The National Association of Community-Driven Climate Resilience Planners (NACRP) is building a facilitators’ community of practice and referral network within the field of community-driven planning. Those who attend at least 6 of the 12 workshops will be eligible to join the network. The NACRP is made up of grassroots organizations, community-based facilitators, and champions for racial equity within government and philanthropy dedicated to transforming the culture of climate action planning from top-down to community-driven.

This workshop series is rooted in place-based action learning, where the hope is that participants will be bringing knowledge from their own work/communities, as well as applying what they learn in the workshops to existing community-driven efforts.

All Workshops will include the following elements:

• Overview of the principles & practices of community-driven planning

• Time for reflection on the work participants are doing in the communities to which they are accountable

• Sharing of stories, lessons, and methods from leaders experienced in community-driven planning

• Dialogue between participants

• Pre- and post- exercises for participants

• The chance to follow-up in a peer consultancy circle where participants can share challenges they have and discuss them with other facilitators

Essential Elements of Community-Driven Planning

This interactive online workshop sets the foundation for practicing community-driven planning in your own communities. You will gain confidence in describing the core principles and practices which will be described directly through the voices of grassroots leaders across the country who exemplify vision, power and solutions on the frontlines of environmental and racial justice, such as:

• Anasa Troutman, The Big We

• Colette Pichon Battle, Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy

• Claudio Rodriguez, Regeneración - Barrio Campesinxs

• Gloria Walton, The Solutions Project

• Jacqui Patterson, NAACP Environmental & Climate Justice Program

• Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, Green Squash Consulting, and author of Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet

• Miya Yoshitani, APEN

• Mónica Huertas, The People's Port Authority in Providence, RI

• Nwamaka Agbo, Kataly Foundation

• Strela Cervas, Strela Cervas Consulting

Facilitated by Rosa González of Facilitating Power, Julian Mocine-McQueen of The Million Person Project, and Corrine Van Hook-Turner of Climate Innovations.

Designing a Community-Driven Just Transition Planning Process

The transition from exploitation and extraction to resilience and regeneration takes all of us. In this interactive, online workshop, you will gain insights and tools for designing a local/regional Just Transition planning process that links community power, vision, and solutions. You will receive a planning guide and toolset developed in collaboration with the Climate Justice Alliance, as well as design principles rooted in Afro-Indigenous Permaculture, as described by:

• Pandora Thomas, Earthseed Permaculture Center

Facilitated by Rosa González of Facilitating Power, Julian Mocine-McQueen of The Million Person Project, and Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish of Climate Innovations.

Fueling the Revolution for (Energy) Justice

This online workshop will be led by the NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice (ECJ) Program, whose units, branches, and state conferences are leading the way in energy justice. We are at the forefront, fighting for community-owned solar, anti-fracking bills, local hire provisions and MANY more initiatives that create clean air, clean energy, and economic justice for all.

We will explore how community-driven planning efforts can be applied to ending corporate greed in non-renewable, toxic energy that poisons frontline communities and taking the power – both utility power and social power – back to the people where it belongs.

Facilitated by the NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice (ECJ) Program.

Methods for expanding ideas of what’s possible for the next seven generations

In this interactive online workshop you will learn a range of creative methods for community visioning. How can we expand our ideas of what is possible? What does it look like to vision for the next seven generations? How can we maintain a visionary focus while engaging in the nuts and bolts of community-driven planning? How can we best partner with artists and engage the power of the arts in our community visioning efforts. We will explore these questions and more with visionary leaders, such as:

• Anasa Troutman, The Big We

• Cece Carpio, Trust Your Struggle

• Colin Miller, EJ Solutions

• Michelle Mascarenas-Swan, Movement Generation

Facilitated by Rosa González of Facilitating Power & Julian Mocine-McQueen of The Million Person Project

Strategies and tactics for building political, economic, and cultural power for a Just Transition

Different from conventional public planning methods, community-driven planning is rooted in a long tradition of community organizing. In this interactive online workshop, we will explore the following questions:

• What role does community power building play in community-driven planning?

• What forms of community power are key to developing and implementing solutions to the problems we face?

• How can we better balance uneven power dynamics and ensure democratic decision-making?

• What are strategies and tactics for moving from dominant forms of power to liberatory power?

• How can we grow our capacity for self-governance?

And we will hear stories of community power in action from grassroots leaders building community power for racial and environmental justice, such as:

• Claudio Rodriguez, Regeneración - Barrio Campesinxs

• Gloria Walton, The Solutions Project

• Jessica Tovar, Local Clean Energy Alliance of the Bay Area

• Michelle Mascarenas-Swan, Movement Generation

• Miya Yoshitani, APEN

• Strela Cervas, Strela Cervas Consulting

Facilitated by Rosa González of Facilitating Power & Julian Mocine-McQueen of The Million Person Project

Our communities are best suited to identify what we need to survive and thrive through crisis. Solutions development takes 1) assessing the threats we face and the strengths we hold to address those threats, 2) developing or identifying the strategies and tactics that create the kind of transformative change needed to get at the root causes of those threats, and 3) collectively implementing them. In this interactive, online workshop, we will explore community-driven solutions development through the voices and experiences of grassroots leaders at the intersection of economic transformation, ecological health, and the deepening of democracy. Speakers via video include:

• Miya Yoshitani, APEN

• Mónica Huertas, The People's Port, Providence

• Monica Atkins, Climate Justice Alliance

full spectrum capital, community-driven infrastructure, non-extractive investments

A Just Transition signifies a deep economic transformation rooted in interdependence. How can we resource the solutions our communities need in ways that disrupt patterns of extraction, exploitation and dependency? In this interactive, online workshop, we will explore a framework for community wealth building and the range of mechanisms communities are using to seed solutions, while cultivating economic justice and long-term community wealth building. Speakers include:

• Michelle Vassel of the Wiyot Tribe and David Cobb of Cooperation Humboldt

• Leseliey Welch of Birth Center Equity

• Katt Ramos and Sydney Fang of Our Power Richmond

• Damien Goodmon, Downtown Crenshaw Rising

Facilitated by Taj James of Full Spectrum Capital Partners, Julian Mocine McQueen, & Rosa González of Facilitating Power

Methods for Community Assessment through Intergenerational Participatory Action Research

Community-driven planning puts the tools of assessment in the hands of community members. In this interactive online workshop, we will learn creative, life-affirming popular education methods for intergenerational participatory action research. The Coliberate Participatory Action Research process seeks to:

• Support the leadership and existing expertise of community members whose lives are and will be most directly impacted by any local, city, or municipal planning.

• Support community members of all ages to conduct their own research, align around their own analysis and strategies to “sit at the planning table” and participate in subsequent phases as leaders, not as token community representatives.

• Identify the priorities, visions, goals and strategies of the community.

Facilitated by Levana Saxon and Tatiana Chatterji of the Partners for Collaborative Change

Identifying Community Priorities

How do communities identify their priorities for action? What processes and methods are organizers and community-based facilitators using to find alignment across generations, cultures, and diverse needs and strengths? How can we build genuine consensus? Is it possible to identify and act on a set of priorities without in some way excluding some voices and needs in the community? In this interactive, online workshop we will explore these questions with support from the voices and experiences of community leaders, organizers and facilitators from Environmental and Climate Justice, Migrant Justice, Restorative Economics, and Transformative Justice movements.

Facilitated by Colin Miller and Marybelle Nzegwu of EJ Solutions

Circle-based approaches to addressing conflict and past harms

Generations of institutionalized harm against Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities manifests in many ways, including conflict and harm between community members. Addressing these conflicts can be key to being able to move forward together as a community. In this interactive online workshop, you will gain an introduction into some of the methods and next practices for addressing conflict and harm in ways that cultivate community healing and reconciliation.

Guest facilitators: Jovida Ross and Rose Elizondo

Political education for navigating local systems

Having established a shared vision and community priorities, a community is better equipped to intervene on public planning processes. In this interactive, online workshop, you will learn strategies and tactics for asserting community priorities within public planning processes and achieving the kinds of policy and systems change needed to sustain community-driven solutions and ensure impacted communities have a voice in the decisions that impact them.

Facilitated by Leah Obias and Emi Yoko of Race Forward with guest speakers...