Events
Facilitate for Freedom
This training lays the groundwork for people leading meetings, supporting decisions, and guiding conversations in social justice work. 2026 is a year shaped by political precarity and heightened pressure for our movements for liberation. As our groups convene to make decisions about tactics, budgets, and plans, we believe that how those meetings are facilitated can have a critical impact on both our outcomes, and the groupâs culture. With skillful facilitation, we can unlock sharper strategy, deeper trust in our groups, and more precise focus in our formations. Our flagship 3-hour online Facilitate for Freedom Training lays [...]
$90
Co-operative Law Summer School
Faculty of Economics and Tourism, Preradoviceva 1 Pula, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)An International Masterclass in Coâoperative Law and Public Policy Summer School dates: Aug 22-28, 2026 Venue: Faculty of Economics and Tourism (FET), Preradoviceva 1 Offered by the International Centre for Co-operative Management and the International Cooperative Alliance in collaboration with the International Cooperative Alliance Cooperative Law Committee and IUS Cooperativum. This course builds links between co-operative law, Co-operative Identity (ICA, 1995), and sustainable development. How are values and principles translated into legal rules and legal practice? What types of rules are fitting, and what may cause âdegenerationâ of co-operative enterprise? How do legal structural elements of co-operatives relate to [...]
$1100 â $1400
Facilitating Decision-Making
Join AORTA, Take Action MN, Third Wave Fund, U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives for a Crash Course on Facilitating Decision Making All across the country, groups of neighbors, comrades, families, volunteers, and organizers are coming together to resist rising authoritarianism. When we gather, we make joint decisions that have the potential to significantly impact the trajectory of our campaigns, and ability to build and sustain power for our movements. How do we move swiftly yet make collective decisions? Join AORTA, Take Action MN, Third Wave Fund, U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives for [...]
$20
Introduction to Mediation and Conflict Work
An online training to learn AORTA's principles of conflict work and build foundational mediation skills. We believe that inhabiting and learning to work with conflict skillfully is a vital, lifelong practice that must be recovered and reintegrated into our communities. Across our movements for liberation, we are witness to the detrimental impacts that untended conflict has on our collective capacity for political rigor, effective action, and nurturing healthy relationships. Militarism has become entrenched as the default and primary conflict response, from the institution of policing pervading all aspects of our daily lives [...]
$90
Open Studios with AORTA
Inspired by the cooperative principle of âCooperation Among Cooperatives,â join AORTA facilitators to dig into core tensions in coops. Calling all fellow cooperatives (and those interested in coops) to join us in our next Open Studios! Inspired by the cooperative principle of âCooperation Among Cooperatives,â join AORTA facilitators to dig into a core tension in coops: âWhat happens when we cannot reach consensus?â Weâll be learning about what this tangle looks like in AORTA and other cooperatives, and swapping possible solutions. Join us for this free, love offering on: Wednesday, September 2nd, [...]
Free
Grant Writing 101: From Readiness to Results
A practical, entry-level, in-person workshop for Montana cooperatives, non-profits, community leaders and beginning grant writers considering pursuing grant funding. Learn from two of the best: Becky Rosenleaf KLJ Engineering Becky Rosenleaf has over 35 years of grant writing experience, securing more than $300 million in discretionary grant funding across nonprofit, government, and infrastructure sectors. Becky brings a practical, no-nonsense approach to helping organizations get organized, get ready, and get funded. Tracy McIntyre Montana Cooperative Development Center (MCDC) & Montana Council of Cooperatives (MCOC) Tracy McIntyre brings 25 years of successful grant writing [...]
$175
Decision Making Facilitation Intensive
5 week intensive training on the nuts and bolts of facilitating effective group decisions with power sharing & social justice at the center. Decision making is often treated as a litmus test for a group's principles. Sometimes a group may theoretically hold values such as sharing power, racial justice, and collective care as central to their work. However, when internal or external pressures impact a group's strategy, safety, or livelihoods, they may find themselves defaulting to decision-making practices that are in contradiction with their values, causing frustration and broken trust amongst the [...]
$125
2026 Worker Co-op Conference
Roxbury Community College 1234 Columbus Ave, Roxbury Crossing, MA, United StatesWe're excited to announce that the 2026 Worker Co-op Conference will be held at Roxbury Community College in Boston, MA! Get ready to join us on September 25th - 26th for new connections, inspiration, and collective learning. In person, you can look forward to: Tours of the local worker co-op and solidarity economy ecosystem Breakout sessions to dig deeper into worker co-op business development, skill-building, networking, advocacy, and more Not able to travel? This year we are encouraging communities to host satellite WCC events to provide an opportunity for people to still [...]
$350
Tidelines: Coaching Cohort for Shared Leadership
Tidelines is a space to build among an intimate cohort of other movement organizations experimenting with and practicing shared leadership. Tidelines is a space for organizations and movement groups ready to get connected to a peer learning space. It is a cohort experience designed to affirm the practices that ensure longevity and resilience for shared leadership amidst rising threats to democratic practice and cooperation. Utilizing individual team and group coaching, storytelling, case studies, and more, we'll explore what shared leadership can accomplish for our movements, our communities, and collective imaginations. We'll surface [...]
$800