Labor Educator Training: Secrets of a Successful Organizer
Build your teaching and facilitation skills!
Join the WA LERC and Labor Notes for a two-day educator training to build skills running participatory organizing trainings in your own organization.
Learn best practices of Participatory Adult Education:
During the two days, you will get a grounding in the basics of adult learning and popular education, and will learn to facilitate effective and engaging trainings. We’ll cover the basics of facilitating participatory discussions and activities, creating spaces for challenging discussions, and other essential skills.
Learn to facilitate the Secrets of a Successful Organizer curriculum: Secrets of a Successful Organizer is a renowned book and training series that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step. The curriculum is broken down into three workshops that teach how to identify the key issues in the workplace, build campaigns to tackle them, anticipate management’s tricks and traps, and inspire co-workers to stand together despite their fears.
During the Labor Educator Training, you’ll get introduced to the curriculum, will get to practice facilitating it, and will come away with skills to facilitate it in your own organization.
Who:
Member-leaders, staff, and educators with experience in workers’ rights organizations, community organizations, and unions who are looking to become stronger facilitators and trainers are welcome to apply. Ideal applicants will have read Secrets of a Successful Organizer or have participated in the trainings before, and should have an expectation that they will in the future be able to actually facilitate trainings in their organizations or with their peers.
Participating in this training can be a good way to prepare for the National Labor Notes Conference in Chicago coming in June 2026.
When:
Friday, March 6th, 9:00 – 4:00 and Saturday, March 6th, 9:00 – 4:00
Where:
South Seattle College Georgetown Campus (map)
Costs:
Registration will be $50 per person and will include coffee and lunch.
How to Apply:
Spaces are limited so applicants will be selected with consideration to a balance of fields, sectors, and organizational experience. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until spots are filled, please fill out the application form here to be considered!
About Labor Notes:
Labor Notes is a media and organizing project that has been the voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement since 1979. Labor Notes is a media and organizing project that has been the voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement since 1979.Through its magazine, website, books, conferences, and workshops, it promotes organizing, aggressive strategies to take on employers, labor-community solidarity, and unions that are run by their members.
About the Washington Labor Education and Research Center
The WA LERC was established in 1987 to provide direct education and research services in higher education to unions in Washington State. The mission of the Labor Center is to deliver high-quality education and training programs for the dynamic and diverse working people of Washington State by using best practices of adult education. The curriculum builds the skills, confidence, and knowledge needed for working people to become leaders in efforts to improve their work lives and communities and to promote a just economy through collective action.