Workshop: Negotiation and Coalition Building

Posted by on October 15, 2004

FREE WEEKEND WORKSHOP ON ?NEGOTIATION AND COALITION BUILDING?

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30-31
ANTIOCH NEW ENGLAND GRADUATE SCHOOL, KEENE, NH

Antioch New England?s graduate program in Environmental Advocacy and Organizing invites community organizers and leaders, activists, students, and anyone else interested in building diverse coalitions, to this two-day workshop. Working together, we will sharpen and broaden our negotiation skills, with a focus on fighting for positive change by building diverse coalitions that cross lines of class, race and geography.

The workshop has three main components:

1) Interactive negotiation exercises focused on coordinating coalition members? values and interests, positioning, creating value, and coordinating table and street strategy.

2) A half-day workshop on collaboration across class lines to build stronger movements for social change.

3) Networking and sharing strategy ideas and experience.

The workshop will meet from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in Keene, NH. This will leave time to get outdoors in the beautiful New England autumn, join a last-weekend canvass for the election (in a swing state!), and/or socialize with other workshop participants. There is no charge for the workshop, but participants must cover their own room & board costs in Keene.

SPACE IS LIMITED! To apply and/or for more information, contact Dan Nicolai at Dan_Nicolai@antiochne.edu.

WORKSHOP PRESENTERS:

Mara Hernandez, a doctoral student at MIT specializing in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, holds a Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government and trained in the Harvard Mediation Program. She has taught several workshops in the U.S. and Mexico in Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution.

Betsy Leondar-Wright, Communications Director at United for a Fair Economy, has been an activist for social change for over 25 years. She has led more than 50 workshops and support groups on class and classism. Her forthcoming book, Class Matters: Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle-Class Activists (New Society Publishers, 2005) is excerpted on the web at http://www.classmatters.org/.

Dan Nicolai is an Organizer with the Service Employees International Union Local 615 and has worked as a community and labor organizer in Minnesota and Louisiana. He graduated from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is an Adjunct Professor at Antioch New England Graduate School.

Please help us spread the word about this opportunity to anyone in your networks that might be interested.