Seeds for Change - training and support for campaigners. "Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand." Confucius 450 BC Running a workshop is a great way to share your skills or to help people learn from each other. You may also find some of our other briefings and guides on consensus and facilitation useful. back to top What is facilitation? Workshop facilitation is about helping a group to gain skills and knowledge. Workshop facilitation in practice? Facilitating a workshop involves a range of different responsibilities. However, the knowledge doesn't have to come from the facilitator. Facilitation is also about taking responsibility for other factors which enable people to learn. How people learn Before you start planning your workshop, give some thought to the ways that people learn. Remembering what we've learnt back to top The Pyramid of Learning If you want someone to know something, you may think that the best option is simply to tell them. Implications for facilitation Long term memory The senses
Trading Co-ops Network For a long time in Radical Routes we have known that many people who live in housing co-ops also work in workers co-operatives that are not a part of the network. There are many good reason for this. Many workers co-ops would find the work commitment to Radical Routes hard to fulfill; attending gatherings at weekends is difficult for workers co-ops in many industries and the benefits of full membership are less tangible for workers co-operatives than they are for housing co-ops. To redress this the trading co-ops forum and associated working group have been formed. At each gathering people involved in workers co-operatives or other trading organisations and those acting as sole traders get together to discuss issues that affect them and to provide mutual aid. To be a member of the Rad Routes Trading Co-ops Network, co-ops must be full or associate members of Radical Routes. For information on how to become an associate member visit the how to join page. Catalyst Collective Social Centres
What's Money Got To Do With It? Publications & Resources How to set up a Workers Co-op. (spiral-bound) *NEW*Updated June 2012. 156 A5pp of choosing legal structures, registration with companies house, market research, business plans, democratic decision making, legal requirements & responsibilities, finances and a few bits on running the thing once you've set it up If you don't want to buy this lovely booklet but want the information then please feel free to download one of the following low resolution (but still 3.4Mb) PDFs of the insides.This copy is laid out one page to an A5 sheet If you have any questions, please feel free to talk to 'Seeds for Change' Lancaster(www.seedsforchange.org.uk) who prepared the booklet or to the RR Trading Co-ops Network or ask Co-ops UK.
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About | BSustained BSustained is a business that provides training and catering services, using the combined skills of its multi-talented owner, Birgit Kehrer. The training, gardening and the catering feed into each other, informing and enhancing each other. As our slogan ‘Growing Skills – Feeding Confidence’ suggests, the business centres around the themes of building skills, enhancing confidence, growing (personally and horticulturally) and finding sustainable ways of living and eating. Starting with workshops and catering in the first year, we intend to go on to form a social enterprise to deliver the training to disadvantaged communities, while continuing to offer catering to private customers. To sum up, these are the ideas which underlie our work:
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