Introduction to Liberatory Design
3-hour Virtual Workshop
Upcoming Offerings
About the Workshop
We are all living in challenging times that our past experience and training has not sufficiently prepared us for. Too often, well intentioned equity efforts do not succeed—and even produce unintended consequences. This can lead to frustration, hopelessness and cynicism. This workshop offers an introduction to our Liberatory Design framework and approach, focused on the Liberatory Design Mindsets.
Liberatory Design is an approach to addressing equity challenges and change efforts in complex systems. It is a process and practice to:
Create designs that help interrupt inequity and increase opportunity for those most impacted by oppression
Transform power by shifting the relationships between those who hold power to design and those impacted by these designs
Generate critical learning and increased agency for those involved in the design work.
Participants Say
”Great introduction to Liberatory Design. It feels richer and deeper than other design processes you may be familiar with and the community of practitioners is so wonderfully diverse and inspiring. Jump in!”
– Holly Morris, Global Voice Community
“This training was engaging, informative, fun, and inspiring. The facilitators practiced what they preached, setting up a space that felt very different from how meetings or trainings normally go.”
– Ava Fenulus, Surge Institute
“I feel so inspired and refreshed with these mindsets and how I will be able to apply them towards my students and make sure they are being heard.”
– Carmen Parra, Childcare Aware Washington
Frequently Asked Questions
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This workshop will be delivered in a live, 3-hour interactive learning session conducted online in Zoom. Attend the live session with facilitators and fellow participants and gain new knowledge and skills to bring back to your own context. Participants receive electronic versions of all resources and tools.
We are intensely focused on humanizing our virtual spaces. We focus on interactivity and connection (these workshops are not webinars), frequent screen and body breaks, and attending to learning, practice, and healing in community with people around the world.
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School leaders and educators curious about the Liberatory Design approach, especially the Liberatory Design Mindsets.
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We provide an advance draft of our slide deck 24 hours before the session and enable live transcription and closed caption during the live Zoom session. Our sessions are recorded (absent any technical difficulties) and can be accessed for up to 30 days after the course concludes.
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Because our trainings include attention to building a learning community and interaction with other folks in small groups, we encourage full participation for the duration of the training. We hope participants can fully engage during sessions, but support participants to attend to their own unique needs.
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Registration by credit card is our preferred method. We are a small (but mighty) organization and processing and collecting check payments for our events has a high administrative impact.
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Information about cancellations and registration transfers can be viewed here.
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Reach out to us at events@nationalequityproject.org