Facilitation: Action Learning Sets
Race, Power and Privilege: Reflect and Act
BBFD invites you to join a safe online space (an action learning set) for up to 6 practitioners and leaders in the humanitarian and development sector or UK third sector to:
- Reflect on personal perspectives of race, power and privilege
- Recognise your own behaviours and workplace challenges
- Receive questions which enable deeper reflection and, importantly, enable you to identify and commit to actions
- Become a better listener on issues of importance.
An introductory session will be followed by monthly sets of 2 hours long.
Sets can be run on other themes for groups of leaders or practitioners.
Action learning sets provide a structure to explore questions, concerns, and challenges within a supportive group environment. Action learning can bring significant insights, opportunities for change, and the confidence to move forward.
Necessary and difficult conversations have begun in the aid and development sector and across the Third Sector in the UK around race, power and privilege.
#MeToo and #AidToo highlighted issues around power, privilege and gender. #BLM has more recently highlighted how uncomfortable it can be to discuss race and related power and privilege.
You may have joined webinars, podcasts, accessed resources, or had conversations on race, power and privilege but not delved more deeply into your personal behaviour and workplace challenges.
Action learning sets
can help you to reflect and identify opportunities for action. The set holds you accountable for the actions commit to.
“Deep self-reflection can help us find answers within ourselves. Somehow the process makes you see yourself more how others may see you and that helps you think about your own actions and behaviours more clearly.”
Hannah Thompson (former set member)
How Will the Action Learning Set Work?
Action learning sets are a process developed by Reg Revans in the 1950s and have been used within the aid and development sector for many years. They provide a simple but powerful way for individuals to learn from each other and identify actions which could make a positive difference. The emphasis is on learning from real experiences and challenges, using the knowledge and skills of a small group of people combined with skilled questioning to produce fresh ideas for action.
The set will be a closed online group of six members who will present issues of race, power and privilege to reflect deeply and commit to personal and professional actions towards a more just sector.
"Angie’s facilitation of the ALS really created the space for us as individuals and as a set to move our thinking and action forward. The ALS process helped us examine what we thought we could do and pushed us to consider what we perhaps thought we couldn’t do! I found it one of the most transformative processes I’ve been through and within a safe space that feels supportive as well as providing the necessary challenge to help us make change."
Corinne Davey, Director GCPS Consulting
Angie, Your Facilitator
I am a skilled, experienced, and accredited virtual Action Learning Set (ALS) facilitator. I facilitate ALSs for leaders and teams as well as for mixed groups. They have proved to be a powerful tool for empowering leaders and exploring race, power and privilege and identifying how set members can contribute to their organisation becoming more just.
I am also a coach and work as a consultant with expertise in safeguarding and child protection programming.
Examples of projects:
- Save the Children Solomon Islands- Facilitated ALSs with senior national staff
- Race, Power and Privilege- Conducted virtual ALSs with child protection and safeguarding consultants
- Action Learning SuperSet- Facilitated peer ALS
Learn more about how to join an Action Learning Set
An introductory session will be held to welcome set members and give us an opportunity to get to know each other and the action learning set process. Six action learning sets will then be held monthly.
Set members will need to commit to all the sets.
Sets will be run throughout the year
Confidentiality
All set members must commit to the confidentiality of the set. Other ground rules will be negotiated with set members.
Investment
Introduction + 6 sessions = £650
Enquire about a discounted place if you are self-funded