Trainings & Workshops!

350Vermont’s Trainings & Workshops are integral to our organizing and leadership development priorities. Our organizing model & theory of change focus on building a leader-full movement, rather than one driven by staff or “experts”, and our trainings program provides the skills, knowledge, and tools to drive bold, people-powered action on climate. Our trainings use popular education and experiential education models to ground the content in their own lives and empower participants to turn their learnings into action.

Trainings & Workshops we offer!

  • This workshop explores the intersection of the climate crisis and social justice issues – specifically at this moment in the context of Vermont.

  • This workshop is designed to support individuals and groups to dig into the roots of the climate crisis and explore how and why working for climate justice necessitates the dismantling of racism and white supremacy culture.

  • This workshop is a chance to explore different ways we make change and support each other as we each find our own answers to how we want to engage in changemaking.

  • Learn skills, tools, and techniques for facilitating inclusive, energetic meetings that gets things done.

  • This workshop offers skills and knowledge to craft the story of your own climate activism and practice sharing that story out loud to encourage other people to take action.

  • This workshop offers tools and frameworks for thinking about building campaigns, long term success, base-building, and actionable goals.

  • Through role plays and exercises, we will learn the importance of collective action and its connection to collective liberation, the basics of NVDA (nonviolent direct action) theory, creative tactics for shutting things down to open them up, and legal factors to consider, all with a focus on how to use NVDA strategically within a campaign.

  • This workshop can help answer basic questions and support you as you design your next policy-related strategy.

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Training or Workshop!

If you’re looking for a particular workshop or training to support your local 350VT group or other organizing group, in addition to those above, please check out the list above. Some of these programs are run by current 350VT staff and others may be run by leaders and volunteers within our broader climate justice community.  Some of them may have special scheduling constraints, space and materials needs, and/or content related financial costs. We can adjust timing and content according to your requirements.

To express interest or learn more please contact trainings@350vt.org.

If you believe as strongly as we do that it is crucial to grow the skills, knowledge, and talent of our members, consider making an investment directly in that work.

Some Past Trainings & Workshops!

  • Just Transition Study Group

    350Vermont dove deep dive into what Just Transition means; how people in other communities have done this kind of organizing; how it relates to power and privilege; what the impacts of it in Vermont would be; and how to talk about it clearly with a diverse range of people. Our members left with a deeper understanding of how and when climate solutions center justice and what this framework means for you and your community.

    Click here to see the Just Transition Study Group Curriculum and feel free to host a group in your community!

  • Confronting Vermont’s False Climate Solutions: Voices from the Frontlines

    On the eve of Earth Day to 350Vermont heard from communities who are impacted by some of Vermont’s false “solutions” to the climate crisis, and learn about the effect of our potential energy extraction on their lives and homes.

    Speakers included two representatives from the North American Megadams Resistance Alliance, Roberta Benefiel and Noretta Miswaggon, speaking about the impacts of hydroelectricity on their indigenous communities, and Maria Payan from Delaware and the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project, who is organizing against “Renewable” Natural Gas (RNG) and Biogas, and spoke about the impacts of CAFOs and biogas facilities on her family and community.

    Click here to watch the video from April 21, 2022

  • Inspiring Action through Storytelling

    350VT recently held a webinar on how to communicate effectively about our climate crisis and our plan for a just transition. We discussed the power of a Public Narrative, how to use storytelling to get your point across, and give you lots of opportunity to draft your own narrative and receive feedback on it.

    Watch video here.

  • Organizing and Movement Building 101

    350VT recently facilitated a workshop on how to engage and onboard new leaders, develop volunteer leadership, and keep people involved to build a vibrant climate justice movement for a nationwide 350.org network!

    Watch the full video here.

  • Organizing With Youth: How to Build a Multi-generational Movement

    How do we build a movement that is inclusive towards all people, of all ages and life stages? How can we improve our relationships with youth organizers in our lives?

    Created and facilitated by young activists, this training focused on how to work with youth in the climate justice movement. Drawing from personal experience and movement theory, we broke down assumptions, addressed simplifications, and started a foundational discussion for transforming our organizing visions.

    Click here to watch the video recording.

  • Training For Social Action Trainers

    We partnered with Migrant Justice to bring Training For Change to Burlington for a weekend intensive workshop for developing and strengthening facilitation and leadership skills.

  • An Evening with Starhawk: Collaboration, Co-Creation, and Empowerment in the Climate Movement

    Starhawk led an interactive workshop offers the opportunity to engage in different ways of approaching strategy and collaboration.

    Watch the full presentation here!