Facilitation Fellowship
Facilitate Change’s Facilitation Fellowship is an intentional 8-session series centering personal and community healing as a means for collective liberation. It is a space for fellows to build and deepen their relationships to themselves and each other. This is done through the practices of personal storytelling and holding space with and for one another, allowing fellows to participate in dialogue as action.
Limited to 10 participants, the Fellowship is an experience of the power of intentional community and its ability to help us unlearn the unique ways privilege and oppression have been internalized by each of us. In order to center this kind of healing, an application process has been created to ensure we can assemble a cohort primarily composed of individuals with marginalized identities.
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WHEN
The Fellowship for this seventh iteration will be 8 four-hour sessions occurring every other Saturday between September and December. Because of the vulnerability required to co-create this space, we ask that you only apply if you can commit to at least 7 of the 8 sessions scheduled. If you cannot commit to 7 of the dates below, please apply for the next cohort.
SAT, SEP 7, 2024, 10am – 2pm
SAT, SEP 21, 2024, 10am – 2pm
SAT, OCT 5, 2024, 10am – 2pm
SAT, OCT 19, 2024, 10am – 2pm
SAT, NOV 2, 2024, 10am – 2pm
SAT, NOV 16, 2024, 10am – 2pm
SAT, NOV 30 2024, 10am – 2pm
SAT, DEC 14, 2024, 10am – 2pm
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COST
We want to ensure that this Fellowship is financially accessible while still fairly compensating our facilitators for their labor. While the total program cost is still relatively low at approximately $24,000 splitting that cost amongst 10 participants evenly would still come to a rather inaccessible $2,400 per participant. Instead, Facilitate Change sees this Fellowship as a necessary investment in our community and our collective liberation.
We ask that accepted individuals select a donation from the tiered breakdown below that feels accessible to them while considering how privilege has impacted their current financial situation. While some institutions offer funds for professional development, we are looking for participants to represent only themselves and see this experience outside of the frame of professionalism. There is no application fee. Interested parties can also chose to financially support the work based on the Donation and Sponsorship tiers below:
- $25
- $100
- $250
- $500
- $1,000
- $2,500
- $5,000
- $10,000
If you’re still not sure that the Fellowship is a good fit for where you, consider it as described by members of the first cohort:
“A very intentional space that allows for community building, storytelling, and processing of emotions/experiences.”
“It’s unlike anything we have been taught in a capitalistic society that values profit over people and labor over connection and community”
“This fellowship brought together individuals who want to re-imagine a world that is just and equitable. Through this supportive community, I feel that we are on track to achieving the world we deserve – through love, vulnerability, and dialogue.”
“I’ve described it as a collaborative and intentional community space focused on the practice of dialogue as action.”
“The fellowship is a chance to practice reflection and healing with other folks in the community who are also organizing for change in different ways. This fellowship is also a space to connect with new people and/or deepen your connections. Through this fellowship you can practice facilitating reflective spaces for small groups.”
“The Fellowship is a space for healing, listening, holding, and creating community.