This training will cover both the basics of navigating the legislative process in Maine, as well as more advanced skills like winning funding for your legislation, and asking open-ended questions to assess self-interest. Lobbyists, law makers, executive directors, campaigns managers, people considering a run for office, and anyone else responsible for moving policy in the legislature will find this helpful. ... Read More

Designed to take advantage of the unique opportunities that occur when starting a new role, this training covers core leadership concepts, dealing with organizational conflict, developing sustainable workplans, and more. It is two days and one overnight at the farm in China. Because space is limited, we may not be able to accept everyone who applies. Please tell us a ... Read More

Designed particularly for communications staff and other staff or volunteers whose roles include creating and executing communications strategies, this training will cover why we do communications work and basics about the media. Attendees should expect to leave the daylong training having practiced these skills and with a packet of materials to inform their comms activities. Staff and volunteers expected to ... Read More

Timed to help people considering a run for municipal office, this training will cover how to tell your personal story, build your campaign team, and raise the money you need to win. Because space is limited, we may not be able to accept everyone who applies. Please tell us a little bit about yourself and why you want to come ... Read More

Most of us have faced challenges and had to make (sometimes impossible) choices. Telling the stories of how we found ourselves in those situations is one way we make sense of the world and start to imagine a new one. In this training we will learn the basics of personal story sharing in the context of community organizing and advocacy ... Read More

A training on how to recognize and resist authoritarianism and White “Christian” Nationalism Authoritarianism and White “Christian” Nationalism are closely linked and it’s up to us to expose that link and counteract it—for the good of our democracy and our faith. Because so-called “Christian” Nationalists and the authoritarian government they support threaten a foundation of our Constitution and our creed: ... Read More

Unconstitutional workplace arrests by federal agents are on the rise across the country. As ICE agents continue to target Maine, federal agents are relying on people not being prepared in order to get away with unconstitutional searches. We need workplaces across Maine to be educated and organized so that unconstitutional searches don't continue to work here. Join us to learn ... Read More

Open to staff and volunteers who want to learn how to talk to media so that they control the story, not the reporter or the other side. Skills will include preparing for an interview, making points and answering questions so you’re more likely to be used in the ultimate story, staying on message no matter what, and connecting with reporters ... Read More