MODULE FOUR: Birthing the New – Dialogue with the World:

While deepening their skills as facilitators of processes and meetings, participants find their voice, owning their responsibility to stand up and speak authentically, and recognising their own styles of leadership. Learning to use different styles of collective leadership in different situations and developing presentation, mediation and negotiation skills are important here.  How can our project teams work with emerging processes, self-organising structures and roles that work joyfully and effectively?  Best practices and innovations that build resilience and support a holistically sustainable way of living (in the areas of economy, ecology, the social and the cultural) are incorporated here.

 
Key Themes:
 
I. Being able to stand up and speak, leadership, presentation skills, finding your voice, negotiation skills
 
We. Collective action: fundraising, PR-work
 
World.  Understanding local and global economy, allies and networks
 
 
Learning Outcomes
 
I. Participants will:
  • be more confident in public speaking
  • have an experience of different leading styles and know how and when to apply them
 
We. Participants will have:
  • been introduced to models of collective action
  • increased their ability to present through different mediums with and styles
  • built their capacity to use social networking
  • an understanding of different ways to fundraise (e.g. Crowd Funding)
 
World.  Participants will have:
  • explored the difference of local and global economies and have an understanding of scale
  • built some networking capacity and have knowledge of Transition and GEN networks   
 
Assignment for Participants: To work with questions around commitment and changing roles in their project teams. What needs to happen for their projects to become holistically sustainable? What would make it more resilient?