Facilitating for Healing and Justice

July 15 & 16 | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM ET

Attendance is required on both days to complete the training.

Learn to facilitate spaces where groups make decisions together, build collective power, and create real change. This intensive two-day training builds essential facilitation skills for community organizers, nonprofit leaders, educators, and movement builders working across difference and power.

You'll learn to create brave, accountable spaces where communities process conflict, navigate complex power dynamics, and co-create solutions grounded in collective wisdom. Drawing on circle processes as a foundation, you'll develop facilitation approaches that translate to any context: contentious community meetings, organizational change processes, cross-sector coalitions, virtual convenings, and healing spaces after trauma or harm. You'll learn to notice who's speaking and who isn't in the groups you facilitate. You'll practice skills for when dynamics become challenging—managing defensiveness, navigating conflict, creating space for difficult conversations, and knowing when and how to intervene.

During this training, you'll examine your own identity and positionality as a facilitator and practice intervening when harm occurs. You'll learn to facilitate with awareness of how race, gender, class, and other forms of oppression shape group dynamics. And you'll spend significant time practicing with realistic, challenging scenarios that mirror dynamics you’ll encounter in your work. Leave with concrete skills, practical frameworks, and the confidence to hold space for what's hard, and the conversations communities need but struggle to have well.

What You'll Learn

During this training, participants will learn how to:

• Facilitate with awareness of power—tracking who speaks, who doesn't, and why, across race, gender, role, and other forms of difference
• Intervene skillfully when harm occurs, including responding to racist comments, managing defensiveness, and addressing power imbalances
• Use active listening techniques that de-escalate conflict and build understanding across difference
• Design powerful questions that move groups from surface sharing to transformative depth
• Make strategic decisions about when and how to caucus across identity or power differences
• Navigate challenging facilitation moments with clarity and care—holding both accountability and relationship
• Examine your own identity and positionality as a facilitator, understanding how you're perceived and what that means for your work
• Translate circle process principles to varied contexts: formal meetings, virtual spaces, contentious dialogues, healing circles
• Practice facilitation with realistic scenarios involving race, power, and conflict
• Create spaces grounded in healing and justice, facilitating with clear values while honoring diverse perspectives

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS)

How much does the training cost?

Registration is offered on a sliding scale that reflects our commitment to equitable access. We trust participants to choose the rate that reflects their resources.
Community — $297, Sustainability- $497, Institutional - $697

Do you offer a group discount?

Yes. Organizations registering 5 or more participants at the Sustainability or Institutional rate receive a 15% group discount. Contact us at info[at]urbanandracialequity.org to arrange group registration.

How will I receive the Zoom link and training materials?

Your Zoom link and training materials will be emailed a few days before the training. Check your spam folder and contact us if you haven't received them two days prior to the training.

Is this training accessible?

You'll be asked about accessibility needs during registration. Closed captioning will be provided. Please share what would support your full participation and we'll do our best to meet your needs.

Can I use an AI notetaker during the training?

AI notetakers (Otter, Fireflies, etc.) disrupt the trust and confidentiality of our learning space and are not permitted. If you have notetaking accessibility needs, please let us know during registration.

What is the refund policy?

Life happens! Please review the following before registering.

• Cancellations & Refunds

To cancel your registration, please email us at info[at]urbanandracialequity.org as far in advance as possible.

Full refunds (minus platform ticketing fees) are available up to 14 business days before the first day of your training. A 50% refund is available 8–13 business days before the training. No refunds are available within 7 business days of the training start date.

If CURE cancels or postpones a training for any reason—including low enrollment, facilitator illness, weather, or other unforeseen circumstances—registered participants will receive a full refund including ticketing fees, or the option to transfer their registration to a future date.

Transfers

If you're unable to attend, you may request one transfer per registration by contacting CURE at least 48 hours before the training begins. No transfers are available once the training has begun. Transfer options include:

• Changing your registration to a future date of the same training, if available
• Transferring your registration to another person

Registrations purchased at the Solidarity rate may only be transferred to another individual who qualifies for that rate. If the new participant does not qualify, the difference in cost must be paid before the transfer is confirmed.