Across the globe, people are being asked to lead groups online: teachers, trainers, professors, event managers, organizers, activists.
Jeanne Rewa and Daniel Hunter bring their combined two decades of online facilitation to bring you the basics of how to lead sessions online. They give you their top 10 principles for leading online groups, introduce you to interactive tools you can lead online, and answer commonly asked questions. This revised edition includes more training tools, interactive games/warm-ups, and advanced questions.
With this guide, you will be ready to successfully transition your face-to-face events for warmer online spaces.
The journey to leading groups online can be a challenge — but it is made much easier with these tips.
UPDATED VERSION! We wrote this first version at the beginning of the pandemic. This new and expanded version features even more tools, a dozen new games and warm-up activities, and advanced topics like how to make decisions as a group or dealing with very large groups.
Jeanne Rewa (co-author) coordinates the Online Facilitation Lab at Training for Change.
In 2014 she shifted entirely to online facilitation and training work. She now supports people all around the world to bring love, collaboration, equity, embodiment, creativity, experiential education, and conflict engagement into online spaces. She’s been working on a book about it but didn’t finish by the time the pandemic struck. Sign-up to hear about it at LeadingGroupsOnline.org.
Jeanne is also a part-time artist and active in social justice and climate justice organizing.
Daniel Hunter (co-author) is Associate Director of Global Trainings with 350.org.
He has spent his life supporting grassroots activists all over the globe to express their full hearts in organizing and social change. True to his personal style, he wrote a fun, true-life story of how campaigning looks like in Strategy and Soul. He’s written handbooks for specific movements with Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow, What if Trump (or Harris) Wins, and Climate Resistance Handbook: Or, I was part of a climate action. Now what?
When he started at 350 he was challenged to facilitate online more. Since then he’s built Trainings.350.org a free online training resource including online courses on organizing and campaigning. He’s led hybrid and online conferences, including a 3-day 24-hour conference with participation in over 60 countries, 10 languages, and 10,000+ participants.
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This book will be an in-depth resource with step-by-step instructions from choosing software to designing to implementing and evaluating online programs, including synchronous (live), asynchronous (self-paced) and blended approaches.
Designed for individuals and organizations who want to bring online their values of relationship-building, risk-taking, collaboration, inclusion and equity, conflict engagement, and experiential and Popular Education approaches.
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