How to centre the needs of participants within community engagement 

Location: Online via Zoom

The first of a three part series of skills events is now on sale! Join us for this session with professional trainer and facilitator, Ray Cooper. 

This session will explore how to meaningfully engage different people and communities in your work, ensuring that it’s not tokenistic, harmful or extractive and creating a valuable experience for everyone involved.

Tuesday 22nd September ; 10:00am - 1:00pm (BST)

Cost: 

• £85/90 for non-Members (includes BIG Membership)
• £50/55 for BIG Members (login before registering)

During the session you will:

• Learn multiple grounding techniques to use in spaces where dysregulation might occur

• Experience how to facilitate group agreements

• Use creative techniques to share knowledge and work collaboratively with a diverse range of people

• Understand how power dynamics, fears and unmet needs might show up in your contexts and work with peers to explore these challenges

• Set commitments for how you want to embed your learning

Your Trainer

Ray is a facilitator and DEI practitioner working with civil society and community/activist groups for the past 15 years to deepen their connections, build understanding, navigate conflict, and create shared commitments.

Alongside their paid work Ray also runs a housing co-operative, provides facilitation and culture development support to Radical Routes (a network of co-ops) and regularly facilitates community organising groups such as OUT prison abolition group, and the Queer Care Collective.

Ray is also a level 4 trained Restorative Justice Facilitator and doing more transformative justice and harm reduction work within their communities.

They also regularly write about the nuances of facilitating different dynamics and groups.