Upcoming events
Workshop: The Secrets to Designing Effective Meetings
Do you find yourself stuck in endless meetings that go in circles, waste your time, and leave you feeling tired and frustrated? You are not alone. Bad meetings are widely cited as one of the biggest “pain points” employees face at work. A recent survey of over 5,000 workers shows that meetings are ineffective over 72% of the time; yet few managers ever take the time to learn the basic principles of good meeting design. By implementing a few changes to the way you plan and structure meetings, you can help your team regain immense amounts of wasted time and energy. This workshop is for anyone who wants to dramatically up-level their meetings to be more efficient and effective.
Hosted by the Metrowest Nonprofit Network. Register here.
Webinar: How to Set Strategic Direction When Nothing is Certain
A justice-centered approach to navigating chaos with clarity, courage, and adaptability.
In a world where predictions are shaky and change is constant, traditional planning falls short. This webinar introduces IISC’s Five Practices for Strategic Direction Setting, a values-driven approach that helps leaders move through uncertainty without losing their North Star.
We’ll explore how to:
Clarify Your North Star: Anchor in purpose and values
Plan for Multiple Futures: Use scenario thinking to stay nimble
Design for Flexibility & Collaboration: Build a living, adaptive strategy
Center Equity & Build Power: Keep justice at the heart of decisions
Strengthen Internal Capacity & Well-Being: Sustain your people to sustain your mission
You’ll walk away with frameworks and practical tools for leading with clarity when the path ahead keeps shifting.
This session is for anyone who holds responsibility for guiding people through uncertainty – executive leaders, program directors, network weavers, organizers, and facilitators who want to lead with steadiness and purpose.
Thursday, April 30, 2026 3:00 – 5:00 PM ET
Hosted by the Interaction Institute for Social Change. Register here.
Past events
How can we rise up in the face of authoritarianism?
What lessons can we learn from people-powered movements around the world?
What power do we have to protect and advance our democracy?
Join us for an online learning session to explore these questions through examples from the resistance movement in Serbia and the work of Gene Sharp, a world-renowned expert on nonviolent civil action. We will watch a portion of the 2011 documentary about Dr. Sharp’s work, “How to Start a Revolution,” and discuss some methods of nonviolent action we can use in the U.S. today.
Please register for one of the session dates below:
May 27 | 6-8pm ET, 5-7pm CT, 4-6pm MT, 3-5pm PT | Hosted by Maureen White and lawrence barriner | register here
June 11 | 6-8pm ET, 5-7pm CT, 4-6pm MT, 3-5pm PT | Hosted by Maureen White and Mikayla | register here
About the hosts:
Maureen White (she/her) is a Boston-based facilitator, consultant, coach, and organizer. For over 25 years she has worked with and for nonprofits, community groups, campaigns, and social movements. She is committed to our collective learning in order to resist the current regime.
Mikayla (they) is a facilitator, coach, organizer, Quaker, and baker; they have always been anti-authoritarian by nature, and they’re eager to be part of building a broad, deep anti-authoritarian movement for our survival. Mikayla is white, class privileged (from a managerial class family, individually downwardly mobile), queer, and trans/nonbinary.
lawrence barriner ii (he/him) is Black, queer, spiritual, and always learning. he works as facilitator, coach, and consultant based on occupied massachusett and pawtucket lands. his work in the world often includes time travel, exploring futures beyond patriarchy, and using imagination and creativity as a tool for liberation, all of which he hopes to bring to dismantling this authoritarian regime.
About Gene Sharp:
In an academic and professional career spanning more than six decades, Gene Sharp became a prominent political theorist who studied and advanced the cause of nonviolent action for social and political change. His ideas and writings, along with his close study of Gandhi and dictatorships, have informed nonviolent struggles for freedom around the world.
