Facilitation Fellowship
Facilitate Change’s Facilitation Fellowship is an intentional 8-session series supporting emerging and experienced Facilitators in centering personal and community process-holding and healing as a means for collective liberation. It is a space for fellows to build and deepen their relationships to themselves and each other while learning practical facilitation skills. We will do this through a “Training the Trainer” model where the Fellowship format will allow for an experiential learning opportunity on the intricacies of space and process holding.
The program includes the practices of personal storytelling, and compassionate listening, allowing fellows to participate in dialogue as action. The content of our sessions will center on creating a common language around issues of equity, justice and a community organizing approach to addressing these issues. Participants will be tasked with putting these facilitation skills into practice by organizing and facilitating a community conversation on a topic of their choice. A Facilitate Change facilitator will attend their conversation and be able to give practical and caring feedback on how the participant did as a facilitator before the close of the program.
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WHEN
The program will run virtually from 3:30pm to 6:30pm on Wednesday afternoons beginning in May. We aim to have a cohort of 8-10 participants. 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.
WED, May 7, 2025, 3:30pm– 6:30pm
WED May 14, 2025, 3:30pm– 6:30pm
WED, May 28, 2025, 3:30pm– 6:30pm
WED, June 4, 2025, 3:30pm– 6:30pm
WED, June 18, 2025, 3:30pm– 6:30pm
WED, June 25, 2025, 3:30pm– 6:30pm
*Break July and August for participant led community facilitations
WED, Sept 3, 2025, 3:30pm– 6:30pm
WED, Sept 10, 2025, 3:30pm– 6:30pm
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COST
We want to ensure that this Fellowship is financially accessible while still fairly compensating our facilitators for their labor. This program costs us $2,925 per participant to run and pay our facilitators a liveable wage. However, we remain grounded in our values of creativity in making our programs more widely financially accessible. As a result, we have created a tiered system to support lower income people in participating through the financial contribution of people with higher financial privilege.
We ask that accepted individuals review the Green Bottle Method to assess where you fall in the sliding scale and then select a donation from the tiered breakdown below that feels accessible to them while considering how privilege has impacted their current financial situation.
Green Bottle Method: https://www.wortsandcunning.com/blog/sliding-scale
- Community Rate – $250
- Solidarity Rate – $1,000
- Sustain Rate – $3,000
- Vision Rate – $4,000 (rate if sponsored by an organization)
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.