Dealing with power
DEALING WITH POWER
Anti-oppression training and large-group work
An advanced training for trainers with George Lakey, Manchester, UK. 20-22 July 2012
Legendary US activist trainer George Lakey is making a rare visit to the UK, where he helped to train a generation of nonviolence trainers in 1970. As well as increasing the number of training and facilitation tools that participants can use effectively, George will be helping us to deal with diversity, power and privilege within training and large-group facilitation and decision-making. He will be helping participants examine how conflict develops in activist groups around issues of oppression (to do with race, age, class, disability, sexuality, gender or other forms of discrimination) and how to turn these conflicts into opportunities for liberatory steps. This is a unique opportunity to draw on 50 years of activism and training with one of the most experienced cross-cultural activist trainers in the world.
This training has been organised by Milan Rai, co-editor of Peace News, as part of George Lakey’s Peace News speaking tour of the UK, and supported by Rhizome. Peace News is seeking the greatest possible diversity of participants in the training, and people from the widest spectrum of radical social change activism and community organising.
If you would like to participate, please read the notes below, fill in the application form and submit it to editorial_AT_peacenews.info by 30 April 2012.
Selection
This training is aimed at people who are experienced activist trainers (nonviolence, direct action, facilitation, consensus decision-making and so on) or who have helped facilitate large-scale activist or radical community organising group processes (Climate Camp, Occupy, G8 and so on).
Participants are expected to be actively planning to engage in activist training or large-scale facilitation in the next two years. After you submit your application form, someone from the organising group will phone you to talk through some of the issues.
Costs
The charge for the weekend is £30-£70 on a sliding scale for income. Peace News does not want to exclude anyone on the grounds of cost, so please do contact us if the charge for the weekend, or the travel expenses involved are a barrier to participation: 020 7278 3344; 07980 748 555; editorial_AT_peacenews.info.
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July 29, 2012 @ 8:17 pm
[…] is the name of the game! I spent last weekend in Manchester at a training for trainers entitled ‘Dealing with Power’ led by George Lakey, renowned US trainer who’s on tour in the UK at present. Lakey’s […]
A Word to the Wise: The Power of the Trainer | rhizome
July 29, 2012 @ 8:17 pm
[…] is the name of the game! I spent last weekend in Manchester at a training for trainers entitled ‘Dealing with Power’ led by George Lakey, renowned US trainer who’s on tour in the UK at present. Lakey’s […]