LIVING FACILITATION FRAMEWORKS
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A Professional Development Online Course
Are you inspired to lead groups, but feel uncertain of where to begin and how to hone your unique facilitation style?
Are you an educator, facilitator, or consultant and looking to grow the edge of your leadership capabilities?
Wondering what regenerative group facilitation looks like in action?
Learn Living Facilitation Frameworks with faculty Abrah Dresdale and develop your personal approach to creating inclusive, dynamic containers for a group’s collective intelligence to unfurl.
WHAT WE'LL COVER
- Identify your authentic voice and unique style of facilitation
- Design group spaces for equity and liberation, with an eye to power dynamics and how to cultivate solidarity
- Generate holistic goals that do not just face outward, toward clients or students, but also nourish you, the facilitator
- Understand what is meant by a “living systems perspective” and how to apply it to embodied facilitation
- Gracefully incorporate ritual and honoring into group spaces
- Learn shared leadership practices that build community, resilience, and mutual accountability
COURSE COMPONENTS
8 detailed video lessons that guide you through theory and practical approaches to Living Facilitation
8 thought-provoking applied exercises plus additional reflection and integration journal prompts and short readings
A free digital copy of The Regenerative Facilitator’s Guide, a 15 page guide authored by Abrah w/Regenerate Change Team
Resource lists on Trauma-Informed Approaches and Embodied Learning/Somatic Approaches
An exclusive learning community on Regenerative Changemakers’ wider network to connect with fellow participants and workshop faculty, Abrah Dresdale
An online network to support a community of practice for workshop alumni long after the course concludes
YOUR TEACHER
Living Facilitation Frameworks is hosted by Abrah Dresdale, M.A., (she/her), Co-founding Director of Regenerate Change, a visionary educator, curriculum designer, and culture-shift consultant specializing in regenerative design, social permaculture, and prison food justice.
Abrah has been Faculty since 2011 at the Sustainable Food and Farming program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and for Omega Institute’s Center for Sustainable Living since 2015. She was the Founding Faculty and Coordinator of the nationally acclaimed Farm and Food Systems program at Greenfield Community College. She later established and led the Jail-to-Farm-to-College & Employment program in Massachusetts’ Franklin County Jail.
Named a New England Fixer by Grist Magazine, she is author of Regenerative Design for Changemakers.
Visit her website at: abrahdresdale.com
Living Facilitation Frameworks is hosted by Abrah Dresdale, M.A., (she/her), Co-founding Director of Regenerate Change, a visionary educator, curriculum designer, and culture-shift consultant specializing in regenerative design, social permaculture, and prison food justice.
Abrah has been Faculty since 2011 at the Sustainable Food and Farming program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and for Omega Institute’s Center for Sustainable Living since 2015. She was the Founding Faculty and Coordinator of the nationally acclaimed Farm and Food Systems program at Greenfield Community College. She later established and led the Jail-to-Farm-to-College & Employment program in Massachusetts’ Franklin County Jail.
Named a New England Fixer by Grist Magazine, she is author of Regenerative Design for Changemakers.
Visit her website at: abrahdresdale.com
COURSE TIMELINE
Living Facilitation Frameworks contains 5 Units of Content, structured over a 4 Week Period. While it is ideal to complete the content over 4 weeks, the course material will remain available to you indefinitely.
- Week 1: UNIT 1 Seed Packet Contents AND UNIT 2 Intro to Regenerative Facilitation
- Week 2: UNIT 3 Cultivating Healthy Group Dynamics
- Week 3: UNIT 4 Uprooting Oppressive Dynamics
- Week 4: UNIT 5 Prioritizing Reflection and Integration
This workshop is an asynchronous course spread over 4 weeks. This means that you can log on and engage with the course content and the workshop learning community whenever you like! While there are no live video calls to fit into your schedule, you can post questions to faculty Abrah Dresdale and each week she will respond to your comments.
Depending on your learning style and pace, the content each week will take about 1-3 hours to complete. On top of that, you can choose how much or little you want to engage with other participants by posting in the workshop activity feed.
REGISTRATION COST
All our educational offerings at Regenerate Change are run on a sliding-scale model, with three tiers to allow for participation from changemakers of a wide variety of backgrounds. Before you sign up, please review the options below and pick the tier that feels most appropriate for your circumstances.
SCHOLARSHIP RATE
$90
A limited number of scholarship seats are reserved at this rate solely for participants who identify as low-income BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). Register here by self-selection – no application necessary.
SUSTAINER RATE
$300
Register at this rate if you’re an individual or representing a new organization, and do not land in either the Scholarship or Sponsor descriptions. This rate reflects the true cost for Regenerate Change to deliver this course.
SPONSOR RATE
$450
For participants who have access to intergenerational wealth or self-generated surplus income, we encourage registering at the Sponsor rate. This rate directly supports our ability to provide scholarships and funds towards our reparations commitment.
