Training Type: Webinar

Have you had concerns about a team project and didn’t share it with others? Or been part of a team where you couldn’t speak up with questions? These self-protective behaviors help us manage others’ perceptions of us. No one wants to look ignorant, incompetent, intrusive or negative. Staying quiet and hoping someone else says something is an effective strategy to avoid shame and blame. But withholding your voice can have significant negative consequences for the team. It deprives the team of the full range of the team members’ knowledge, skill, and experience and makes it less likely that the team will learn and achieve its purpose.
Fortunately, empirical research has identified a set of behaviors that increase psychological safety—a shared belief that a team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking—and make it more likely that people will contribute. Join this 90-minute interactive workshop, guest hosted by PowerLabs, to learn the actions you can take to increase psychological safety in your teams. This isn't a passive webinar. Please join the call ready to participate in small group discussions.

Relational organizing is a crucial aspect of building strong coalitions and sustained community power. On Thursday, September 29th, the Climate Advocacy Lab is hosting the third session in our Northeast regional training arc, Power of Relational Organizing. This hour-long training will focus on how to relationally organize to build transformative relationships, transactional organizing mistakes to avoid, relational organizing do’s and don’ts, and best practices for 1:1’s and building long-standing community.

How do we move potential new supporters from names on a list to active participants in our campaigns? More importantly, how can we help them build a sense of belonging, belief, and efficacy that keeps them engaged for the weeks and months to come?
Join Sunrise Movement, the Movement Cooperative, and the Climate Advocacy Lab as we share results from two experiments that expand the advocate’s toolbox on how to reach potential supporters and prepare them for long-term engagement.
You will learn:

How Sunrise Movement has developed and refined its Welcome Series for recruiting and retaining new supporters
How to meet new supporters where they are in terms of building shared identity and tapping into collective efficacy
How ringless voicemail drops can provide an additional mode of contact to supporters in a post-10DLC world

Understanding how to captivate your organizational audience is vital for building a volunteer base that is motivated to take action and stay involved. On Tuesday, September 27th, the Climate Advocacy Lab is hosting the third session in our 6-part Communications and Narrative training arc, Media 101: How to captivate your audience. This session will focus on understanding who your organizational audience is, the importance of messaging and framing, the pitfalls of climate communications, and the best practices for captivating your audience to build power and scale up your base. 
 

A strong communications plan is critical for building power: persuading, recruiting, activating, and supporting sustained action-taking among supporters as well as shifting the public conversation on climate and energy issues. This training from the Lab will cover: —Climate communication evidence-based best practices

The key aspects of an audience-centered strategic communications plan
Coordinating multi-channel communications under a strategic goal
Time to workshop your communications plans

On Thursday, September 15, the Climate Advocacy Lab is hosting the second training in our North East Training Arc, Elements of a successful campaign strategy. This training will focus on the importance of building a strong campaign strategy and take a look at the relationship between a campaign strategy and campaign goals. We will go over the different elements of a campaign strategy and look at case studies of past-campaigns that we can learn from to bring key strategic vision to our organizations and communities. 

Are you new to the Lab, or maybe looking for a refresher? Looking to utilize the Lab more effectively to achieve greater impacts in your climate advocacy work? Join us for a hands-on webinar where you'll learn how to work smarter – not (just) harder – through the Climate Advocacy Lab!

On Thursday, August 25, the Climate Advocacy Lab is hosting the first training in our New England Training Arc, Organizing 101. After speaking with advocates and organizers in the North East region, we built a 6 part training series based on their needs. This training will focus on refreshing and refining organizing tactics and skills used to build community and power on the ground. We will go over what organizing is, why organizing is important, tips for organizing structure, how to create your theory of change and story for your organization, and the evidence behind organizing.
This is a 1 hour long call that is part of a 6 part series focusing on needs voiced by advocates in the North East region of the so-called United States. Prioritizing Lab members from the North East.

On Thursday, August 11th, the Climate Advocacy Lab is hosting the first training in our Narrative and Communications Training Arc. The Developing your narrative strategy training will focus on defining why a narrative is so important for change and what role it plays in the movement, how to develop a narrative strategy for yourself and your organization, and make space to think through how we can bring back these learnings to your organization to grow your collective narrative!

Are you new to the Lab, or maybe looking for a refresher? Looking to utilize the Lab more effectively to achieve greater impacts in your climate advocacy work? Join us for a hands-on webinar where you'll learn how to work smarter – not (just) harder – through the Climate Advocacy Lab!