Designing and Facilitating Meetings for Equity

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About the Institute

When planning adult learning and collaboration, it’s essential to design an experience that moves beyond a series of tasks or items to address. This is particularly true when guiding a group through conversations focused on issues of equity and other emotionally-charged challenges.

Designing and Facilitating Meetings for Equity offers essential knowledge and skills for setting the conditions necessary for effective discussion and collaboration, as well as facilitation skills to support you to respond to the particular dynamics of the group you are working with.

Designing agendas and planning activities is a crucial foundation for productive collaboration – but even the best plans can be sidelined by participant anxieties or volatile emotions that create unproductive group dynamics. Facilitating the particular dynamics of any group is complex, challenging work – especially when guiding people through discussions and work focused on equity issues.

This Institute will provide an opportunity to learn about and practice applying strategies and structures that support productive meetings that encourage full participation and engagement amongst your team. We will also help you to understand what’s underneath the challenges your group is facing and learn facilitation skills that can create a team with greater agency and effectiveness. In addition, we will model and provide strategies for deepening connections and engagement in meetings and learning sessions.

”I am so surprised that by the end of the day I could write an agenda that is better than 99% of the meetings I’ve attended or facilitated. Each piece of the day was thoughtfully crafted to lead me to that great moment.” 

– Elizabeth Little, Math for America

Participants Say

“As an outcomes-oriented person, this Institute helped me to be attentive and intentional about the experiences I am designing as a leader. I loved the practices and engagement of the session.”

– Caroline Mar, San Francisco Unified School District

"I'm walking away with an abundance of resources, tools, and frameworks to use in my facilitation practice! Super grateful for the NEP team for creating this necessary space for awesome folks to be vulnerable, to be inspired and to learn together."

–Denise Castillo Chavez , KIPP Public Schools

Frequently Asked Questions

    • Anyone responsible for guiding people to collaborate effectively together, including:

    • Education sector Directors and Managers

    • Directors of Equity and other DEI leaders

    • Coaches and Teacher Leaders

    • Independent consultants and facilitators

    • Managers from any sector who are responsible leading teams to effectively work and learn together.

  • Because this institute requires attention to building a learning community, we encourage full attendance for the duration of the institute.

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  • Reach out to us at events@nationalequityproject.org.