TRAINING
MCAN Leadership Assembly Training
Framingham, May 2019
ARE YOU READY TO STEP INTO YOUR POWER?
leader (n.) -
a leader builds momentum through a base of followers who inform the leader’s work and trust the leader to bring their voices, and sometimes themselves, into initiatives to transform an issue, policy, or system to disrupt the status quo
Organizers train leaders, so that leaders can organize.
In other words, grassroots community organizing is all about developing leaders to become their most bold, powerful, and authentic selves. Those leaders then carry on the work of impacting lives and transforming systems.
Training is about building power and at every MCAN training you will discover the power of:
Guiding Principles
to help you take the training home and
put it to work
Storytelling
to engage others
and illustrate impact
Agitation
asking questions to see and meet somebody
where they are, but not leave them there
Rejuvenation
to rest, refuel and reimagine
for the work
of revolution
“School of Prophetic Action training allowed me to see what I already knew, but more clearly. I knew there were systems in place that were holding me back. I knew I wanted something more for myself and my family and I knew I wanted to change the environment of my neighborhood, but I didn't know how to go about it. SOPA helped me to get clear on what I was up against, but that I didn't have to make a difference all by myself. (Through being a part of the trainings) I told myself I would step out in faith and work for myself without the security of a weekly paycheck. I would have never thought in a million years I would be connected to so many beautiful people doing incredible things in this world. It breathes hope and that's what I'm trying to be about - Hope for someone else.”
Cindy Williams, Leader
Brockton Interfaith Community
2025 MCAN TRAININGS
TRAIN THE TRAINER
March 31 - April 3
A four day gathering to focus on the art of training. Exercises are designed to hone skills as a trainer and identify key elements of effective training. The training also centers topics such as agitation, triggers, and offering/receiving effective feedback.
AUDIENCE: Organizers and grassroots leaders who are currently offering trainings to others or will be in the near future. Each participant must come with 1-2 trainings prepared to be worked on over the course of the training sessions. This training offers mild agitation.
ORGANIZING 101
A one day gathering to focus on MCAN's organizing cycle or model. This training will take participants through the art of relationship building, issue selection, research, action and evaluation.
AUDIENCE: Organizers and grassroots leaders with a desire to ground themselves in the full arch of the organizing cycle. There is no prior experience needed to attend this training.
May 3, 4; September 13, 14
BOARD TRAINING #2
October 26
This half day training is an opportunity for Board Members across the network to build their understanding of their responsibilities and to sharpen skills so that they can lead powerfully. Participants have an opportunity to work together with fellow affiliate Board Members as well as connect and share best practices with Board members from other MCAN affiliates.
AUDIENCE: Open to all current & incoming Board Members at each affiliate and their Directors. Location: TBA
SCHOOL OF LIBERATION
November 16-21
This week long training focuses on the nuts and bolts of effective organizing based on MCAN's model. It focuses heavily on the importance of relationship building, and listening, and invites you to wrestle with what is preventing you from building authentic power. It will also equip you to conduct research that results in actions to drive community transformation.
AUDIENCE: SOL is designed for organizing staff and leaders who have gone through at least one organizing cycle. The training will further their understanding of both the cycle and their own orientation to power. It will offer intense agitation and participants should be mindful of this when they sign up.
SCHOOL OF
PROPHETIC ACTION
TBA in Worcester, Fall River/New Bedford, and the North Shore
This training series focuses on the nuts and bolts of effective organizing based on MCAN's faith and values organizing model. Each training section is rooted in a faith or spiritual tradition as a grounding for the session. The teachings center on the importance of relationship building, and listening, and invite you to wrestle with what is preventing you from building authentic power. It will also equip you to conduct research that results in actions to drive community transformation.
AUDIENCE: The target audience are those willing to wrestle with how faith (from many different places and spaces) calls us to stand for ourselves and others who have their backs against the wall. SOPA is run at the local affiliate level and is open to regional community members as well as funders and donors interested in better understanding how this form of organizing works.
Are you an organizer or leader who would like to register for an Organizing 101 one day session, School of Liberation or School of Propetic Action? Let us know by clicking here
SCHOOL OF PROPHETIC ACTION
Essex County Community Organization
Lynn, March 2023