Transform your skills for animals at LEAD
June 5-8, 2023 | Malibu, CA
Explore LEAD’s Workshops
Learn more about LEAD’s two workshops, then select the one most relevant to you when completing your application for LEAD.
WORKSHOP 1
Optimizing Capacity by Cultivating Organizational Health
Learn to retain and engage top talent to achieve your organization's mission and goals.
As leaders of mission-driven organizations, we tend to focus on programs (campaigns, fundraising, and volunteer management) that feel directly tied to the mission.
However, when we lose sight of organizational health, teams lose motivation to contribute at their highest level, turnover increases, and we become distracted from the mission. Prioritizing organizational health leads to greater impact. It is in direct alignment, rather than in competition, with every organization's mission.
In workshop 1, learn from renowned leadership trainer Paloma Medina the psychology, tools, and everyday leadership behaviors that increase employee motivation and team resilience and result in stronger long-term impact in mission-driven organizations.
Who should attend workshop 1?
Workshop 1 is designed for the primary decision-makers within organizations, in particular, organization leaders such as executive directors, presidents, or CEOs.
If you are not an executive director (or similar) but still have significant decision-making capacity for the organization (e.g. as the COO, chief of staff, or member of senior leadership team) or are a senior leader in HR/operations, you are welcome to apply with a letter of support from your organization’s leader indicating that they will work with you to incorporate learnings.
WORKSHOP 2
Building a People-Powered Movement for Animals
Become a catalyst in transformational change and run people-powered campaigns that inspire and build a movement.
Organizations in the animal rights movement often work in silos, foregoing opportunities to capitalize on the exponential power of collaboration. Learn to build connections with different movements, engage varied stakeholders and organize people power to grow and sustain the farmed animal movement.
Learn the key principles of movement building from experienced organizers and social justice leaders.
Topics include building strong cross-movement coalitions, mobilizing the public, recruiting and developing activist leaders, community organizing, and more.
In workshop 2, learn from three insightful trainers from Beautiful Trouble, an international network of artist-activist-trainers helping grassroots movements become more creative and effective.
Rae Abileah (she/they) is a social change strategist, author, and editor for collective liberation. She is a trainer and project manager at Beautiful Trouble and co-creator of the global Climate Ribbon art ritual. She was the co-director of CODEPINK, consulted on digital strategy for social justice at ThoughtWorks, and now runs her own consultancy, CreateWell. Rae is a contributing author to books including Beautiful Trouble and Beyond Tribal Loyalties: Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists. Rae graduated from Barnard College at Columbia University and received ordination by the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute. She’s a first-generation American, and her Dutch and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry informs her work toward dismantling white supremacy. She brings a commitment to the rights of nature and specifically animals and climate justice.
Carolina Munis has been working to strengthen social movements in Brazil since 2013. As a former member of Escola de Ativismo (School of Activism), she developed activist learning programs based on popular and ethical education. She also coordinated multiple experimental funding initiatives for movements and small organizations and currently manages a philanthropy program for communities fighting for land rights and against systemic violence. Carolina is enthusiastic about all forms of collective organizing and researches and implements regenerative governance and self-management practices in social organizations, activist groups, and communities. She was co-editor of Revista Tuíra, a Brazilian magazine focused on contemporary activism, and collaborates with Beautiful Trouble.
Sarah Nahar, M. Div, (she/they) is a nonviolent action trainer, interspiritual theologian, scholar-activist, and PhD candidate studying ecological sanitation. She served as the director of Community Peacemaker Teams and now focuses on ecological regeneration, community cultivation, and spiritual activism. She is deeply influenced by the opportunities she's had to participate in collective practices of unarmed civilian accompaniment, transnational Black vegan feminism, and interspiritual solidarity. Other interests include working on dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery, community organizing, and capoeira.
Who should attend workshop 2?
Workshop 2 is designed for volunteers or paid staff members who play a role in organizing actions or initiatives that recruit and engage other people to contribute to our movement.
This could include but is not limited to: organizers, campaigners, and coalition members/leaders. We are looking to build a diverse cohort of people from grassroots groups to larger organizations - so if you think you fit the bill, please apply!
