[SessionDesign] Strategies for Countering Authoritarianism, The Facilitating Collective Power Lab, Online, March

[Dirk Slater]

Hello Session Designers,

This is just a reminder that our cohort will begin next week at times suitable for the Americas. Thank you to those who have already registered.

Whenever we gather, it’s an opportunity for us to strengthen solidarity against prevalent divisive forces. 

The Facilitating Collective Power Lab will help you:

🔹 Enhance facilitation techniques to dismantle knowledge hierarchies and build spaces where all voices can be heard and meaningfully contribute
🔹 Analyse and address the power dynamics in the room and the external power domains that those we convene are strategizing to shift.
🔹 Identify, support and practice Facilitative Leadership 

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 <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=The+Facilitating+Collective+Power+Lab%2C+Mar+25+PM+Edition&iso=20250305T16&p1=1440&ah=3>)
March 19th & 20th - 10 am to 1 pm UTC (check your time zone <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=The+Facilitating+Collective+Power+Lab&iso=20250319T10&p1=1440&ah=3>)

Register now as we have limited space at: https://www.fabriders.net/facilitating-collective-power/



Note: Registration costs £240, but we are pleased to offer members of this network a 25% discount. Select your preferred time and date, click the green “next” button to register, and enter the promo code FabRiders25 when prompted. The discount will be applied automatically.

Scholarships are available for anyone facing hardship due to the US Foreign Aid Freeze and Stop Work Order or if the registration fee poses a barrier to participation. See: https://www.fabriders.net/scholarship/

Hope you can make it,

- dirk


dirk slater
FabRiders 
www.fabriders.net
Signal: FabRider.12
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Book a time to chin wag with dirk: https://calendar.app.google/cm9bjytUgxJg8gDa7




> On 25 Feb 2025, at 10:21, Dirk Slater <dirk at fabriders.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello Session Designers,
> 
> Last week, we wrapped up Holding Space in Uncertain Times, which was such an honour for me to run. I’m doing my best to provide labs that speak to this moment. I hope I might entice you to attend a new edition of The Facilitating Collective Power Lab: 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 copower with groups to work collectively
> 🔹 Strengthen networks of resistance and solidarity
> 🔹 Build spaces where all voices can be heard—and resist 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 <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=The+Facilitating+Collective+Power+Lab%2C+Mar+25+PM+Edition&iso=20250305T16&p1=1440&ah=3>)
> March 19th & 20th - 10 am to 1 pm UTC (check your time zone <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=The+Facilitating+Collective+Power+Lab&iso=20250319T10&p1=1440&ah=3>)
> 
> Register now as we have limited space at: https://www.fabriders.net/facilitating-collective-power/
> 
> Note: Registration costs £240, but we are pleased to offer members of this network a 25% discount. Select your preferred time and date, click the green “next” button to register, and enter the promo code FabRiders25 when prompted. The discount will be applied automatically.
> 
> Scholarships are available for anyone facing hardship due to the US Foreign Aid Freeze and Stop Work Order or if the registration fee poses a barrier to participation. 
> 
> Let me know,
> 
> - dirk
> 
> 
> dirk slater
> FabRiders 
> www.fabriders.net
> Signal: FabRider.12
> Get our newsletter The FabUpdate: https://www.fabriders.net/get-email/ 
> Help us build the Collective Power Playbook at www.collectivepower.net
> Book a time to chin wag with dirk: https://calendar.app.google/cm9bjytUgxJg8gDa7
> 
> 
> 
> 
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