Trainings & Workshops

At IISC, we believe learning should be practical, participatory, and joyful. That’s why our trainings, workshops, and webinars are designed to spark inspiration while equipping you with tools you can put to use right away. We continue to offer highly interactive online trainings on Zoom and are reintroducing select in-person workshops for deeper connection and collaboration.

Certificates of Completion: As of March 2025, participants who complete Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change will receive a digital certificate. Learn more in our Trainings FAQ.

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Note: Both Fundamentals of Facilitation for Racial Justice Work and Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change are available online and in-person for organizations and networks. More information here.

How to Set Strategic Direction When Nothing Is Certain

A justice-centered approach to navigating chaos with clarity, courage, and adaptability.

In a world where predictions are shaky and change is constant, traditional planning falls short. This webinar introduces IISC’s Five Practices for Strategic Direction Setting, a values-driven approach that helps leaders move through uncertainty without losing their North Star.  Learn More
2 hours

Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change

Lead in a way that inspires, invites participation, and builds commitment

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 easier for all of us 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.   Learn More
Seven three-hour sessions or two full days in-person

Racial Justice Community of Practice

A free space for peer support and learning while advancing racial justice

This quarterly gathering is a space for connection, reflection, and action. Together, we’ll explore challenges, celebrate progress, and share strategies to advance racial justice in and through our organizations. Whether you’re just starting out or deeply experienced, this is your community to recharge, learn, and lead boldly.  Learn More

Leading Through Organizational Change & Transitions

Support your team with steadiness, transparency, and shared leadership.

Transitions are inevitable, but how we lead through them is a choice. This webinar offers practical tools for guiding teams through uncertainty, restructuring, leadership changes, and shifting priorities with humanity and intention. Learn how to communicate with clarity, manage the emotional landscape of change, and strengthen trust when the stakes are high.  Learn More
2 hours

Facilitating Decision-Making Across Differences

Bring your team to clarity even when perspectives diverge. Grounded in IISC’s flagship Facilitative Leadership™ approach.

Decisions are harder when identities, power, and perspectives intersect. This webinar introduces facilitative tools and structures that help groups make thoughtful, equitable decisions – even when navigating tension or disagreement. Learn how to create the conditions for shared understanding, lift up unheard voices, and guide teams toward choices they can stand behind.  Learn More
2 hours

Stop Talking, Start Doing: Making Change Stick Beyond the Meeting

Turn insight into action, and action into lasting impact.

We’ve all been in meetings full of great ideas that never go anywhere. This webinar gives you tools to bridge the gap between conversation and implementation. Learn how to create agreements people actually follow through on, build momentum after decisions are made, and support your team in sustaining change over time.  Learn More
2 hours

Essential Facilitation™: Core Skills for Guiding Groups

Strengthen your collaboration skills for a world that needs courageous, connected leadership.

In a time of rapid shifts and tough decisions, it’s more important than ever to collaborate. And, it’s more challenging than ever to facilitate effective meetings where people are sharing information, making decisions, and taking action. Essential Facilitation™ is a two-day, hands-on, in-person training designed to help.  Learn More

Leading Meetings That Move People and Work Forward

A practical, energizing session grounded in IISC’s beloved Essential Facilitation™ approach.

Tired of meetings that drain energy instead of generating it? This webinar introduces simple, powerful practices that help groups move from confusion to clarity, and from talking about work to actually getting it done. Learn how to design meetings that spark engagement, build trust, and lead to real progress, no matter your role or level of facilitation experience.  Learn More
2 hours

RECORDING – Feeding Ourselves: Networks, Data and Policy for Just and Sustainable Food Systems

A timely conversation on how communities are reshaping food systems to be more equitable and resilient. Drawing lessons from Vermont and Rhode Island, this webinar will explore how networks can shift power, how user-friendly data can drive action, and how participatory processes can make food policy more people-centered.  Learn More

RECORDING – Light Work for Heavy Times: Networks as Fuel for Long-Term Collective Wellbeing

In a world thick with fear and fragmentation, how do we stay grounded in purpose and possibility? Join us for a powerful, interactive webinar exploring network weaving as a vital practice of resistance, resilience, and reconnection. Featuring special guests and fellow “light workers” Noel Didla and Keith Bergthold, we’ll share stories, strategies, and sparks of inspiration to help you build networks that carry the load and shine through the dark.  Learn More

RECORDINGS – Leadership for Transformative Futures

A multi-part interactive learning experience

This series was designed for leaders of all kinds – organizers, network members, and those working for justice. In each of the first two sessions delivered thus far, the IISC facilitators helped leaders dig into the complexity and reactivity of the moment. Together we explored the roots of a current critical issue, and IISC offered tools with an eye on identifying opportunities to move towards transformative and equitable futures.  Learn More

  • Conversation and Tools for Leading During Moments of Chaos and Complexity Recording
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  • New and Ancient Wisdom for Shared Leadership: Lessons to (Re)Learn and Unlearn Recording
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  • From Conflict to Connection: Strategies to Meet the Moment Recording
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Moving Through Chaos and Complexity: Network Weaving for Social Healing in Times of Great Change

As we find ourselves swimming in uncharted and unsettling times, we know that we need each other and must work together in new and deeply collaborative ways. We are all problem-solving day-to-day and facing many critical decisions related to our own and others’ wellbeing. How can we move beyond crisis mode to strategically and care-fully build networks that sustain us for the long haul?  Learn More

An Introduction to Advancing Racial Justice in Organizations

Designing collaborative change for racial justice

Now more than ever, change agents in organizations large and small need new tools and a fresh perspective to catalyze and sustain the work of racial justice. Whether you are already leading or want to lead racial justice work within your organization, ARJ will give you the skills and tools you need to mobilize your colleagues. Combined with your passion for guiding your organization’s efforts, our expert insight and support will teach you how to translate your organization’s racial justice values into action and impact.  Learn More

Fundamentals of Facilitation for Racial Justice Work

Facilitate conversations that spark breakthrough thinking and lasting agreements

This workshop offers facilitators skills and tools to draw upon as we strive to be effective at helping people of diverse identities explore race, racism, and racial justice in ways that support them to work together more constructively.  Learn More
Available online in five three-hour sessions or in-person over two full days.

  • “Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change will give you tangible tools to do what you’ve always wished you could do better: marry your heart and your mind in leadership. This training showed me how to blend emotional intelligence, empathy, social justice, honesty, reflection, and inquiry into pragmatic models with real outcomes. The best of both worlds! … being an efficient leader who cares what others bring to the table and inspires them for the best possible outcome.”

    Nicole Hamilton
    Director of Urban Leaders Academy, Girls for Gender Equity