A companion to our Legal Cafes, Solidari-Tea Time provides opportunities for solidarity economy movement organizations to get advice, coaching and support with challenges you are experiencing on your organizational development journey.

• Are you having trouble making decisions together? 
• Do you need support sharing work more effectively? 
• Are you having a hard time bringing in new members to your organization? 
• Are experienced members struggling to adapt to your new ways of working under shared leadership? 
• Are you experiencing conflict as you encounter growing pains? 
• Are you wondering what your next steps are as you transition to shared leadership?

You are not alone!  And we’re here to help.

Building organizations that align with our values of justice, shared leadership, and participatory democracy is challenging.  Bring your questions, challenges, and stumbling blocks to Solidari-Tea Time, and get support from consultants and practitioners experienced in building worker self-directed nonprofits, cooperatives, and other organizations practicing liberatory values.

Can you do it?  Assess your Organizational Capacity for Transitioning to Shared Leadership

Why is transitioning to shared leadership easier for some organizations than others? In the first training in the series, Hope will guide us through a checklist of variables impacting organizational capacity for the transition to shared leadership. Using specific examples, the training will consider questions around sequencing your transition and explore especially tricky challenges for nonprofits, including funder relations and navigating the role of the Board. Resources offered will include a self-assessment tool to bring back to your team.

Part one of our Microtraining Trio: Transitioning to Shared Leadership

This is a three-part series of short (30 minute), participatory trainings for organizations considering the transition to shared leadership. Training topics include assessing organizational capacity (September 30), identifying and shifting power (October 21), and navigating organizational culture shifts (Nov 18). People are encouraged to show up with their organizational team, and will be invited to take steps between each session to deepen their exploration of building shared leadership.  Join one, two, or all three! 

Facilitated by attorney Hope Mohr, Fellow with the Sustainable Economies Law Center and Co-leader of the Artist Legal Cafe. Mohr co-stewarded the transition of the nonprofit that she founded and has since supported dozens of mission-driven organizations on the shared leadership journey.  

Participatory Decision-Making at Every Step

For groups to thrive under stress and solve complex problems, we need to strengthen our ability to integrate divergent points of view, navigate unspoken and structural power dynamics, and celebrate both our different processing and communication styles and the experiences that influence our views. When we do this well, we create honest, transparent and participatory decision-making processes that produce more effective and durable decisions! 

Join Nonprofit Democracy Network collaborator Jenny Leis to demystify the work of cultivating strong, useful participation in complex group decisions.  Through a colorful, visual experience, we will walk through the 8 steps of any decision making journey, and identify strategies to make each step more participatory. Come prepared to workshop a decision your group is trying to make, and leave with:

• A colorful and useful visual map of the journey of decision-making and what shapes it

• An in-depth handout explaining the “8 steps of decision-making” framework with corresponding tools for increased participation in each step

• A few key tools that you will practice in the workshop to apply immediately

• Reflection about your organization’s decision-making process

Upon registration, participants will receive some optional prep work and resources to review to make the best use of our workshop time.

So you want to try? Identifying and Shifting Power through Power-Mapping 

Organizational power is held in many different ways within an organization. The second training in the series will cover different approaches to identifying and distributing power in specific organizational areas, from programming to budgeting to funder relations. Hope will  talk about navigating the potential relational tensions in the practice of distributing power and tips for creating a meaningful container to hold this kind of conversation.

Part two of our Microtraining Trio: Transitioning to Shared Leadership

This is a three-part series of short (30 minute), participatory trainings for organizations considering the transition to shared leadership. Training topics include assessing organizational capacity (September 30), identifying and shifting power (October 21), and navigating organizational culture shifts (Nov 18). People are encouraged to show up with their organizational team, and will be invited to take steps between each session to deepen their exploration of building shared leadership.  Join one, two, or all three! 

Facilitated by attorney Hope Mohr, Fellow with the Sustainable Economies Law Center and Co-leader of the Artist Legal Cafe. Mohr co-stewarded the transition of the nonprofit that she founded and has since supported dozens of mission-driven organizations on the shared leadership journey.  

A companion to our Legal Cafes, Solidari-Tea Time provides opportunities for solidarity economy movement organizations to get advice, coaching and support with challenges you are experiencing on your organizational development journey.

• Are you having trouble making decisions together? 
• Do you need support sharing work more effectively? 
• Are you having a hard time bringing in new members to your organization? 
• Are experienced members struggling to adapt to your new ways of working under shared leadership? 
• Are you experiencing conflict as you encounter growing pains? 
• Are you wondering what your next steps are as you transition to shared leadership?

You are not alone!  And we’re here to help.

Building organizations that align with our values of justice, shared leadership, and participatory democracy is challenging.  Bring your questions, challenges, and stumbling blocks to Solidari-Tea Time, and get support from consultants and practitioners experienced in building worker self-directed nonprofits, cooperatives, and other organizations practicing liberatory values.

So you're on the path? Seven Organizational Culture Shifts on the way to Shared Leadership 

Organizational change work is both structural and cultural. The third and final training in this series will cover the culture shifts associated with an organizational transition to shared leadership, including shifting team relationships to time, efficiency, process, and roles.  Participants will have time to identify and unpack the culture shifts most relevant to their organization and Hope will offer resources for navigating these processes as they unfold over time.

Part three of our Microtraining Trio: Transitioning to Shared Leadership

This is a three-part series of short (30 minute), participatory trainings for organizations considering the transition to shared leadership. Training topics include assessing organizational capacity (September 30), identifying and shifting power (October 21), and navigating organizational culture shifts (Nov 18). People are encouraged to show up with their organizational team, and will be invited to take steps between each session to deepen their exploration of building shared leadership.  Join one, two, or all three! 

Facilitated by attorney Hope Mohr, Fellow with the Sustainable Economies Law Center and Co-leader of the Artist Legal Cafe. Mohr co-stewarded the transition of the nonprofit that she founded and has since supported dozens of mission-driven organizations on the shared leadership journey.  

A companion to our Legal Cafes, Solidari-Tea Time provides opportunities for solidarity economy movement organizations to get advice, coaching and support with challenges you are experiencing on your organizational development journey.

• Are you having trouble making decisions together? 
• Do you need support sharing work more effectively? 
• Are you having a hard time bringing in new members to your organization? 
• Are experienced members struggling to adapt to your new ways of working under shared leadership? 
• Are you experiencing conflict as you encounter growing pains? 
• Are you wondering what your next steps are as you transition to shared leadership?

You are not alone!  And we’re here to help.

Building organizations that align with our values of justice, shared leadership, and participatory democracy is challenging.  Bring your questions, challenges, and stumbling blocks to Solidari-Tea Time, and get support from consultants and practitioners experienced in building worker self-directed nonprofits, cooperatives, and other organizations practicing liberatory values.