Online Facilitation Lab
Online training and facilitation skills for social justice movement builders
Building powerful online spaces
We meet, make decisions, and build skills online more than ever. Since 2017, the Online Facilitation Lab has adapted TFC’s experiential pedagogy to empower virtual movement spaces – making them more creative, inclusive, and effective. Skilled online facilitation strengthens collaboration, deepens engagement, and enhances learning by adapting in-person techniques while leveraging the advantages of digital platforms. Our program evolves alongside social justice organizations, regularly revising and creating new workshops, tools, and direct movement support.
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WORKSHOPS
Our Online Fundamentals workshops cover essential skills for training and facilitating online. These public workshops are offered throughout the year and can be taken in any order. Check our calendar for upcoming workshops and join our newsletter for workshop announcements. We offer sliding scale pricing for all English-language workshops. Spanish language online facilitation workshops are offered through Talleristas por la Justicia. For more options, including past and special topics workshops, see below.
Designing Powerful Online Spaces
From team meetings to training sessions, this workshop gives you the tools and confidence to design online spaces that foster connection, engagement, and impact, while navigating the unique challenges of connecting virtually. (3 hrs, online) Learn more.
Leading for Engagement Online
Develop the practical skills to guide groups effectively in online spaces, whether meetings or trainings. Dive into strategies for reading the group and crafting powerful questions. (3 hrs, online) Learn more.
TOOLS & RESOURCES
Online Facilitation Tool Library
Browse our tool library for a growing collection of online slide templates, tool adaptations, articles, videos, and more. Most tools are available in English and Spanish.
PARTNERSHIPS
Bring TFC’s Online Facilitation Lab to your organization through in-house training, custom workshops, and coaching. If you’re interested in working with us, please visit our partnerships page. Organizations based in Latin America can connect with Talleristas por la Justicia for custom workshops and coaching support.
Private Standard Workshops
We offer our standard 3-hour Online Fundamentals workshops internally for organizations and networks as well as additional workshops on specialized topics. Our team can help you choose the workshop(s) that best fit the needs of your group.
Private workshops available include:
Designing Powerful Online Spaces (3 hrs)
Leading for Engagement Online (3 hrs)
Intro to Facilitating Online Meetings (2 hrs)
When Things Go Wrong Online (2 hrs)
Low Bandwidth Strategies (2 hrs)
Large Online Trainings With Impact (2 hrs)
Hybrid Facilitation Clinic (2 hrs)
Custom Workshops & Coaching
Our trainers can also create custom curriculum around your specific online facilitation needs. For example, we’ve expanded our standard workshops, developed workshops on new topics, adapted workshops for different software, facilitated skill-shares, and co-facilitated virtual convenings with movement partners.
Personalized coaching is available by the hour for individuals or small groups. Get targeted advice on selecting virtual platforms, evaluating online training effectiveness, designing hybrid programs, preparing for critical online meetings, learning or mastering Zoom features, and more.
Jeanne Rewa, Program Co-Coordinator
Jeanne is an experiential trainer, facilitator, and social and environmental justice organizer. She is passionate about helping people to actualize their goals and values in an online space. Jeanne has years of experience building, delivering, and evaluating various types of online training programs for social change, and in training and supporting others to do the same.
Andrea Parra, Program Co-Coordinator
Andrea Parra is a Colombian feminist legal activist and experiential trainer. She’s trained hundreds of people across Latin America and other regions of the world, virtually and in person, including human rights defenders, disability justice activists, indigenous and black groups, queer and trans activists, and reproductive rights coalitions. She has been a human rights lawyer for over 20 years, and has been a Core Trainer at Training for Change since 2014 and loves supporting grassroots groups to become more strategic and effective. She currently leads Talleristas x la Justicia.
Online Training Team
Ada Volkmer
Andrea Parra
Andrew Aguacía
Bhavana Nancherla
Cleopatra Jach
Erika Thorne
Jeanne Rewa
Jenny Muñoz
Kim Huynh
María José Montoya
Matt Guynn
Matthew Armstead
Naomi Long
Nicole Ektnitphong
Nikki Marín Baena
Shreya Shah
Any questions? Contact us.