Resist + Renew invite you to join a facilitated skillshare to explore how we might bring our best organising skills and cultures to the group chat. We're running the same session twice so pick the one that works for you!

When the Covid lockdowns happened, a lot of our lives moved online. Since then some of us have returned to in-person spaces but so much of our political organising still happens on our phones in Signal groups, Whatsapp chats and other online spaces. This shift has made some stuff we do a lot easier, but it isn’t without its challenges.

We’re a collective of trainers and facilitators, with years of experience in social movements, who support groups to be healthy and effective. We’re seeing through our work that things like making decisions and engaging with conflict are really different, and sometimes more challenging, when we’re trying to do them on our phones.

We hear stories of where things go wrong, but also snippets of groups holding online spaces and supporting healthy group cultures really well - what practices and protocols can we share and learn from each other?

This is a peer learning space for sharing challenges, solidarity and possible solutions together.

We’ll bring loads of tasty snacks and refreshments, some questions, structure and lots of curiosity.

These in-person sessions are part of a bigger project that also includes similar sessions online and potential follow up interviews. We’ll be weaving what we learn into how we support groups in the future, through our sliding scale open workshops and bespoke support for groups and organisations working for social change.

You can find out more about us and what we do here - www.resistrenew.com

Sun 23rd August
Doors / refreshments - 10.30am
Session - 11am - 1pm

OR

Tues 1st September
Doors / refreshments - 6pm
Session 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Access
​https://www.accessable.co.uk/bristol-city-council/access-guides/st-werburghs-community-centre#88039481-a8ca-544d-b398-284d686b75d2

​Covid
We keep each other safe! These sessions are in person so we will bring an air purifier and ask you do a lateral flow test and wear a mask. We'll provide tests and masks on the day for anyone not able to access one.

​Toilets
There are gender neutral toilets at the venue

Snacks Snacks Snacks
​We’ll provide snacks and refreshments - please let us know if you have any allergies or dietary requirements.

Who are Resist + Renew?
We're a small training and facilitation collective with over 90 years of movement experience between us.

This session will be run by Rowan (they/them) and Yaz (they/them) - https://resistrenew.com/whoweare/team-bios/

Any questions? - [email protected]