Public trainings
Public trainings are offered online and in person throughout the year. Taking place over three live half-day sessions and three 90-minute accompaniment sessions spread across one month (and supported by a self-paced learning lab), these trainings are a great way to hone your abilities while building relationships across borders. You can register as an individual or attend as a team.
In-house training for organizations and networks
In-house trainings support organizations, teams or collaboration partners. Joining the training together means a more confident and connected team, creative new ideas and more meaningful results. Get in touch to discuss your needs. We’ll work with you to design a program that supports your team to deepen their individual and collective capacities to work together in more engaging, enjoyable and impactful ways.
Looking for help designing and delivering an important workshop, event or process? Contact us to learn more about our social impact consulting services.
What to expect
We meet you where you are at.
Our team will craft a supportive, brave(r) and experimental learning space so that you can work in that messy and creative place where aha moments and great ideas are born. By the end of the program, you will have gained:
- a new awareness about your facilitation patterns, strengths and areas to work on;
- an understanding of collective storytelling as a strategy for holding multiple perspectives in ways that can reclaim and rehumanize collective work;
- the ability to work with tension and complexity in generative ways;
- confidence using tools designed for virtual, hybrid and in-person workspaces;
- a digital portfolio of resources, tools and practices you can experiment, adapt and apply to your unique context and work.
More details on program event pages.
Spring's expert facilitators are engaged civil society and movement leaders, funders, and storytellers around the world. Many of us have lived the struggles you’re up against, so we designed the program to help you solve them. We are inspired by neuroscience, somatics, design thinking, equity design, anti-oppression, future framing, accelerated learning, liberatory structures, deep democracy, Art of Gathering, Emergent Strategy, the Integral FacilitatorTM method and more. Learn more about our partners by browsing our client list.
Why is facilitating so important right now?
In recent years we've witnessed powerful victories for human rights, watershed moments in the fight for climate action and encouraging shifts in mindset in a world struggling to end extreme inequality and dismantle colonization. We've also struggled to adapt to resource constraints, the uncertainty and devastation of covid-19, political polarization and burnout as we respond to crisis after crisis.
Many of us already feel called to prioritize more compassionate modes of working, distributed networks of power and solidarity, and holistic ways of relating to one another and to nature. Some of the ideas and trends are new. Some are ancient, gaining ground as once-silenced communities lead the way forward—fusing the wisdom of the past, the technology of the present and the possibility of the future.
Skillful facilitation is a vital, but sometimes overlooked, part of stewarding radical hope and action. Meaningful and integral collaboration is critical to building the sustainable and liberated worlds we long for.
Reimagining Collaboration is for people who are interested in radical shifts, catalytic conversations and how to be powerful agents of social change shaping humanity's next chapter.