Workshops for Organizations

Guiding Threads Collective facilitates tailored workshops for organizations that are looking to skill-up their team around key organizational topics. If you’re interested in bringing our workshops to your organization, please reach out to schedule time to talk about your group’s context and needs!

Our workshops are interactive, playful, and engaging sessions that pair innovative frameworks with opportunities for practice so participants can put their learnings into immediate action. Workshops are 2 or 3 hour and virtual over zoom or in-person. Our workshops highlight both interpersonal and team-wide tools to drive effective learning and culture change.

We offer three workshop series: the Skill-Building Series, the Leadership Series, and the Grassroots Series.

Skill-Building Series

DECISION-MAKING

Sharing Power to Build Trust: New Ways to Make Decisions as a Team

By being transparent and intentional about how decision-making power operates in a group, we can avoid potential conflict, miscommunication, and distrust that gets in the way of our collaboration. This workshop explores how different decision-making structures and practices can be used to build trust, create clarity, and share power across teams and organizations.

CONFLICT

From Conflict to Clarity: Navigating Tension in Teams with Grace and Strategy

This workshop equips teams with the skills to turn the next moment of tension into generative conflict rather than toxicity. Through self-reflection and practice with research-based tools, participants will learn how to assess the heat and scope of conflict as it emerges, and apply techniques to effectively communicate and navigate through tension and disagreement.

FEEDBACK

Building a Feedback-Friendly Organization

Being able to give and receive feedback is key to harnessing collective wisdom, cultivating leadership inside of your organization, and sharpening the strategy and tactics that are vital to your success. This workshop outlines the ingredients of a feedback-friendly culture and supports participants in developing tangible skills to implement feedback structures and practices.

FACILITATION

Facilitation Tools for Effective Meetings

Meetings are where we brainstorm, vision, and make decisions together, and a thoughtful agenda and intentional facilitation skills can unlock the full wisdom and potential of a group. This workshop outlines common pitfalls of meeting facilitation, shares frameworks for designing engaging conversations, and offers tools to support group participation and generative discussion.

Leadership Series

LEADERSHIP

Grounded Leadership: A Workshop for Organizational Leaders at All Levels

This workshop supports mission-driven organizational leaders at all levels to lead - a critically underdeveloped, highly-critiqued, and much needed skill in our movement organizations. Participants will reflect on their own relationship to power, chart where they can boldly advance their work, and identify where and how to cultivate the leadership of others. This session offers tangible leadership tools to apply to both day-to-day responsibilities and long-term strategic decisions.

MANAGEMENT

Empowered Management: Building Vibrant Organizations from the Middle

This workshop empowers middle managers to tap into their skills, values, and influence to create more equitable and thriving workplaces. Through reflection prompts, management frameworks, and tangible tools, this workshop will equip middle managers to strengthen workplace culture and build effective, collaborative relationships with both executive leadership and staff.

Grassroots Series

MUTUAL AID

Getting Unstuck: Tools to Strengthen Our Mutual Aid Groups

Mutual aid organizing is more crucial than ever, but the pressure of responding to mounting crises can strain our relationships, group formations, and collaboration. In this workshop, we’ll offer tools for communication, group structure, and decision-making to address common challenges in mutual aid organizing. Participants will explore how building values-aligned practices and structures can create meaningful participation, shared leadership and accountability, and effective action.

CAMPAIGN DESIGN

Power Mapping for Sharper Campaigns

This workshop introduces power mapping, a key tool to building shared analysis of a campaign landscape to better inform your organizing strategy. Together, participants will brainstorm and categorize potential stakeholders, assess and refine strategies, and tailor outreach techniques to strengthen your campaign and increase your impact.