Dirty to Clean Energy Transition.

Community Involvement for Sustainable Futures, Joe Gorman, Build-It-Up! WV Squires 341

Follow the Money: Taking the fight to Coal’s financiers, Marley Green, Rainforest Action Network Squires 238

• Big Coal need’s lots of money and capital to level mountains and change the climate. Rainforest Action Network is taking the grassroots fight for a coal free future to the steps of Wall St., targeting the banks that loan Big Coal it’s money. We’ll talk about what this looks like, and how you can help.

Hula-Hooping 101 & Facilitation Methods, Liza Dobson

Start your own Oxfam chapter, Christopher Mortweet, Oxfam at VT McBryde 202

The Nature of Leadership, Michael Blackwell, Future Generations McBryde 134

• Ideas from “Cognitive Climate Change” will taught in a hands-on, practice oriented workshop.  Basic nature-connection skills of attention, perception, place-based knowing, play, community, mindfulness – and their efficacy in leadership – will be shared and co-created.  Dress to be outside.

Leadership & Movement Building.

Facilitation Methods, Alex Davenport &  Lou Lepping, Mountain Justice Squires 232

• Part 2 of 2: This workshop explores in more detail how to run an effective meeting by utilizing strong facilitation skills, a solid agenda, and a clear decision-making process.

Meeting with Decision Makers, Eleni Healey, Green Corps Squires 300

News and Media Relations, Grant, Christine, and Alex McBryde 204

Developing Leaders: Organizing yourself out of a job, David Pinsky, Greenpeace Squires 236

• In order to build a movement that creates social change and wins campaigns, you need a team of leaders. This training will give you the keys to success for organizing yourself out of a job by identifying and developing leaders in your group.