Strategies for countering authoritarianism
Across the world, authoritarianism is on the rise—eroding democratic spaces, silencing dissent, and undermining collective action. Now, more than ever, we must build strong, participatory movements that can resist repression and create just alternatives.
The Facilitating Collective Power Lab is a hands-on training designed to equip facilitators, organisers and activists with the skills to cultivate inclusive, participatory spaces where people can strategise, collaborate, and take action together. Hosted by FabRiders, this course will help you:
🔹 Develop facilitation techniques to co-power groups to work collectively
🔹 Strengthen networks of resistance and solidarity
🔹 Build spaces where all voices can be heard— and resist the face of repression
We are offering this Lab twice to accommodate a diversity of time zones:
- March 12th & 13th – 4 pm to 7 pm UTC (check your time zone)
- March 19th & 20th – 10 am to 1 pm UTC (check your time zone)
During this two-day, three-hour-a-day online lab, we will explore the different power domains in which change-makers operate and how to design and facilitate power analysis and strategy sessions to help them move more effectively towards success. We will also explore how to identify, practice, and support “facilitative leadership.” We will also share facilitation best practices that help us ‘walk the walk’. By the end of the workshop, you will have greater expertise in developing community-centric strategies that support inclusive movements and drive real change.
This lab is for people who facilitate charities, advocates, activists, and other movement-builders. Participation in The Session Design Lab before the Facilitating Collective Power Lab is not required, but we highly recommend it.
Our communities of change need people in it who know how to harness our collective power — and this workshop is such a great step in beginning that journey.
Facilitating Collective Power Participant
Participants will also learn how to join and contribute to the diverse network of facilitators behind the development of The Collective Power Playbook.
Has the US Foreign Aid Funding Freeze impacted you? Please apply for a scholarship!
Dirk Slater, with over a quarter of a century of experience facilitating social justice movement building in over forty countries, leads this session.
You can apply for a scholarship for The Facilitating Collective Power Lab.