Campaign Fundamentals
Wednesday, August 5 2026
10:00 AM 4:00 PM
When: July 7 from 10am- 4pm
Where: Festival Center
What: oin us for a hands-on, full-day 101 workshop where organizers will learn the essential building blocks of running a powerful, community-rooted campaign.
We'll cover the critical difference between strategy and tactics, how to sharpen your campaign demand, and how to get specific about stakeholders, targets, and levers of power. From researching your issue to mapping who holds the power to make change, you'll leave with the tools to move from ideas to action.
Facilitated by Kush Kharod and Ramah Kudaimi
Lunch is included!
Designing Liberatory Spaces for Aliveness
When: July 7 from 10am- 4pm
Where: Festival Center
What: Movement work is serious, and can be heavy, but our spaces do not have to embody that heaviness. This workshop equips movement leaders, nonprofit leaders and movement facilitators to design gatherings that are energizing rather than draining. Through reflection, redesign, and practical experimentation, participants will learn how beauty, sensory experience and relational depth enhance strategic clarity.
Lunch is included!
Intro to Healing Justice for Trainers
When: May 18th from 10am-4pm
Where: Festival Center
What: This training will support organizers to integrate healing justice into their practice. We will explore the origins of the Healing Justice lineages, definition, principles, and framework. Lunch is included!
Facilitation Training
We’ve got another Introduction to Facilitation training!
When: April 21st from 10-4 pm ET
Where: The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Road NW
What to expect: This training will take us through an “arc” that we all often struggle with:
Introduction to facilitation techniques, tools and strategies
Focus on race, power and facilitating for equity
Best for folks leading meetings/teams/collectives working for equity
Facilitation Training
We’ve got another Introduction to Facilitation training!
When: March 17th from 10-4 pm ET
Where: The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Road NW
What to expect: This training will take us through an “arc” that we all often struggle with:
Introduction to facilitation techniques, tools and strategies
Focus on race, power and facilitating for equity
Best for folks leading meetings/teams/collectives working for equity
Dec. 8 Facilitation Training
Facilitators: DC Trainers Network
Format: In-person
Facilitation is a skill—and a practice. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to sharpen your approach, this daylong, hands-on training offers a space to build confidence and deepen your toolkit. We’ll cover agenda design, co-facilitation, group dynamics, and power—through the lens of racial and social justice. Come ready to practice, reflect, and learn in community. Lunch is on us.
Dec. 11 Celebration
Facilitators: DC Trainers Network
Format: In-person
Facilitation is a skill—and a practice. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to sharpen your approach, this daylong, hands-on training offers a space to build confidence and deepen your toolkit. We’ll cover agenda design, co-facilitation, group dynamics, and power—through the lens of racial and social justice. Come ready to practice, reflect, and learn in community. Lunch is on us.