Running Great Workshops

Tripod's Running Great Workshops will help you build skills and gather tools for excellent and participatory workshops. This training is open to anyone who wants to take their training skills to the next level, particularly those engaged in social change work - including NGO staff, community organisers, campaigners and more.

Join us to transform your training approach and contribute to building a just and equitable world.

Training Dates:

Friday November 8th (9:30-17:00) & Saturday November 9th (9:30-17:00)

Please note that this training consists of two parts, and we ask that you commit to attending both days. This ensures a consistent learning environment, as each section builds on the previous one, tailored to meet the evolving needs of the participants.

Location:

St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church

Our approach

Experience a participatory and engaging learning journey informed by Tripod's intersectional values and direct education approach. Be ready to actively engage in activities and learn not only from our facilitation team but also from fellow participants. We firmly believe in learning-by-doing and will support you in reflecting on your facilitation and training experiences, identifying your learning goals, and exploring popular education methodologies to put into practice. You'll have plenty of opportunities for practice and feedback and to address specific questions and challenges.

We will cover:

• Principles and tools for designing experiential learning spaces
• Orientation & qualities of engaging facilitation
• Skills-practice for leading participatory exercises
• Navigating power dynamics in workshops
• Creating supportive and inclusive learning environments

Accessibility

Tripod is committed to ensuring our trainings are accessible to a wide range of participants. The venue is wheelchair accessible. We will use a mixture of written and verbal content, and share resources and notes in written form after the sessions. We can share some content beforehand on request. Please let us know about any access requests when registering.

On the Day:

• We will provide tea and coffee, with access to hot and cold water taps.
• Please bring your own lunch or plan to purchase food in the local area.

Exchange

To make our trainings affordable for everyone, Tripod uses a sliding scale for fees. Organisations and individuals who can pay more help us offer these trainings to grassrootsgroups at little to no cost.

Tickets are available at three rated tiers: 'Supported', 'Exchange', 'Nurture' & 'Redistribution'. More about each ticket tier & how to assess your financial situation is available when booking your ticket.

About Tripod: Training for Creative Social Action

Tripod builds the power of social movements tackling the root causes of injustice in Scotland and beyond. As a collective of facilitators and educators, we connect people and develop skills to embody the liberated futures we’re fighting for. We seed active solidarity and strengthen strategic collaboration within and across movements.We offer training, meeting facilitation and conflict mediation to support groups to work in better alignment with their visions and values.

For more info about our approaches and other work visit our website tripodtraining.org

About the trainers:

Venus (she/her) - Co-Director

Venus has a background in facilitation, training and project coordination. From a young age, Venus was inspired by her family’s activism in Sudan and has been involved in working to contribute to the social change in Sudan. She worked and volunteered with human rights and development charities in Sudan, the Netherlands and the UK. Venus’ activism focuses on advocating for social justice and change through knowledge and meaningful participation. She is passionate about working with refugees, migrants and asylum seekers especially around identity and mental health and gets great pleasure from supporting people with lived experience of the UK immigration system in their journeys to reignite their power & fight structural racism and other systems of oppression at personal and professional levels in the UK.

Aoife (they/them) - Co-Director

Aoife is a trainer, facilitator and project coordinator, with a background in science, feminist organising, campaigns for reproductive justice, queer liberation and climate justice. Having participated in various kinds of organising groups and contexts they’re fascinated by the ways in which we can counter wider injustice and transform our ways of working from the small scale and create effective, subversive, dynamic and fulfilling movement spaces. Aoife can be found baking, knitting, and reading YA & sci-fi.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church, 14 Johnston Terrace, Edinburgh, United Kingdom