02/11/21 Session: Facilitators Academy Cohort #1

Welcome to the Spring 2021 flagship class of our Facilitators Academy course! This course is designed to teach an effective model for community impact and capacity building. The goals involve training facilitators for deep dialogue, healing, and effective collaborative decision making between and within community organizing spaces to accelerate impact. Throughout, we will do deep dives into sometimes complex topics and explore opportunities to consider ways in which the topics intersect with your own leadership journey. Class #1 touches on Land Acknowledgements, Big Idea #1 – The Tale of Two Paradigms: Myopia & Mutualism, Transformative Space Intentions and Accountability. Student Learning Outcomes 👇🏽 By the successful completion of this course, you will: ✅ Have working knowledge of the literature and thought leaders that contribute to foundational principles and practices of collaboration, equity, and facilitation ✅ Design and facilitate equity centered spaces of community care, peer support and learning ✅ Design and facilitate effective collaborative decision making ✅ Train others 💻 Swell Collective Website: https://swellcollective.org 📚 Buy our course reading materials: https://bookshop.org/lists/facilitators-academy _____________ Timestamps 0:00 Check-in 6:05 Welcome/Ancestral Lands Activity/ Syllabus Intro 11:19 Tour of Miro 13:03 Day 1 and Course Overview/ Expectation 17:34 Miro Functionality Con’t 21:01 Importance of Digital Tools 23:12 Small-Group break out 48:30 Small-Group Recap 1:03:58 Ancestral Lands Map/ Miro zoom functionality 1:06:36 Tech Struggles 1:10:06 Check-in round recap 1:25:49 Return From break/ Check-in recap 1:31:09 Feedback on the check-in process 1:45:00 Game Activity 2:00:00 Game Activity break down 2:04:44 Big Idea #1 and Discussion 2:22:00 Transformative Space Intentions 2:23:04 Reviewing Syllabus