Edge Fund have sent out the appeal below. We facilitated their meetings when they were setting up, and have kept up with the valuable work they have funded ever since, so please take a look and consider if you can help. We need to ask for your help! Our annual income has fallen from over […]
Another event that looks good that you, our dear readers, might be interested in. Based in part on interesting theoretical bases about organsing and power that have come over from the USA. Training offered by Organising for Change. Training is 16 – 18th March 2017 at Friends House, 173 – 177 Euston Road, London NW1 […]
Get their take on what makes a great workshop: our Grassroots Trainers’ Network colleagues at Tripod are organising a useful workshop in Edinburgh. Contact us if you’d like a similar workshop run by us and tailored for your needs where you are based. We would bring our extensive experience to bear, designing workshop packages on […]
Rhizome tip: there’ll be ace organisers there for you to meet, and you might end up singing! NEON’s Movement Builders programme is a 5 day intensive training course for people working towards big systemic change. Half theory, half practical tools, this five day course puts you in a room with 30 organisers across your region […]
Tripod Training, a fellow training co-op, and also part of the UK Grassroots Trainers’ Network, are running a two-day workshop that looks good. Here are the details. Running Great Workshops Friday 8th and Saturday 9th December 2017, Edinburgh Training and facilitation skills are key to successful organising, campaigning and movement building. This 2-day […]
What looks to be a useful workshop organised by our colleagues in Navigate, also part of the UK Grassroots Trainers’ Network, even if you didn’t go to the taster: Day workshop – Sat 25th November 2017, 11am – 4pm Fully accessible venue in central Oxford Being involved in campaigns and taking action on issues of […]
There’s an interesting workshop coming up on 23rd September, for any fans of decentralised organising, and different ways of organising ourselves in organisations. All the details are below. Rich and Nati have been supporting non-hierarchical organisations for more than five years, co-founding Loomio (a worker co-op building software for collective decision-making) and Enspiral (a network […]
If you read our last blog post, you’ll know that this is the last of a short series of three blogs to remind you of the introductory guides in our resources section. This one is on groups. The aspect of the guide that I want to develop here is active listening. I’ve always found that […]
If you read our last post, you’ll know that this is the second of a short series of three blogs to introduce and share our free guides in our resources section. This one is on diversity. Our second aim is to remind you also that our blog posts and the rest of this site amplify […]
Our facilitation draws on many different models and approaches, so to mark the occasion of Rhizome’s new website, I decided to unearth useful advice and questions, to remind ourselves and for you, dear readers. I went back and re-read the blogs from 2010, the first year of our existence. I was quite impressed! There was […]
