join us for a workshop!
Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition is excited to offer a regular training workshop series to our members and anyone involved in the broader justice movement in Fairbanks! These monthly learning sessions will focus on skills needed to run effective teams and build strong campaigns designed to build people power and win real changes in our communities.
Training Dates for Winter 2024 will be announced soon! If you want to make sure you hear about our upcoming events, make sure to sign up to receive our newsletter and follow us on Facebook and Instagram for our most up-to-date announcements!
Past Sessions
Gathering People & Leading Meetings
Tuesday, May 7th
We had a great turnout for our first training workshop in the Tools for Change series! People from FCAC, Fireweed, Native Movement, Northern Center, and members of the broader community participated in a productive session on learning the art of gathering and leading people in productive dialogue to accomplish shared goals! One of the most essential building blocks of social change is the ability to bring community members together to communicate and set goals for collective action. In this workshop, we had the opportunity to hone your skills for getting people to meetings and facilitating effective discussions. This training covered best practices for preparing, leading, and following up meetings as well as an opportunity to practice facilitation in small groups.
Outreach & Recruitment
Tuesday, June 4th
Our community gathered to learn how to repare yourself to bring new people into the movement by honing your outreach pitch! Recruiting others with a direct ask is both one of the hardest and most important skills for building up a community campaign. This workshop helped attendees refine their approach and script for outreach conversations, perfect for feeling comfortable with summer tabling or making phone calls. We covered the basic principles of movement basebuilding, strategies for effective recruitment, and a chance to practice writing and sharing your pitch.
Intro to Strategic Storytelling
Tuesday, July 30th
In July we gathered to talk about some of the data behind good messaging, how this data applies in Alaska, and how we can apply it in climate justice or other kinds of social justice work. We got into the nerdy side of messaging tactics and broke down the data on how we can best tell the story of the issues we care about, and how to make the world we’re building irresistible.
Strategic Storytelling Workshop
Tuesday, Sept. 3rd
In session 2 of our Strategic Storytelling series, we’ll dove deeper into how we tell the story of our work in a way that moves people into understanding and ultimately action in support of our cause and learned tools to reframe existing narratives in a way that can shift public understanding of an issue.
Press Tactics for Activists
Wednesday, October 23rd
At Press Tactics for Activists, the third in our Strategic Storytelling training series, we be crafted messages that can be used with the news media, using some of the messaging skills from the first two training sessions and practiced media spokesperson skills in small groups.
