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Over the three days, we will explore:
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Over the 3 days, we will also explore:
The training will include space for participants to explore how to practically apply their learning to actual work situations |
Communities, businesses, community enterprises and organisations supporting huge social change are increasingly having to step up their game with less financial resources available, meanwhile many organisations are struggling to shift internal dynamics to cultivate spaces capable of devolving power.
To rise to this challenge we need to know how to work with complexity and diversity, how to truly listen to what is needed and harness the power of the collective voice in action. Now more than ever we need to foster an environment of collaboration across the sectors. 
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This training is for anyone interested in exploring and practising new ways of creating highly participatory environments to allow meaningful conversations to flourish.
It is for anyone who recognises the need to build power in communities and who seek to transform their organisational approach and build people's ability to self organise to bring about the change they seek through listening, collaboration, and harnessing the power of passion, personal transformation and collective intelligence. The brave and willing participants can take the opportunity to be coached to deliver some of the tools on day 2 & 3. This coaching will take place in the evening day 1 and 2 5:30-7 pm on the 23rd of October. We encourage participants to set the time aside to participate in the coaching and practice as this is often where the deepest learning really happens. |
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Do you have a venue which can sit 50 in a room comfortably in circle?
Would you like to partner up with us to host this event in your venue in London in exchange for free access to members of your team, board, volunteers or beneficiaries? GET IN TOUCH: info@communitycolab.co.uk |
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This workshop will allow you to:
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STANDARD+ PLEDGE:
£500 Select this reward if you are from an organisation/ consultancy and paid well to do your work. This reward covers the full cost of the training and a little bit more to support people who couldn't otherwise afford this opportunity to participate.
STANDARD PLEDGE
£350 Select this reward if you are from an organisation/ consultancy, paid to do your work or otherwise able to pay the full fee.
This reward covers full covers your own cost of participating Group Discount PLEDGE
£275 Select this reward if you are part of a team of 3 or more planning to attend from the same organisation.
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PAULETTE SINGER
Paulette is a Community Organiser, Art of Hosting Practitioner, Community Development research facilitator and Permaculture gardener/trainer. Her frustrations working across the homeless sector led to a desire to connect locally to her community and ultimately to her becoming a Community Organiser.
Paulette believes most systemic and structural issues can be overcome through the power of truly connected and resilient communities. Co-founder of Our Yard and Field to Fork workers co-operative Paulette has a keen interest in innovative social businesses and their role within communities to support individual and collective power. |
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TATIANA GARAVITOTatiana Garavito is an organiser and facilitator who uses direct education in her approach. She delivers training to groups in organising and movement building, movement ecology, power and privilege, facilitation skills and strategies as well as training tailored to specific groups' needs.
Tatiana is the co-director of Organising for change. She also writes for Open democracy and the New Internationalist on issues related to racial justice and the peace process in Colombia. |
JOSE AUGUSTO BARCOJose is Community Organiser, Art of Hosting Practitioner and trainer, as well as a social entrepreneur based in Bristol, and founder of Community CoLab. He is passionate about people power, social change and social justice and creating spaces for meaningful participation and collaboration at at organisational and grassroots level.
Over the last 7 years Jose has been organising and training people from diverse communities, his experience includes working with public and third sector organisations in Colombia, Spain and the UK. Jose is a Member Organiser for Community Organisers Ltd, organisation which he is a former founding director of. His work is influenced by his creative practice, musical roots and permaculture principles. |
JON DORSETTJon is a graphic facilitator/ practitioner and trainer in The Art of Hosting based in Leeds.
He is an associate of Together for Peace where he is facilitating the Poverty Truth Commission, and being a learning partner with local Gypsy and Traveller organisation Leeds GATE. Jon works across the country helping groups and organisations to harvest their learning, and making films for organisations to communicate complex information simply and engage audiences creatively. Jon's background is in campaigning for various NGOs, and in running programmes that create space for activists to reflect, learn and do inner work. He is continually interested in the dynamic between inner well-being and outer change, and sees a powerful potential in the combination of Art of Hosting and Community Organising practices. |
SARA BLOCHSara is a Community Organiser and facilitator. She believes in the power of networks within communities and the and desire for human connection to drive social change. She has been supporting young people and adults to make the change they want to see in their communities for the past six years.
She currently works at the Social Change Agency where she is developing a community cohesion model with a local community centre in response to gentrification in Clerkenwell, London. |
BETSY DILLNERBetsy has over 10 years of campaigning, fundraising and social change experience. She specialises in developing community leadership and understanding, developing, and ultimately challenging systems of power for social change.
She has directed successful user-led campaigns from small charities across the Atlantic that have resulted in bans on letting fees for tenants, the preservation of affordable housing and remuneration for victims of the foreclosure crisis. She won 2017 Campaigner of the Year from the Sheila McKechnie Foundation. She is an avid podcast listener and hiking and is a trustee of Generation Rent. |
PAULA REYBITZPaula has just under a decade of experience working in membership networks including multicultural and multinational settings with a Master’s Degree in International Business Management (cross-cultural studies). She specialises in engaging individuals, facilitating group connections, and cohesion. Specifically working with group dynamics, change management and connection as a universal unification of groups. She is also a 3rd year psychotherapist trainee which further supports the understanding and emotional support needed when working with passionate networks and group cohesion. Paula has six years work experience and a degree in event management allowing for skills in coordination, process, implementation, planning, logistics and budgeting. She is a strong believer in endeavouring to integrate relational perspectives to honour each person’s multiple and unique ways of being, experiencing, and relating. This supports her skills and experience to identify and work with a person or group’s developmental deficits, current relational struggles, cultural and societal impact, and spiritual issues as these emerge in relationship.
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KAREN LAMKaren is interested in innovative and people-centred approaches to addressing complex social issues, which has brought her to projects in Namibia, South Africa, India, and Romania. She is passionate about participatory and inclusive approaches to social change and the power of networks in effecting greater impact in social change.
Currently, Karen works at the Social Change Agency coordinating Losing Control, a peer-led network of over 500 practitioners from across sectors grappling with the opportunities and challenges this creates, who can support each other to implement ways of working that share power more equally, that are collaborative, grassroots-led and participatory. |
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Have any questions? Contact us: info@communitycolab.co.uk
+(44)07739195011 
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