Training

The Midwest Academy offers the following regularly scheduled trainings:

Organizing for Social Change - Organizing for Social Change is the Midwest Academy’s signature training. Progressive organizers from a wide variety of organizations and varying years of experience spend five days honing concrete skills that enable them to build power, recruit and develop leaders, think strategically, win issue campaigns and develop strong organizations

Supervisiors of Organizers - This workshop gives supervisors a chance to step back from meetings on the run in order to evaluate themselves as supervisors and develop a plan that meets the needs of their organization and the organizers they supervise.

Midwest Academy Advanced Strategy Seminar - In this session, participants will begin the actual research and planning to set their issue campaign on an effective path, and leave with a concrete strategy to build power and win social justice. This session addresses developing clear and winnable campaign goals, building organizational power, broadening and deepening your membership, identifying and researching targets, and creating tactics that will have a direct impact on your target.  This session is led by organizers and trainers with decades of experience. Participants will spend three days researching and refining strategies for their own issue campaign, receive extensive direct consultation, and leave with a blueprint for action.