Why Shared Leadership:
A two-hour workshop that defines leadership, power, and some models for sharing leadership and explores two frameworks for why we...
Workshops
GWI workshops aim to catalyze people to build collective systemic change, on a foundation of justice and personal awareness.
We believe Just Transition will be realized through the efforts of individuals who have committed to being on a lifelong journey of learning and action.
We create learning experiences that allow us to collectively deepen our understanding of why our extractive economy is untenable, co-create visions for what else is possible, and hone skills that enable us to move towards building regenerative communities.
Just Transition: Framing Systems Change
Connecting, energizing, and interactive explorations of the Just Transition framework, including an overview of principles and practices, centered on the question: What will it take to build systems centered on care for each other and our shared home?
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Introduction to Democracy at Work
Most of us spend most of our time working. Our workplaces and collaborations can be laboratories for creating conditions for Just Transition.
Good Work Institute offers skills and tools aligned with deeply democratic ways of working together that we can all learn and practice: shared leadership and distributed power, conflict resilience, undoing domination, and consciously working towards social equity and racial justice. When activated, these overlapping priorities result in a profound shift.
Wellbeing for people and the planet entails learning ways of working with – and not against – one another. We call this deep democracy: creating conditions for a wider variety of voices to be heard and for true collaboration to emerge as the norm.
At GWI, we practice deep democracy, and we actively train, facilitate and coach those who are hungry for more generative and equitable ways of working together.
Using Circles to Structure Democratic Work:
A one-hour workshop that draws on GWI’s worker self-directed nonprofit (WSDNP) experience in using circles to organize collaborative work and...
A Glossary of Shared Leadership:
A four-hour introductory overview, with interactive components, of key concepts related to the policies, practices, and cultural shifts needed for...
Democratizing Work: Ways of Sharing Power, Leadership and Decision Making
GWI’s foundational workshop in sharing power, offered in partnership with Co-op Hudson Valley, is an exploration of policies, practices, and...
Conflict Resilience
As we shift to more democratic and cooperative ways of working together, we’ll also need to develop our conflict resilience. We’re bound to encounter differences and tension in our efforts to share power and decision-making. If we can also share skills and tools to navigate these, we can tap into the generative potential of conflict and work through shared dilemmas together. Open to individuals, working groups, organizations and cooperatives, this workshop is offered as an eight-session online series.
Navigating Feedback
Are you ready to dedicate some attention to a fresh approach to your working relationships? In this 8-week workshop, we...
Navigating Conflict: Building Resilience for Your Working Relationships
Are you ready to dedicate some attention to a fresh approach to your working relationships? In this 8-week workshop, we...
Social Equity and Racial Justice
In our commitment to sharing power equitably, there are legacies of unequal power that we can’t ignore. Practicing social equity at work means explicitly developing our awareness of power, privilege and difference , and aligning our awareness with action. We learn to turn away from domination and toward partnership in our communication and relationships. We practice skills and tools aligned with sharing power.
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Upcoming Workshops
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Building on our experiences delivering curriculum to six cohorts of Fellows, we facilitate various programs, from shorter foundational workshops focused on concepts and tools, to longer, experiential offerings that combine cohort-based learning with practice. A partial list of offerings:
- Just Transition Primer is our introductory, interactive workshop that offers a deeper understanding of the Just Transition framework and principles, using video, personal reflection, story sharing, and small group discussion.
- Spaces Intended for Us storytelling workshops spotlight the lived experiences of people across an array of often marginalized identities – whether Latinx, Black or other POC; LGBTQ+; people with accessibility needs; immigrants – to grow awareness and motivate action.
- Radical Mindfulness workshops are rooted in contemplative practices for deeper inner seeing of systems of inequity and for support in acknowledging injustices.
- Navigating Conflict is a multi-week training in nonviolent communication designed for activists and community members to engender embodied self-connection, build capacity to reach out for support, and relate to ourselves and one another with empathy.
- Developing a Social Equity Practice is a 3-day retreat to grapple with power, privilege and difference, and emerge with a clear framework to facilitate individual and organizational awareness of changes needed and ways to work toward them.
- Liberation of the Imagination is an ongoing program area seeking to provide supported spaces of creation in the form of art exhibitions and workshops. As bell hooks says so eloquently, “To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.”
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