Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change (In-Person)
Lead in a way that inspires, invites participation, and builds commitment
Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change develops practical collaborative skills and tools for tapping the creativity, experience, and commitment of groups and provides participants with a forum in which to explore their challenges and aspirations as leaders.
This will be a 2.5 day in-person workshop.
Session 1: Monday, September 29, 2025 9:00AM – 5:00PM ET
Session 2: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 9:00AM – 5:00PM ET
Session 3: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 9:00AM – 2:00PM ET
Location: NonProfit Center, 89 South Street, Boston, MA 02111
Who Should Attend?
If you are committed to creating conditions in which you and others can act together and make change, moving together from vision to action in extraordinary new ways, then Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change is for you. IISC defines leadership broadly, regardless of formal or positional authority; participants from a variety of organizational and network structures and hierarchies find value in this training program. You will, as well.
Why This Matters
Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change develops practical collaborative skills and tools for tapping our individual and collective creativity and experience as social change agents. At the heart of the workshop are powerful leadership practices that make it easy for all of us — regardless of race, class, gender, ability, sexuality, and other identities and experiences — to offer our perspectives and talents, speak up when we have problems, take initiative, make decisions, work with others, and share responsibility for the health of the team, organization, or network.
What You’ll Learn
Facilitative Leaders model key practices that make it easier for principled, self-empowered collaborators to communicate, decide, and act together. The following list of these practices represents what you will learn in our standard seven-session online workshop or our two-day in-person workshops to engage your own and your collaborators’ skills, wisdom, and energy towards your shared goals.
- Introduction to Facilitative Leadership™ & Building Liberatory Power Equitably: Learn tools to create power-with, not power-over, focused on liberation and justice.
- Focus on Results, Process, Relationships: Balance outcomes, continuous improvement, and healthy connections to sustain collaboration.
- Discover Shared Meaning: Use communication to deepen understanding and improve decision-making and collective action.
- See Systems: Navigate complexity by recognizing the connections between visible and hidden layers of systems.
- Seek Maximum Appropriate Involvement: Make intentional, inclusive decisions that leverage people’s talents and build trust.
- Design and Facilitate Meetings: Use simple, intentional processes to create environments for participation and successful collaboration.
What You Can Expect
The Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change workshop includes small group time to practice and grow your understanding, and individual reflection to help integrate the practices into your life and work. We prioritize connection between the program participants because the group’s collective wisdom is precious, and we try to give it space to grow and spread.
IISC is pleased to have a team of brilliantly skilled trainers – some of the best in the movement. All are fully steeped in the practices of FL4SC and also bring their own unique facilitation magic as they deliver IISC’s workshops grounded in our lens of love, power, and networks. You can look forward to a joyful and inspirational experience that is highly interactive and may include music, poetry, somatic practices.
Pricing
$575/person (Grassroots)
$1,125/person (Nonprofit)
$1,400/person (Foundation)
$1,675/person (For-Profit/Social Venture)
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Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change is available – both online and in-person – as an offering for participants from one organization or network. Details and pricing can be found here.
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