Learning Experiences I am Offering:
Virtual Facilitation Lab
Dates: Next dates TBD
Includes o
ptional networking session following the lab on all three days.
Cost: $540 with payment plans options available
Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, many of us have adapted rapidly, and shifted our in person meetings, training, conferences, classes, conferences and gatherings online.
It is becoming clear that online work and meetings may be a big part of our reality moving forward. This will require many of us to stretch, grow and up our facilitation game in virtual spaces. We can do this.
We are grateful that we didn’t have to start from scratch when the pandemic hit. Remote work required us to experiment with and practice online facilitation for several years prior to COVID. We tested many approaches, made a lot of mistakes, and learned A LOT about how to translate our combined 40 years of experience with in-person facilitation into virtual settings.
We are excited to offer a learning lab where facilitators can share best practices, experiments, and challenges in designing and facilitating meaningful, connective, participatory and inclusive online spaces.
The Virtual Facilitation Learning Lab will center on three key elements:
“Being ourselves” in virtual space: learning to translate our presence and the “facilitation super powers” we bring as in-person facilitators online.
Creating virtual learning, meeting and team building spaces that are deeply engaging, personal and participatory.
Addressing power dynamics, equity and inclusion in our design and facilitation of online spaces.
About the Facilitators:
If you have any questions, contact corita@coritabrown.com
Learning community for white affinity group facilitators
Workshop Description
For white people to take part in racial equity and justice work in a way that’s useful rather than destructive or distracting, we have a lot of work to do. Increasingly, many organizations and groups are beginning to address this in part through white caucus or affinity groups. The goal of these groups is to make focused time for “white work,” related to racial justice and racial equity efforts. This is the work of learning, healing and action that it’s important for white people to do separately from Black, Indigenous and other People of Color (BIPOC).
Although anyone is welcome to participate, this workshop is designed for those who have raised their hand to facilitate white affinity groups in organizations and communities. The trainings will provide support on embedding best practices into planning and facilitation, and an opportunity to connect with a peer network of white affinity group facilitators.
About the Facilitators:
Anne Tomkinson, MSM, SHRM-SCP, is a certified coach with over 15 years in People Operations with a focus on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism. Her work includes transforming organizational culture, leadership coaching, public speaking, and designing, implementing and facilitating learning for organizations, boards and leadership teams to bring an equity lens to systems and processes. Anne believes that when individuals experience liberation, organizations flourish.
Next workshop dates TBD
Cost: $400 with sliding scale options available
75% of proceeds will be donated to the Movement for Black Lives
You can find more about Anne at https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-tomkinson/.