Events
Is your organisation agile?
We’ve mentioned Holacracy a few times of late and explored how it relates to formal consensus decision-making because Rhizome’s Nick Osborne has been exploring it in-depth. He’s now offering a series of one day introductions to Holacracy through Agile Organisation.Over the next 18 months workshops will take place around the UK and Ireland in such […]
Sustaining Resistance, 2013
Tools for Effective-Sustainable Activism,12-20 October 2013, Catalan Pyrenees !! Deadline to apply for fully funded places, including travel: 20 April 2013 !! This residential training, hosted in a wild part of the Catalan Pyrenees, offers personal and collective tools to make our activism more effective. Sustaining Resistance helps us: stay in it for the long […]
Funding from the edge to the edge
We’ve mentioned the Edge Fund before. Time to mention them again as their second funding round has just opened and decisions will very soon be taken as to who gets what from their first round – in fact the decision will be taken on Saturday. So who are the Edge Fund and what do they […]
Facilitating Change: Supporting Effective & Sustainable Action Groups
Facilitating Change: Supporting Effective and Sustainable Action Groups A 7 day residential workshop in rural Wales, 15th-22nd March 2013. Effective group-work and high quality decision-making. That’s what we all long for, right? Yet bad process is rife in our grassroots action groups and can lead to a lack of trust and respect, frustration, resentment, burnout […]
Aspects of autism and neurodiversity
Regular readers of this blog may remember a couple of posts we wrote on autism and social change. Here’s a chance to find out more: Aspects of autism and neurodiversity: a brief introduction for social change groups Saturday 22nd September 7.30pm – 8.30pm Old Music Hall 106-108 Cowley Road Oxford Do you want your group […]
Biofuelwatch and Friends of the Earth event – London
Biofuelwatch and Friends of the Earth are pleased to invite you to a FREE half day event: Forests are Not Fuel: The Limits of Bioenergy in Climate MitigationTuesday 9th October, 9.00am – 1pm Quakers at Westminster, Friends Meeting House, London A morning workshop with keynote speakers and group discussions to learn about and explore the environmental and […]
Grassroots Campaigning Skills for Activists Conference
Unlock Democracy and the Electoral Reform Society are hosting a Democracy Grassroots Conference for activists from all over the UK to share their ideas, thoughts and skills on effective local campaigning. Grassroots Campaigning Skills for Activists Saturday 20th October 2012 – 10.30am to 5pm Birmingham Voluntary Service Council (BVSC) Building -138 Digbeth, Birmingham They are […]
festival of co-operation
“Co-operatives United is an inspiring global festival of events and exhibitions set in Manchester, UK, to mark the close of the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives. With 1 world premiere, 3 exhibitions, 10 conferences, 45 countries, 150 workshops, 200 exhibitors and 10,000 people, Co-operatives United will inform and inspire everyone building an ethical economy […]
Sustaining Resistance, Empowering Renewal
Tools for Effective Sustainable Activism 9 day workshop in the Catalan Pyrenees 10th to 18th November 2012 This workshop, hosted in a wild part of the Catalan Pyrenees, offers personal and collective tools to make our activism more effective. They can help us stay in it for the long haul, creating personal sustainability and adding […]