Whether you’re initiating new collaborations, deepening existing ones, or navigating the transition or end of a collaboration, this workshop series will help you strengthen and practice skills that centre mutual care and support, trust and relationships, and figure out ways to be in alignment with your values.
In this three-part workshop series, Kanaka and Taashi will share tools and approaches to plant (i.e. start), nurture (i.e. sustain), and harvest (i.e. transition) collaborations and partnerships. In each workshop, there will be time to practice and apply the tools learned.
Each workshop will be 90 minutes in length and consist of
Introduction of tools/ approach
Community of Practice
Group learnings
Email us at info@groundingsolutions.ca if you would like to host one or more of these workshops for your organization or group.
Workshops
Planting the Seeds: Laying the Groundwork for Collaboration
July 16, 12 – 1:30 pm EST
In this first workshop, we’ll explore tools and approaches to lay the groundwork for trust and reciprocity in a collaboration, while building on each collaborator’s strengths, capacities, and intentions.
Nurturing the Growth: Sustaining and Strengthening Collaborations
July 30, 12 – 1:30 pm EST
When a collaboration is going well, it’s important to continue to take care and strengthen the structures and ecosystems that help sustain relationships. In this second workshop, we’ll explore tools and approaches that tend to the systems and structures strengthen ongoing communication and relationships, so that you can be better prepared to navigate challenges that may come.
Gathering the Harvest: Transitioning Collaborations with Intention
August 13, 12 – 1:30 pm EST
In this third workshop, we’ll explore tools and approaches to navigate internal and external changes and transitions within a collaboration that center care, reflect on lessons, and sustain relationships beyond a specific project or initiative. This includes identifying ways to navigate changes in external environments and the political climate.
Who is this series for?
This workshop series is designed for non-profit staff, grassroots organizers, and anyone whose work requires community relationships, collaborations, and partnerships.
The workshop series is for people who desire to:
- Build or strengthen their practice of centering reciprocity, mutual learning and accountability, and care in their collaborations; and
- Engage in a community of practice, to deepen and envision new ways of collaborating that centres the people behind the goals and intentions that bring them together.
What does it cost?
This program is designed as a professional development opportunity for non-profit staff, with the assumption that many of the participants will be partially or fully covered through your organization. Our rates are informed by our intended audience, number of participants, length of program, and to ensure a sliding scale that makes space for grassroots organizers and individuals that may not currently be employed. Below is our sliding scale rate with an assessment, adapted from AORTA, to help you determine what rate would work best for you.
Workshop Series (Three Workshops)
Full Cost: $100
Redistribution: $150
Solidarity: $50
Individual Workshop
Full Cost: $40
Redistribution: $60
Solidarity: $20
Note: We never want money to be a barrier. We are happy to offer free or further discounted spots for people between employment and for grassroots organizations for whom the solidarity rate is inaccessible. Please email us at info@groundingsolutions.ca.
Please assess your organization based on the criteria below to determine which sliding scale level you should choose. We know that the picture of an organization’s financial resources can be complex, and trust you to self-assess and determine which Rate is most true for you and/your organization/group.
Solidarity Assessment
- If your organization or group’s annual budget is under $1 Million
- If your organization or group is led by/for BIPOC communities, 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, newcomers, working class communities, and/or disabled communities
- If the highest-paid person in your organization or group is paid less than $65,000/year (FTE), or your organization has no paid staff
- If your organization or group does not have dedicated budgets for professional development or conference attendance
- If you are between employment, underemployed or not employed
Full Cost Assessment
- If your organization or group’s annual budget is between $1 – $4 Million
- If the highest-paid person in your organization or group makes between $65,000-$100,000/year (FTE)
- If your organization or group has dedicated budgets to cover some professional development or conference attendance for staff (approx. 1 per year)
Redistribution Assessment
If your organization or group’s annual budget is over $4 million
If the highest-paid person in your organization or group makes over $100,000/year (FTE)
If your organization or group has dedicated budgets to regularly cover professional development or conference attendance for staff. (more than 1 per year)
Program fees are non-refundable.
If you cannot participate, you can transfer your registration to a different participant. Please let us know by email at info@groundingsolutions.ca
If we need to cancel a session (due to unforeseen circumstances), we will do our best to reschedule for a later date. If you are unable to attend on the rescheduled date, or if we are not able to reschedule the session, we will provide a refund.
Access Information
Participation
Each workshop has engagement activities. We strongly encourage participants to come prepared to have their camera on to participate in pair, small group, and large group discussions. We strongly encourage using a computer, rather than a cell phone or tablet. At times, we will also offer the option to solo journal instead of joining a group discussion.
Program Delivery
All sessions will be hosted on Zoom using video, voice, and chat functions. Each session is 90 minutes long with a break.
Captions, Transcripts, and Recordings
We will use Zoom captions for the sessions. Participants will also be able to download a transcript. You will receive a recording of each session, available for 60 days.
Accessibility
We ask questions in our registration to better understand your access needs and work to best meet them. We encourage early registration to support our ability to connect with you, and/or adapt the workshop to meet access needs not covered in this section.
Tech and access Support
A tech and access support person will be present throughout the training to attend to any emergent needs.
Please email us at info@groundingsolutions.ca with any questions or access support.
Frequently Asked Questions
Each workshop focuses on sharing a tool, framework or approach followed by an opportunity to build on and practice that tool with others in pairs or small groups through a community of practice approach, that allows participants to share and learn from each other.
If the content and approach feels appealing, then this workshop series is for you. For more experienced collaborators, it is an opportunity to strengthen your collaborations through (re)learning and slowing down alongside others.
We define collaborations broadly to mean working with others who are external to your group or organization. This can range from informal collaborations to formal partnerships, and everything in between. Whether you are running programming in a school or other organizations space to, or writing a grant for a co-led project, or endorsing a rally led by a grassroots group – all of these relationships are collaborations.
A community of practice is a collaborative space where individuals with similar experiences or desires share knowledge, exchange ideas, and support each other. In each workshop, we will have a dedicated community of practice component that will involve pairs or small groups to practice and apply the tools learned.
This workshop series utilizes a community of practice approach to build on shared knowledge and exchange ideas. We strongly encourage participants to have their camera on to participate in pair and small group discussions.
Each workshop will have no more than 40 participants. Each workshop will have space for pair and small group discussions.
Yes. Recordings will be available within 24 hours and participants will have access for 60 days. Note that each workshop includes a community of practice component, in small groups, that will not be recorded.
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