The growing number of social movements globally are reshaping civil societies everywhere. Despite the pandemic, people have participated in large numbers through movements to uphold democratic principles and civil rights. 

To support them, institutions need to adopt a new movement mindset.* They must work differently with new tools and new approaches to effectively support movements.

Rhize’s Adopting a Movement Mindset course will help you integrate a “movement mindset” into your work and build new approaches to supporting social movements in your community more effectively and responsibly.

It is a five week course with an optional bonus session with live webinars once every week. 

Dates: 3 Mar 2022 - 31 Mar 2022 **Registration is now closed**

Learn if this course is meant for you!

Adopting a Movement Mindset course is ideal for 

• Foundations, NGOs, civil society organisations, social change advocates, technologists and funders who believe in the power of social movements and are invested in empowering communities

• You are looking to bring a movement understanding and mindset to your existing programs and team 

• You want to deepen the impact of your programs and reassess your systems to be better suited to serve movements and leaders

• You are developing new programs and are looking to build base knowledge of movement building to guide the development of your initiatives regionally and globally

• If you have cross sectional teams who want to build an understanding of movements, it is best advised to apply as a group wherein you can get coaching on your movement support initiatives

what to expect from the course

This course will help you understand how effective movements develop; recognize what movement leaders really need and how you can support them; and develop an action plan for how to work with movements in your community. 

• A weekly 90-minute webinar for 5 weeks covering core movement-building concepts for the first 4 weeks.

• One on one coaching support (optional) to help apply course concepts to your work so that you walk away with an action plan for supporting movements.

• Opportunities to learn from and share with civil society peers through interactive online discussions.

• The last session is an optional bonus session to understand the unique capacity your organisation can add to the ecosystem of movement support with an action plan.

Schedule & Syllabus

Live webinar sessions will be 90 minutes once a week for 5 weeks on Thursdays at 11:00am-12:30pm EST (GMT -5). One on one coaching support will be scheduled for the last week of the course.

Read more in-depth about the syllabus and learning objectives here.

When you register, you are signing up to be taught by members of Rhize’s Global Coaching Corps, composed of veteran movement coaches who have worked with dozens of movements globally.

ASHLEY WAUDO

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Ashley is an alumnus of the Global Coaching Fellowship. She is passionate about creating significant, positive change in individuals and communities through advocacy. She is engaged in building capacity for sustainable change through training and has used her expertise to support grassroots movements in Africa. She is also an alumnus of the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI). She loves cooking and music.

tuition information

Rhize is committed to creating equitable access to each of our courses. Tuition fees are based on a sliding scale, corresponding to organizational budget size. Our goal is to ensure your participation is not cost prohibitive. Discounted group rates are available. Early Bird discount deadline is 31 Jan 2022. We also offer scholarships on a case-by-case basis. You can inquire about these options during the registration process.

Your tuition directly supports Rhize’s global ecosystem of movement support, allowing us to compensate our coaches equitably, scale opportunities for co-learning and sustain core infrastructure that powers our global community.

why adopt a movement mindset?

Rhize developed the curriculum for Adopting a Movement Mindset based on research for our report Understanding Activism. The report identifies what activists really want and need in terms of support and Adopting a Movement Mindset helps you develop action plans that meet activists’ needs.

Drawing on surveys of over 1,100 activists across ten countries, Understanding Activism shows the impact of shrinking civic space on activism around the world, and reveals the ways in which these conditions have often by made worse by external actors like institutional funders and NGOs trying to support activists.

Testimonials

Here's what various civil society professionals have said after taking the course:

“Rhize’s methodology helped us better understand the social movements we are a part of and how to better structure our work to achieve greater impact.”                    
–  Sheila Ferniza, Centro de Innovación e Impacto Social, Monterrey, México

“Good balance of theory and practice, with lots of opportunity for peer-to-peer learning from a great diverse global cohort of both, those within movements and those outside them, trying to better support them.”
 – Nada Zohdy, Open Gov Hub

“As someone who feels that he is both supporting and participating in movements while trying to find a balance between the two, professional development and community-based learning has been applicable immediately. In planning out and implementing our most proximate campaign, I have re-evaluated the conditions for our movement formation... The course has enabled me to understand that I needed to expand my framework of thinking.”                                                         
– Ian Schiffer, Young Progressives Demanding Action

NOTE: The March 2022 Adopting a Movement Mindset course will only be held if more than 10 people register.