Trainings & Webinars

At IISC, we believe learning should be practical, participatory, and joyful. That’s why our 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 any of our three core trainings will receive a digital certificate to celebrate their learning. Learn more in our Trainings FAQ.

Stay tuned and sign up for our Love in Interaction newsletter for updates. We can’t wait to learn and lead alongside you this year!

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.

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

Harnessing networks and data to shape food policy for equity and resilience

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

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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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.

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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  • “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