A 2-part workshop series to build confidence in leading online spaces and embrace technology with care. For organizers, and community and cultural workers, these trainings elevate your skills in online facilitation, tech support, and accessible design.
Overview and Times
In both workshops you'll engage in hands-on activities, discussions and real world examples.
Expect a mix of reflection, skill-building, and collaborative learning, as we learn to design and be technical hosts for online experiences that are both accessible and powerful.
Workshop 1
The Power of Online Spaces is a 2-hour workshop designed for facilitators to improve their facilitation of online meetings and gatherings with impactful, generative, and energizing tools.
Workshop 2
Still Zoomin' is a 3-hour training that equips staff and volunteers with technical support skills, practice time, and a framework of radical hospitality so they can support facilitators and event attendees.
Program Description and Takeaways
The Building Our Movements Online course training series equips you with the skills to lead and provide tech for your online movement gatherings, with care and access at the center. Upon completion, you'll join a community of peers and have access to our tech support practice clinics and listserv.
Training Outcomes
These trainings are designed for groups at any level of experience and can be adapted to the specific needs and skill sets your team may want more practice with.
The Power of Online Spaces
- Identify barriers to positive online experiences and ways to overcome them
- Understand what makes online learning effective and engaging
- Apply practices for creating restorative and supportive online spaces
- Adapt popular in-person facilitation exercises for virtual settings
- Design online spaces for different event formats
- Incorporate basic accessibility considerations to make your spaces welcoming to participants
Still Zoomin'
- Hold space for your community by developing the technical skills needed to support effective and engaging online gatherings
- Understand your role of a Tech Support Lead (TSL) while providing radical virtual hospitality
- Use key functions and features of the Zoom video conferencing platform to foster interaction and connection between participants
- Consider and implement accessibility practices to ensure everyone can fully participate
- Build a practical template for organizing tech logistics
- Have access to future tech practice spaces
Additional Information
Why choose this training?
At PeoplesHub, we believe that online spaces — when designed with care — can be even more accessible than on-site gatherings, making movement-building more inclusive and powerful. Since 2017, we've helped movements bring their workshops, strategy sessions, and organizing spaces online, ensuring that disabled organizers and others facing barriers to on-site participation can fully engage.
When the COVID-19 pandemic pushed everyone into video conferencing, PeoplesHub was the go-to resource for accessible online facilitation. We've trained over 700 facilitators, organizers, and volunteers in best practices for online engagement, disability justice-informed facilitation, and Zoom tech support.
PeoplesHub's online workshops are grounded in radical hospitality, disability justice, and popular education — traditions that grassroots movements worldwide have used to build power and education. Our trainings are designed for peer learning, skill-building, and real world application, with structured outlines and activities that honor different learning styles.
A real-world example of PeoplesHub's impact…
Facilitating online spaces isn't just about using the right tools — it's also about fostering connection, adaptability, and creativity in how we gather. We've seen firsthand how strong online facilitation skills and tech know-how can transform communities.
When the lockdown hit in March 2020, one US co-housing community didn't just move their meetings online — they reimagined how they connected. Our lead trainer worked with over 40 residents to build the community's skills for online facilitation and video conferencing. This allowed them to continue governance meetings, committee work, and beloved social traditions like birthday celebrations and their annual two-day New Year's event. What started as a necessity became a long-term commitment to accessibility. After the lockdown was lifted, they developed several hybrid models. To this day, the community continues to host online and mixed-hybrid gatherings because they value the input and participation of elders, disabled residents, and off-site members.
The Building Our Movements Online series is about getting you started with the same tools — the ability to pivot, to design with intention, and to create spaces that work for your people. When we embrace technology with care, and add the best of what we know from the world of facilitation, we open up new ways to build power, connection, and resilience.
Process
After cost and scheduling are confirmed, we will send a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) for signature along with our payment information.
Contacts
Email Dustin Gibson Director of Programs and Strategy: dustin (at) peopleshub (dot) org.
Email Kareen Coyoca Director of Operations and Trainer Development: kareen (at) peopleshub (at) org.
Registration Cost
Sliding scale cost. To calculate your rate, find your organization's Annual Operating Budget (marked AOB) below. If your organization cannot afford this, please email info (at) peopleshub (dot) org and we’ll follow up.
- $0-1 million AOB: cost is $2,500-$3,500
- $1-2 million AOB: cost is $4,000-$5,000
- $2-5 million AOB: cost is $7,000-$10,000
- Over $5 million AOB: cost is $12,000-$16,000
Registration Info
Please fill out the request form. Clicking the link below will take you to an external website. Someone will get back to you by email.