Principles for Taking Action on Racial Justice
Change is possible. Food is a way to bring people together to make it happen.
Facilitating for Equity
Food Council 101: Nuts & Bolts webinar
Are you interested in forming a food council or new to an existing council? Join this interactive webinar to learn about the purpose of food councils and the strategy behind forming one.
Facilitation Workshop: Active Agenda Building and Review of the Essentials
In the last session in this series, we will highlight our ‘Staff Picks’ for key, simple facilitation essentials and dive deeper into creating effective agendas, even on the fly. We hope you join us!
Facilitation Workshop #4: Decision Making through Open, Narrow, Close
In this Facilitating Virtually session, we’ll describe and practice a decision-making technique called Open, Narrow, Close. – a narrowing process to get to a few great ideas. We’ll also review the value of shared leadership and roles.
Facilitation Workshop #5: Virtual Dialogue & Decision Making
In this Facilitating Virtually session, participants will gain skills for encouraging dialogue and leading groups through a facilitation technique called ORID (Objective, Reflective, Interpretive, Decisional) Process that focuses on a conversation. We’ll also practice Open, Narrow, Close again in small groups.
Facilitation Workshop #3: Leadership & Facilitating Humans
In this Facilitating Virtually session, we’ll help you understand your leadership style and how it impacts group dynamics. We’ll model tools to help facilitate more effectively through everyday disruptions and difficult personalities.
Facilitation Workshop #2: Using Agendas for Action
In this Facilitating Virtually session, participants will gain tools for building agendas that support productive meetings, gain a shared understanding of the importance of each point on the Facilitation Triangle, increase their confidence in facilitation skills and zoom tools.
Video: Facilitating Virtually #1 – a series to learn best practices for facilitating online meetings
We’re offering a series of workshop to shares tips for participant engagement and effective online meetings. In this first workshop we’ll share tips for navigating Zoom and other virtual platforms, as well as techniques for engagement participants and effective meetings.
Facilitating Virtually workshop series
We are offering an online series of Facilitating for More Voices workshops. Every other week on Thursdays, 12:30 – 2:00pm, from March 26th to May 28th.
Five Food Council Members Voices
Hear what they’ve learned and what drives them to stay involved.