We are living in an era of profound uncertainty.

Old systems are breaking down. Trusted or dominant narratives are unraveling. Grief, rage, fear, and injustice are moving through our communities, our institutions, and our homes.

In times like these, change is a constant and how we engage with change matters deeply.

Some of the most consequential leadership and facilitation today is not happening on stages or in boardrooms. It’s happening in living rooms, around dinner tables, inside organizations under strain, within families navigating difference, and among friends trying to stay in relationship while the ground shifts beneath them.

These times are calling forward those with the desire and the capacity to transmute – to take what is and move toward what’s possible.

To become more skilled with uncertainty. More convicted about our visions and values.

More aware of how to care for and serve others without abandoning ourselves.

Facilitating Change is an invitation into that work.

This training is for people who sense that we are not just responding to the present moment, we are laying the foundation for what comes next. For the cultures we want to create. For the ways we want to relate to power, pain, difference, and repair.

This is about embodying the change you wish to see as you support the people and spaces you are in relationship with through challenge, conflict, and transformation.

Facilitating Change is a one-day live intensive focused on building real, embodied facilitation capacity for this moment.

Over the course of the day, you will be taught and guided through three essential facilitation skills, each explored in a 90-minute live workshop.

Facilitation, as we are working with it here, is:

The skillful use of your power and presence to influence the relationships, experience, learning, or transformation of a group of people.

That group might be:

• a classroom, team, or organization

• a community or movement space

• a family, partnership, or circle of friends

The skills are the same. The stakes are often higher when the relationships are closer.

This training is not about scripts or formulas. It’s about discernment, grounding, and ethical influence.

The Three Skills We’ll Work With

💡 Workshop One: Holding Vision Through Collapse (May 31 @ 10:00 – 11:30 am EST)

This workshop focuses on the skill of navigating the space between what is and what’s possible.

You’ll explore how to:

• Stay present with grief, rage, and fear without bypassing or fixing

• Hold vision without forcing outcomes or denying pain

• Use emotions as information rather than obstacles

• Support others to remain engaged with reality while still orienting toward possibility

This is the practice of staying with what is – and moving toward what could be – without abandoning either.

💡 Workshop Two: Claiming and Wielding Your Authority (May 31 @ 12:30 – 2:00 pm EST)

This workshop focuses on your relationship to power and influence.

You’ll explore how to:

• Ground yourself in your knowledge, worldview, lived experience, and capacity

• Influence without domination or coercion

• Lead without self-abandonment

• Trust that your presence and clarity do not inherently cause harm

This is about learning to stand in your authority – ethically, relationally, and with integrity – especially when decisions matter and stakes are real.

💡 Workshop Three: Practicing Beloved Community (May 31 @ 3:00 – 4:30 pm EST)

This workshop focuses on relating to difference and cultivating cultures where rupture is not the end of relationship.

You’ll explore how to:

• Engage difference without erasing or escalating it

• Normalize rupture as part of real relationship

• Build capacity for repair rather than avoidance

• Participate in creating cultures where accountability and care coexist

This is the practice of facilitating spaces where conflict does not destroy connection – because repair is known, expected, and practiced.

Who This Is For

This training is for people who are already holding relational responsibility, formally or informally.

This includes:

• Facilitators, educators, leaders, organizers, and guides

• People holding teams, communities, or learning spaces

• Parents, caregivers, and partners navigating family systems

• People who often become the “bridge” in conflict

• Those others turn to when things get hard

You may not call yourself a facilitator, but if your presence shapes how others move through challenge, you are already facilitating change.

This training is for those who want to:

• Be more skillful with uncertainty

• Hold vision without bypassing pain

• Engage power with clarity and care

• Face harm and move toward repair

• Lay foundations for healthier cultures and relationships

This Training Is Not For You If:

• You are looking for therapy or a personal healing space

• You want quick fixes, scripts, or formulas

• You are unwilling to examine your relationship to power and influence

• You want to avoid discomfort rather than learn how to work with it

Registration for Facilitating Change closes May 30th. Early bird pricing ends April 30th!

Payment plan available here.

What’s Included

• (3) live 90-minute workshops via Zoom on May 31st

• Lifetime access to workshop recordings (can’t make it to the full day? Catch up on your own time!)

• 6 months of access to New World Studio

About New World Studio

New World Studio is ongoing space and support for realizing our dreams (for ourselves and our world).

You’ll have 6 months of complimentary access to:

💡 Vision Cafés (60 minutes, live on Zoom every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month)
💡 AMA’s (Ask Me Anything) (30ish minutes, monthly, live on Substack)
💡 Andréa’s Resource Archive (50+ hours of workshops/workbooks/courses including Coaching as Activism, Rise Up: Visionary Business for These Times, and several Liberatory Workshops & Workbooks)

Hi! I’m Andréa (she/they pronouns).

For most of my life, I’ve been living in the question: “How can I live, work and relate in a way that supports and contributes to positive social change?“

Finding my answers to this question has been my life’s journey and I lovelovelove partnering with others who are also living in this question and supporting them in finding their own answers.

I began creating offerings like this for my peers, colleagues and comrades when I was 20 years old. Over 10 years and thousands of participants later, so much has changed for me and within me, but one thing has been constant: my desire to remind people of their power.

There is too much pain and unnecessary suffering to tend to in our world for us to be stuck in inaction.

So I’m committed to doing what I can with who I am and what I have over the course of my life. This offering is a part of my contribution. Should you decide to join me for this Facilitating Change adventure, I hope that it’ll be a catalyst, a challenge, and a comfort for you, as you engage in making your own contribution.

If you’re interested in the nitty gritty about me:

I facilitate. I write. I create. I speak. I sing. Very black, very queer, very into God. I’m 31 years old and I call Chicago, IL home. I’m a Leo, extroverted introvert, 6/2 mental projector in Human Design and a plant mama. I feel most led by the work of Audre Lorde, Octavia Butler, bell hooks, Adrienne Maree Brown, Jenn McCabe, June Jordan, Mariame Kaba, Relational Uprising, James Olivia Chu-Hillman, Sasha Heron and many more.

Ready to sign up?

Registration for Facilitating Change closes May 30th. Early bird pricing ends April 30th!

Payment plan available here.

Have questions?

Send me an email at [email protected] or DM me on Instagram @andrearanaej!

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Registration for Facilitating Change closes February 28th.

Payment plan available here (2 monthly payments of $230).