Services

Facilitation and Consultation

We can help your department or organization resolve conflicts, address specific anti-oppression issues, or raise new ideas. We offer:

Customized facilitation for retreats, meetings, and decision-making processes
Event planning
Restorative/transformative justice strategy sessions
Grant-writing, copywriting, and editing assistance
Leadership development consulting and training
Strategic planning
Consulting on grassroots fundraising
Consulting on youth-driven organizing
Consulting on LGBTQ inclusion and other workplace diversity issues

Our facilitation and consultation services make use of techniques from popular education, restorative justice, and years of helping to build successful organizations.

Workshops and Trainings

We offer interactive workshops and trainings tailored to your organization’s needs. Training topics include:

Ageism/adultism

Art action and media justice

Anti-oppression 101

Anti-racist organizing

Anti-racist white affinity groups & capacity building

Being an anti-oppression ally

Communication and consent

Community accountability

Community building across race

Criminalization of youth

Digital storytelling

Disability and inclusion

Gender violence and sexual violence

Grassroots fundraising

Harm Reduction

Leadership development

LGBTQ issues

Media literacy and media justice

Oral history/storytelling for social justice

Organizing 101

Peacemaking circles

Popular education

Prisons and incarceration

Prison abolition and transformative justice

Racism and resistance

Restorative justice

School-to-prison pipeline

Sex-positivity

Strategic communications and talking to the press

Supporting sexual assault survivors

Systemic violence

Transgender inclusion

Trauma and self-care

Violence intervention strategy sessions

White privilege

Youth leadership

For Introduction to the Prison-Industrial Complex workshops and information, please see http://chicagopiccollective.com/

For great workshops on adultism and youth organizing, please check out our partners at the Chicago Freedom School: http://chicagofreedomschool.org/

For resources and trainings for new and emerging youth organizations, please check out the Center for Emerging Leadership: http://chicagocel.wordpress.com.

Fees

All workshops and trainings are sliding scale based on your organization’s needs; institutions with greater access to resources are encouraged to help subsidize our work with low- and no-budget groups. Please contact us for details.