
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Zoom - During the online sessions, we will be meeting via Zoom. If you have access to a computer or laptop, we recommend you join the training by computer to make navigating the materials easier. See here for accessibility documentation for Zoom; including a list of keyboard shortcuts here.
Video norms - During the online sessions, we will encourage everyone to have your cameras on if you feel comfortable, but we will not require you to do so.
Chat - On Zoom you will be able to use the chat function. Participants will be asked to introduce themselves in chat, and to enter responses in the chat.
Captions - We will have auto captions enabled in Zoom.
Google Docs and Digital Documents - We will be sharing training materials over Google Drive, Google Docs and Google Slides. All documents, forms, and surveys will be provided in accessible formats. During the pre-training we will use the screen share function to share slides, as well as navigating between Zoom and an interactive slide deck.
Mentimeter - We will be using Mentimeter, an interactive live-polling and survey platform. You will be asked to participate either by desktop or via QR code on your phone.
Early access to slides - A view-only version of the slide deck can be supplied early if this supports your participation. Any copies of the slides provided will include alt-text / image descriptions.
Pre-training materials - We will provide a selection of pre-training materials for you to read ahead of the workshop. They will be provided in different formats including Google Docs, PDF and various websites.
Post-training resources - We do not supply recordings from our online training as standard, but can record sections of the workshop if needed to facilitate your engagement. You will receive a copy of the presenter slide deck, interactive slide deck, and other resources. Where video or audio content is included during the training or in any of the resources, we will provide audio descriptions, captions or transcripts as needed.
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Setting norms - As a cohort, we will also set expectations at the start of the training to ensure everyone can comfortably participate in the workshop.
Breaks - Breaks will be organised regularly throughout the training including meal breaks. Morning and afternoon tea breaks will be 30 minutes, and lunch will be an hour.
Breakout rooms - This training regularly uses breakout rooms, with group sizes ranging from pairs, through to groups of 5-10 for discussions and workshop activities.
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Guest speakers - Any guest speakers and trainers will be notified about any access needs ahead of time, and we will do our best to ensure that speakers are briefed to ensure their presentations are accessible.
Auslan interpretation - If you need Auslan interpreters, please let us know when completing the participant information form. Depending on interpreter availability, and whether you have preferred interpreters, we will work with you to organise interpreters. Because of the high demand for interpreters nationally, we can’t guarantee that interpreters will be arranged at short-notice.
Other additional support - In your participant info form, we will ask you for your access needs. If you require something in place that is not already arranged, or if you need more information about any part of the workshop, we will work with you to provide this.
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If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact Community Manager Erica at erica@australianprogress.org.au.