Practicing Freedom provides participatory, fun and creative processes designed to engage groups in meeting their objectives dynamically and collaboratively.
Facilitation: We provide tailored facilitation for your meetings, staff retreats, conferences, or classrooms in which we create the conditions for your group to progress in the direction in wants to, and have fun. What is unique about Practicing Freedom is that we are grounded in the principles of popular education. This means we start where the group is at, and strive to create spaces where each participant is respected, heard and can bring their ideas freely through dialogue, interactive games, and if you so choose, theater and hands on arts.
We also train people how to facilitate. For examples of workshops for facilitators, check out the Popular Education page
Examples of past work:
- Facilitation of the 2012 Energy Action Coalition Council Meeting, focusing on campaign strategy and group process
- Facilitation of Rainforest Action Network Staff Retreats, Anti-Oppression workshops, Story Based Strategy Process
- Facilitation of the YES JAMs: World Youth Leadership JAM 2000, Ghana Youth Leadership JAM 2000, Latin American JAMs in 2003 and 2007
- Facilitation of the youth program at the 2002 Alchemy of Peacebuilding Conference
Curriculum design: Have a training, course, or process to facilitate and want support in making them more interactive, participatory, engaging? Starting from objectives, we can either write, or support you in writing lesson plan/s and a learning sequence to support those objectives.
Example of curriculum:
- ClimateActionCurriculum
- Almost everything on Rainforest Action Networks’s Education Wiki:
Coaching: Support for each step of the educational process. This is like a long term facilitation training – while you do all the facilitating, we can help you design lessons, establish a positive learning environment with your participants, and turn problems that arise into opportunities
Coming up
UPCOMING EVENTSCurrently none scheduled
PAST EVENTS
April 28, 6:30 PM PRESENTATION: Action Research Community Reception and Recognition, AERA conference. In the Grand Ballroom East, Grand Hyatt, San Francisco
Oct 6,7 WORKSHOP: Theater of the Oppressed 101 at the Center for Political Education, San Francisco. A follow up to Popular Education 101.
May 16,23 WORKSHOP: Participatory Action Research for educators and organizers at the Center for Political Education, San Francisco. Registration is open here: www.politicaleducation.org
June 3 WORKSHOP: From Forum to Action; Participatory Action Research grounded in Theater of the Oppressed At the Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed Conference, Berkeley. Register here: http://www.ptoweb.org/
dates tbd, 11:00-5:00 April 28-31 WORKSHOP: "Practices in Youth-Led and Theater-Based Participatory Action Research" & PRESENTATION: Youth-Led Action Research to Heal the Streets 9th Annual Action Research Conference at the UCSD’s School of Leadership and Education Sciences San Diego, CA
March 28-31 WORKSHOP: "Exploring the Intersections of Whiteness and Femaleness" White Privilege Conference Albuquerque, NM
Feb 21, 6:00-9:00pm White Noise Dialogue to explore why so many people socialized as white and female are in helping professions. San Francisco.
Feb 27 & March 3, 11:00-5:00 WORKSHOP: Popular Education 101: Theories and Practices for organizers. At the Center for Political Education, San Francisco. A remixed and re-offered version of Paulo Freire 101 offered last Spring.
Oct 15, 10:30-12:00 Neighborhood Safety Summit, Laney College, Oakland. Last year's Heal the Streets youth fellows and OPD officers will talk about their mistrust of each other, and what to do about it.
Oct 18, 6:00-9:00 White Noise monthly dialogue, San Francisco. People socialized as both white and female talk about Cultural Appropriation www.conspireforchange.org
July 21 Chicago, IL, PTO conference Workshop: Harvesting Knowledge for Collective Action: Youth-Led Participatory Action Research at the Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed Conference
July 23, 24, 30, 31 @ 4pm San Juan Bautista, El Teatro Campesino Free Performance: Popol Vuh, Heart of Heaven
August 4-7, 2011 Portland, OR, Aero Conference 2 Workshops: Participatory Theater for Educators & Youth-Adult Partnerships: Practicing Youth-Led Participatory Action Research
September 3, 4, 5 @ 1pm San Juan Bautista, El Teatro Campesino Free Performance:Popol Vuh: Heart of Heaven, Seven Macaw & the Magic Twins
