Training sessions are designed to help increase your ability to win the changes you want in your community. Sessions are structured as an open collaborative conversation where we explore your vision, campaign goals, strategy, tactics, messaging, and other dynamics in your environment that may impact your efforts. Together we help you articulate, refine, and plan your next steps. With these stronger skills, you can be more effective in your efforts. Sessions are typically one hour and one-on-one, but can also be done with a small group of the client’s collaborators. 

Sometimes people come in knowing what guidance they are looking for, and have lots to say about their situation and the hurdles they face. In those sessions, they lay it all out at the start and then together we wrestle through their situation to help shape it into concrete plans and next steps.

Other people find it harder to get started, so I’ll ask questions about what their overall hope for their community is, what types of potential changes they feel most excited about, and what type of work they are most open to and interested in. Each statement the person makes helps us work together to translate an overall vision into a set of goals and an outline of a campaign that they can take on.

Over the course of a session, a person refines existing ideas, learns about other strategies and tactics they can use to help advance their cause, and gain greater clarity and confidence in what they are doing.

A session may focus on a single issue they are grappling with in their campaign, like volunteer engagement or how to prepare for a sit-down meeting with a decision-maker. Or a session may cover charting an entire multi-month campaign arc. Sessions are a space for people to get the support they need to solve the problems they would like to work on.

As the session wraps up, we reaffirm the various lessons and plans discussed, and then check whether the person wants a follow-up session (and, if so, when). Sessions can be one-off or can continue on a weekly or monthly basis as needed.