Fundamentals of Facilitation for Racial Justice Work (Online) May-June 2025
Wed May 7, 2025 1:00 PM - Wed Jun 4, 2025 4:00 PM EDT
Online, Zoom
Description
Design and facilitate the challenging conversations that catalyze breakthrough thinking and lasting agreements
Join us for this intensive learning laboratory where we will experiment with a variety of ways to help people connect in authentic ways that yield productive conversations and solid agreements.
Session 1: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 1:00PM - 4:00PM ET
Session 2: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 1:00PM - 4:00PM ET
Session 3: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 1:00PM - 4:00PM ET
Session 4: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 1:00PM - 4:00PM ET
Session 5: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 1:00PM - 4:00PM ET
Facilitators
Adeola Ordeola
Adeola’s name (which means “crown of honor” in Yoruba) and her family have always helped her stay rooted in community and embody the power of those who came before her. Roots on her father’s side move through Saki, Nigeria and Bolgatanga, Ghana. And on her mother’s side through Chicago, Il and Starkville, MS. She grew up and currently lives in a culturally dynamic, mostly recent immigrant community on occupied Narragansett land also known as Providence, RI.
Adeola is a space holder and community based educator, supporting social justice circles to build capacity through facilitation, training, coaching, and event curation. She centers systemic wellbeing, collective healing, transformative play, and Black liberation in her work. She does that independently and as an affiliate with the Interaction Institute for Social Change and with One Square World. Adeola has 18 years of experience in nonprofit leadership and consulting, work she’s been fortunate to do mostly alongside brilliant young people and within Black and Brown communities.
Adeola has also had the honor of helping to plan the Free Minds Free People conference since 2011, organizing Undoing Racism workshops in New England since 2016, and being a board member with the Education for Liberation Network since 2019. Some of her favorite people in the world are connected to Youth In Action, Free Minds Free People, Soul Fire Farm, and Urban Bush Women—all communities that are close to her heart. Black geekiness, meditation, sitting by a fire, and deeply loving conversation are some of the things that bring her joy.
Jeremy Phillips
Jeremy Phillips (he series) is an organizational change consultant who works in partnership with his clients to bring the best of themselves and their work forward to advance their vital social justice missions. Jeremy is a cis-gendered white male, who brings a racial justice lens and small “d” democratic commitment to his organizational change work.
His approach and guiding principles are of partnership, relationship and equity, with a focus on surfacing and leveraging strengths and possibilities rather than problems and deficits.
Jeremy has been a facilitator and trainer for mission-driven, social and racial justice organizations locally, nationally, and internationally for over twenty years. He became an independent consultant in 2004 in order to most effectively engage with and support real impact for his clients. Jeremy is the co-founder and co-leader of the Emerging Consultants Training, a project that seeks to support social justice leaders of color to engage in organizational development consulting in social justice and movement building spaces.
Jeremy came to organizational change consulting after 15 years working with young people in a variety of settings: from schools, to alternative placements, to out-of-school time. His work with youth primarily focused on helping them understand and act on their power and agency — in their own lives and in their communities.
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Choosing your ticket type
- If you are individual who works in a grassroots organization or are otherwise affiliated with a racial justice group and you are paying for the workshop yourself, please register as Grassroots*
- If you are individual with a social or public sector organization, please register as Nonprofit.
- If you are in individual with a grantmaking or philanthropic organization, please register as Foundation.
- If you are individual with a social venture organization, please register as For-Profit/Social Venture.
*The number of these tickets is limited, so we invite those who are BIPOC, systematically marginalized or excluded, and have the highest level of financial need to register with this ticket type. If this is the only ticket type that works for you and it’s sold out, please sign-up for the waitlist and we’ll contact you if a spot becomes available.
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