Trainings & Webinars

IISC is excited to continue offering our powerful learning experiences online and to reintroduce select workshops in person! Our open-enrollment Zoom trainings are content-rich, highly interactive, and easy to join. Participants consistently describe them as inspiring, engaging, and fun.

Both Fundamentals of Facilitation for Racial Justice Work and Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change are available online and in-person for groups within your organization or network. More information is available here regarding the delivery of our workshops to groups.

Stay tuned for updates here and via our mailing list. We hope to see you in a session this year!

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.
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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.
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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 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. 
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Seven three-hour sessions or two full days in-person

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.
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Available online in five three-hour sessions or in-person over two full days.

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.
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Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change (In-Person)

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

We’re considering offering Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change (FL4SC) as an in-person training in Boston, September 29 – October 1, 2025, and want to know who’s excited to join us. FL4SC equips leaders like you to drive equity, strengthen collaboration, and lead change across teams, organizations, and communities.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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  • 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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  • This workshop 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