FACILITATING POWER

Designed for community leaders, organizers, educators, and community-based facilitators, this workshop series offers a deeper dive into the principles, practices, and creative methodologies of Popular Education — a liberatory approach to learning that begins with the knowledge of the people and moves toward collective transformation.

Each session provides practical tools, frameworks, and embodied experiences that strengthen your capacity to design and facilitate powerful learning-to-action processes. Through participatory workshops and a growing community of practice, we’ll cultivate the skills, imagination, and courage needed to move with our communities toward shared liberation.

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Diseñado para líderes comunitarios, organizadores, educadores y facilitadores comunitarios, este ciclo de talleres ofrece una profundización en los principios, prácticas y metodologías creativas de la Educación Popular: un enfoque liberador del aprendizaje que parte del conocimiento de las personas y avanza hacia la transformación colectiva.

Cada sesión proporciona herramientas prácticas, marcos y experiencias que fortalecen tu capacidad para diseñar y facilitar procesos efectivos de aprendizaje a la acción. A través de talleres participativos y una creciente comunidad de práctica, cultivaremos las habilidades, la imaginación y la valentía necesarias para avanzar con nuestras comunidades hacia una liberación compartida.

1 • SEED HARVEST WEAVE: Facilitating Collective Leadership

February 27, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Pacific Time) | CLICK HERE TO REGISTER JUST FOR WORKSHOP #1 AND NOT THE WHOLE SERIES

As outdated systems unravel, we have the opportunity to cultivate more collective ways of being and working together that center the common good. SEED • HARVEST • WEAVE is a framework for facilitating community leadership rooted in critical consciousness — our ability to see and transform the conditions that shape our lives. Through interactive activities and reflection, you will leave with tools to strengthen your facilitation practice and grow community capacity for transformation. This workshop provides foundational knowledge to support designing and facilitating Popular Education processes. 

2 • Transforming the Culture of Community Involvement in Planning and Decision-Making

March 18, 2025 | 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Pacific Time) | RCLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR JUST WORKSHOP #2 AND NOT THE WHOLE SERIES

Join us for an interactive virtual workshop exploring the Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership, a framework developed by Rosa González of Facilitating Power. This tool offers a powerful pathway for shifting from traditional engagement toward true community ownership of solutions and decisions.

This workshop will highlight the unique and interconnected roles of community-based organizations, local government staff and elected officials, philanthropic partners, and third-party facilitators in cultivating community leadership and transforming decision-making processes. Together, we will explore how the Spectrum can help:

• Acknowledge and disrupt the systemic marginalization embedded in current structures
• Advance a clear vision for racial justice, inclusion, and community ownership
• Guide a developmental process for increasing community capacity and reducing institutional barriers
• Assess progress toward authentic, equitable participation and shared governance

We will leave with a deeper understanding of how to use the Spectrum to support community-driven solutions and build stronger, more equitable local democracies.

Facilitating Power is also accepting applications for participation in a cohort to become a certified facilitator of processes to operationalize the Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership. Click here for more information

3 • Designing a Popular Education Learning to Action Process

April 17, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Pacific Time) | CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR JUST WORKSHOP #3 AND NOT THE WHOLE SERIES

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll dive into the nuts and bolts of creating a learning-to-action agenda rooted in the principles and practices of Popular Education. You will gain practical tools for designing sessions that draw on the wisdom of the group, use creative and participatory methods for co-learning, and translate insights into collective, inspired action.If you're looking to design community workshops, campaign trainings, or even an organizational retreat, this session will help you design for transformation. 

4 • Integrating Storytelling into Group Process

June 5, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Pacific Time) | CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR JUST WORKSHOP #4 AND NOT THE ENTIRE SERIES

Our lived experiences carry vital wisdom and can help us see and understand systemic patterns. In this workshop, we’ll explore how storytelling can deepen reflection, connection, and critical consciousness within group processes. You will gain concrete methods for weaving personal and collective narratives into facilitation — using story as a method for relationship-building and a starting point for shared analysis of the issues affecting our communities. Together, we’ll tap into the power of story to transform learning spaces into sites of solidarity and inspire communities toward informed, collective action. 

5 • Creating Space for Genuine Dialogue

July 10, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Pacific Time) | CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR JUST WORKSHOP #5 AND NOT THE ENTIRE SERIES

Dialogue is at the heart of Popular Education and the cultivation of critical consciousness. In true dialogue, everyone participates as equals, sharing authentically in search of mutual understanding. This workshop offers exercises and facilitation practices for creating spaces where dialogue can flourish, even amid difference and tension. Participants will explore how to invite multiple truths, and guide conversations that help groups to make sense of our lived experiences — clearing a path toward collective insight and transformative action. This workshop is part of Facilitating Power's Popular Education workshop series.

6 • Facilitating Community Alignment

August 7, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Pacific Time) | CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR JUST WORKSHOP #6 AND NOT THE ENTIRE SERIES

This workshop offers practical tools, frameworks, and facilitation approaches for building genuine consensus, leaning into group tensions, and developing shared analysis that supports alignment on shared solutions. Through examples and participatory practice, we’ll demystify the process of consensus-building and strengthen our capacity to facilitate alignment that honors both unity and diversity. This workshop is part of Facilitating Power's Popular Education workshop series.  

7 • Creative Methodologies for Understanding and Building Liberatory Power

September 11, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Pacific Time) | CLICK HERE TO REGISTER JUST FOR WORKSHOP #7 AND NOT THE ENTIRE SERIES

This workshop explores creative methodologies — including art, movement, storytelling, and participatory analysis — as tools for understanding and building liberatory power. Participants will engage in experiential activities that reveal how creativity can deepen critical consciousness, strengthen community bonds, and open pathways toward our collective capacity to affect change and transformation. This workshop is part of Facilitating Power's Popular Education workshop series.

8 • Facilitating Popular Education Methods in Virtual Spaces

November 20, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Pacific Time) | CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR JUST WORKSHOP #8 AND NOT THE ENTIRE SERIES

How can we hold the spirit of Popular Education — participatory, relational, and rooted in collective wisdom — in virtual spaces? This workshop explores practical tools and creative facilitation approaches for designing engaging online learning experiences. Together, we’ll practice techniques that transform virtual sessions into vibrant spaces for shared learning, critical reflection, and community action. This workshop is part of Facilitating Power's Popular Education workshop series.

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1 • SEMBRAR COSECHAR TEJER: Facilitando el liderazgo colectivo

27 de febrero de 2025 | 10:00 - 12:30 (hora del Pacífico) | HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA INSCRIBIRSE SOLO EN EL TALLER N.° 1 Y NO EN LA SERIE COMPLETA

A medida que los sistemas obsoletos se desmoronan, tenemos la oportunidad de cultivar formas más colectivas de ser y trabajar juntos, centradas en el bien común. SEMBRAR • COSECHAR • TEJER es un marco para facilitar el liderazgo comunitario basado en la conciencia crítica: nuestra capacidad de observar y transformar las condiciones que dan forma a nuestras vidas. Mediante actividades interactivas y reflexión, adquirirás herramientas para fortalecer tu práctica de facilitación y desarrollar la capacidad de transformación de la comunidad. Este taller forma parte de la serie de talleres de Educación Popular de Facilitating Power y proporciona conocimientos fundamentales para diseñar y facilitar procesos de Educación Popular.

2 • Transformar la cultura de la participación comunitaria en la planificación y la toma de decisiones

18 de marzo de 2026 | 1:30 - 4:00 (hora del Pacífico) | HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA INSCRIBIRSE SOLO EN EL TALLER N.° 2 Y NO EN LA SERIE COMPLETA

Únase a nosotros en un taller virtual interactivo para explorar el Espectro de la Participación Comunitaria y la Apropiación, un marco desarrollado por Rosa González de Facilitating Power. Esta herramienta ofrece una vía eficaz para transitar de la participación tradicional hacia una verdadera apropiación comunitaria de las soluciones y decisiones.

Este taller destacará los roles únicos e interconectados de las organizaciones comunitarias, el personal del gobierno local y los funcionarios electos, los socios filantrópicos y los facilitadores externos en el desarrollo del liderazgo comunitario y la transformación de los procesos de toma de decisiones. Juntos, exploraremos cómo el Espectro puede ayudar a:

• Reconocer y transformar la marginación sistémica arraigada en las estructuras actuales.
• Impulsar una visión clara de justicia racial, inclusión y apropiación comunitaria.
• Guiar un proceso de desarrollo para aumentar la capacidad comunitaria y reducir las barreras institucionales.
• Evaluar el progreso hacia una participación auténtica y equitativa y una gobernanza compartida.

Al finalizar, comprenderemos mejor cómo utilizar el Espectro para apoyar soluciones impulsadas por la comunidad y construir democracias locales más fuertes y equitativas. Facilitating Power también acepta solicitudes para participar en un programa para convertirse en facilitador certificado de procesos que permitan operacionalizar el espectro de participación comunitaria y apropiación. Haga clic aquí para obtener más información.

3 • Diseñar un proceso de aprendizaje para la acción en la educación popular

17 de abril de 2026 | 10:00 - 12:30 (hora del Pacífico) | HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA INSCRIBIRSE SOLO EN EL TALLER N.° 3 Y NO EN LA SERIE COMPLETA

4 • Integración de la narración de historias en el proceso grupal

5 de junio de 2026 | 10:00 - 12:30 (hora del Pacífico) | HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA INSCRIBIRSE SOLO EN EL TALLER N.° 3 Y NO EN LA SERIE COMPLETA

5 • Creación de espacio para el diálogo genuino

10 de julio de 2026 | 10:00 - 12:30 (hora del Pacífico) | HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA INSCRIBIRSE SOLO EN EL TALLER N.° 3 Y NO EN LA SERIE COMPLETA

6 • Facilitar la alineación comunitaria

7 de agosto de 2026 | 10:00 - 12:30 (hora del Pacífico) | HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA INSCRIBIRSE SOLO EN EL TALLER N.° 3 Y NO EN LA SERIE COMPLETA

7 • Metodologías creativas para comprender y construir el poder liberador

11 de septiembre de 2026 | 10:00 - 12:30 (hora del Pacífico) | HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA INSCRIBIRSE SOLO EN EL TALLER N.° 3 Y NO EN LA SERIE COMPLETA

Este taller explora metodologías creativas —como el arte, el movimiento, la narración y el análisis participativo— como herramientas para comprender y construir un poder liberador. Los participantes realizarán actividades experienciales que revelarán cómo la creatividad puede profundizar la conciencia crítica, fortalecer los lazos comunitarios y abrir caminos hacia nuestra capacidad colectiva para generar cambios y transformaciones. Este taller forma parte del ciclo de talleres de Educación Popular de Facilitating Power.

8 • Los métodos de educación popular en espacios virtuales

20 de noviembre de 2026 | 10:00 - 12:30 (hora del Pacífico) | HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA INSCRIBIRSE SOLO EN EL TALLER N.° 3 Y NO EN LA SERIE COMPLETA