Quarterly Leadership Training
NBOP’s training sessions are offered in a Popular Education, or education for critical consciousness framework. They are designed to be interactive and empower people who feel socially and politically marginalized to assume responsibility for their own leadership to affect social change and the material conditions of their lives. By offering a variable schedule for working-class folks, childcare, and interpretation, these sessions will be as accessible as possible. Training will be facilitated by a mixture of values-aligned leaders, staff, and community partners. Each topic below was selected to train leaders to develop the grassroots organizing skills that are essential to build power towards liberation and a just transition.
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These trainings are open to all NBOP members and staff.
April Training Series: Pop-Ed, Power, and Coalition
Pop Education & Facilitation
Wednesday, April 16 • 5:30pm-8pm
Power & Root Cause Analysis
Saturday, April 19 • 11am-2:30pm
Coalition Building
Saturday, April 26 • 11am-2:30pm
May Training Series: Conflict and the 'Organizing Conversation'
Conflict Resolution
Wednesday, May 14 • 5:30pm-8pm
Intersectionality
Saturday, May 17 • 11am-2:30pm
The Organizing Conversation
Saturday, May 24 • 11am-2:30pm
September Training Series: Story of Self, Story of Us
1:1s & Story of Self
Wednesday, September 17 • 5:30pm-8pm
Media Literacy
Saturday, September 20 • 11am-2:30pm
Power Mapping
Saturday, September 27 • 11am-2:30pm
October Training Series: Strategy and Building Campaigns
Organizing Tactics
Wednesday, October 15 • 5:30pm-8pm
Campaign Planning
Saturday, October 18 • 11am-2:30pm
Issues & Actions
Saturday, October 25 • 11am-2:30pm
8 Core Organizing Skills
NBOP Theory of Change
Understand and apply NBOP’s theory of change. Why organize? Understand the difference between service, advocacy, and organizing. Learn why we organize people and money.
Power Analysis
Understand the role of self interest, power, and structural oppression in developing organizing strategies. How we turn what we have into what we need.
Creating Structure
Learn popular education and facilitation, develop teams, create an interactive agenda, run a meeting, task proposition, accountability, unity, inclusion/exclusion.
Framing Issues
In a polycrisis, where do we start? Learn how to Identify problems and cut issues. This is how we win.
The Story of Us
Why does public narrative matter? Learn to tell your story, the story of us and the story of now in connection to issues and organizing strategies.
Organizing and Relationships
Recruit, inspire, and build relationships with people rooted in action via 1:1's, persuasion, proposition or the Rap.
Restorative Justice
Identify boundaries, understand consent, and feminist organizing for yourself and your team. Steward conflict with a restorative justice framework in the context of self governance. If we aren’t ready to govern, we aren’t ready to win.
Campaign Planning
The ability to map power, develop campaign strategy based upon the issues, understand the stages of a campaign. Metrics in action- for accountability, motivation and learning.