Another thing we’re celebrating is that we’ve finally made the move to a new website making it,much easier to share our resource lists with you! You can find them on the resources page – and we’ll be adding to them and refining them as time goes by.

Of course, there have been huge changes outside of Navigate too. As the Covid-19 situation develops worldwide, we’re adapting what we’re offering to online settings. We’re exploring what the groups we work with most need to be effective and healthy during this crisis and how those things will continue to support us all to work collaboratively, equitably and caring for the needs of all life in the future. We’re still keen to hear from you, but do please be advised that we can’t commit to ‘in person’ meetings until social distancing measures are no longer necessary.
We’re excited to continue employing creative and innovative ways for working online, so do get in touch if you’d like support with....  

• making a tricky decision in your group
• engaging with conflict that’s alive or slumbering in your group
• crafting agreements and systems that will support your group to work together effectively and that serve everyone

... for example in the form of online workshops or online coaching

We offer our work for free to unfunded grassroots groups and for groups with an income we have a sliding scale, meaning you pay what you can afford. Contact us for more details on this.

Saturday 12th January 2019, 10.30 –5.30pm, Bristol
The class system is embedded in all of our lives and its not surprising that when we organise for social and environmental justice in our groups and networks that the same class oppressions are often perpetuated. This one day workshop aims to give space to reflect on our own experience of class, to build awareness of how class oppressions are reproduced in our groups and what we can do to change that, so that we can create stronger and more effective groups and movements for social change.

Thursday evening 28th February – Sunday 3rd March 2019

Would you like to learn how to facilitate groups that are stuck in disagreement to move forwards?
Do you want to better support groups to come up with decisions that work for everyone?
In this 3-day training, we will be exploring a process called Convergent Facilitation and learning how to facilitate effective collaborative decision-making. Convergent Facilitation is a method for bringing a group to decisions that everyone supports, by going into the disagreement and finding a way forward that includes what really matters to everyone involved.

Over the past few months we ran taster workshops in Sheffield, Manchester, Bristol and London, covering these topics: Power dynamics, when decision-making gets stuck, sustaining ourselves, and conflict in groups. We chose topics that many groups are struggling with, so we hope these workshops offered some insight and support.

18th – 23rd September 2018,  Brussels, Belgium
A residential Training for Trainers in ‘connection-work’ (verbindingswerk), exploring the Work that Reconnects, integrating an anti-oppression framing and marginalized perspectives, whilst building your facilitation skills and confidence

28th February & 29th March
Almost all groups have moments when they’re going round in circles while trying to make a decision. This can feel like a waste of time, and can drain the group of its energy. Sometimes people resign themselves to this way of working, but it doesn’t have to be like this! There are ways to get out of this stuck place, and into making decisions that work for everyone.

10th April & 16th May
Conflict in a group can be profoundly challenging; like wading through a swamp, or like a whirlwind pulling everyone in and tearing things apart. Though conflict can be intensely painful, it’s possible to find ways through it together. Conflict can be a sign that change is needed, and engaging with it can help a group to have more resilience, strength and energy for action.

What can you do when someone in your group or organisation says that someone else within the group has been sexually violent [1] or abusive to them? What if that person is central to the group, is really nice to you, seems to have a great analytical understanding of power and privilege – surely they wouldn’t. It can feel confusing, uncomfortable and sometimes painful to take those claims seriously but it’s important that we do. Drawing on my own experience of supporting other survivors and of disclosing to my own community, here are some things you might want to think about.