This is a live, online event where you’ll participate actively with facilitators and other participants! We will send login information one week before the event, so please make sure you enter your email correctly when you register. 

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In order to build community and protect confidentiality in the space, we do not record our workshops. If you miss a training date, we cannot provide you with a recording of the training.

Registration for this training is offered on a sliding scale. If your personal or organizational budget allows, please pay the full fee so we can keep registration accessible for leaders and organizations who may not be in the same position. Greater access strengthens us all!

Planning on purchasing five or more registrations at once? You’re eligible for a 20% discount off your order total.  For more information on bulk discount eligibility, please visit our FAQ or contact us at workshops@compasspoint.org.

We strongly encourage participants to first take either Supervision: Relationships and Structures That Help Us Thrive and/or Coaching Skills for Leaders before taking this training!  

White supervisors have disproportionate control and positional power within social justice organizations, movement spaces, and the nonprofit sector. If we’re going to shift power across our organizations, transforming the way white supervisors show up is key.

This training provides tools and space with peers to deepen your commitment to dismantling white supremacy culture and practice liberatory and transformational supervision skills.

This is a space for white supervisors to reflect on and practice skills to interrupt fragility, defensiveness, paternalism, and other habits that get in the way of sharing power – without relying on Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color to do the work for you!

We will build shared commitments toward sharing power and dismantling white supremacy in our supervision relationships and across teams, explore accountability, practice designing liberatory supervisory relationships, and build on important skills like receiving feedback. We’ll also get grounded in a shared history of supervision and racial capitalism and how it links to the current context of BIPOC suppression and exclusion in nonprofits and social justice organizations.

Who is this training for?

This is a space for white supervisors who work at nonprofit organizations and / or in social justice movement spaces who are ready to take on the work of sharing power and dismantling white supremacy in their supervision practices. We strongly encourage participants to first take either Supervision: Relationships and Structures That Help Us Thrive and/or Coaching Skills for Leaders before taking this training. We encourage teams of 2-5 to register together so you can bring back collective ideas and practices to your organization!
 

In this online workshop, you will:

1. Explore what shared power is and deepen a personal commitment to it in your supervision practice.
    

2. Recognize your opportunity and responsibility to cultivate shared power in social justice and nonprofit organizations.
    

3. Identify personal and institutional barriers to shared power, their connection to white supremacy culture, and learn and practice skills to overcome them.
    

Explore CompassPoint blogs related to this training:

• Supervising in a Crisis: Slowing Down and Focusing on Relationships by Hana Lee
• ​Grappling with Feedback: Lessons in Trying, Failing, and Trying Again by Learkana Chong
   

Content Facilitators:

Rebecca Aced-Molina

Laura Eberly

Tech Facilitators:

Emros Smizer

Get ready to participate!

Our trainings come alive with your participation and willingness to engage. Please be ready to participate by sharing your experience, creativity, questions, and challenges with us.  For example, we will have conversations in small groups, use roleplay and scenario practice, and make space and time for personal reflection and creating commitments.

This is a multi-day offering. Please make sure you can attend all dates before registering and that you are familiar with our cancellation policy.

Accessibility is very important to us! Closed captioning will be provided. If you require specific accommodations (for example, receiving screen reader-friendly versions of learning materials ahead of time), please notify us at workshops@compasspoint.org two weeks in advance of the scheduled offering so that we can do our best to meet your needs. ASL interpretation is not provided unless requested.