training & learning

For me, the past five weeks have provided eureka moment after eureka moment, much of the content has paved the way for completely new or deeper understanding, whilst some of it really helped crystallize and clarify half-thoughts or frustrations that I’ve been wrestling with for a number of years
Values 101 Workshop Participant
Values 101 Workshop Participant
Thank you for this workshop. Super helpful and it’s going to massively shift my work.
Values 101 Workshop Participant
Values 101 Workshop Participant
I really enjoyed the connections drawn between academic theory, quantitative and qualitative research, and values in practice.
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We offer a range of training and learning opportunities for those interested in getting to grips with values. Whether you want to attend an introductory session, learn more about values in a specific context, organise bespoke training for your organisation or group, or take part in our self-guided online course, there is something for everyone. 

Upcoming public workshops

We run our flagship introductory workshop series, ‘Values 101: Growing public demand for change’ several times throughout the year. Over the course of five online sessions, participants are introduced to the social psychology of values and explore how values can be engaged to generate broader and deeper commitment to pro-social and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours. This workshop series is intended for anyone who is working to engage people, or advising others who are, in social or environmental change. For example, you could be a campaigner, an organiser, a movement-builder, fundraiser, a communicator, a facilitator or a change strategist. If you’re not sure whether these workshops are right for you, but are interested in learning more about values, please drop us an email on info@commoncausefoundation.org and we’d be happy to chat. If you can’t make the current workshop dates, but would like to find out when new dates are confirmed please leave your email address below.

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[We have been running our workshops online since the beginning of 2020. We hope to offer region-specific, in-person workshops again soon. If you work in Europe and would like to discuss Common Cause bringing our training to your organisation or network (by rail!), please drop us an email.]

August

Values 101: Creating the cultural conditions for change

A 5-part online workshop series, taking place between 9am – 11am BST every Tuesday between 13th August and 10th September

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October

Values 101: Creating the cultural conditions for change

A 5-part online workshop series, taking place between 4pm – 6pm BST every Thursday throughout October

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Self-guided online course

We will soon be launching a new, self-guided online course for those who are completely new to values and want to see what all the fuss is about. At the moment we are busy behind the scenes developing lots of brand new content, but if you’d like to be the first to hear updates when we have them, please register your interest below. 

SELF-GUIDED COURSE

In-house training

Alongside our public workshops, we offer organisations the opportunity to work with us to tailor training to their specific needs and interests. You could be an NGO, a museum, a gallery, a football club, a community centre or other cultural organisation. All you need is an interest in how your work could strengthen the intrinsic values we find in society. We currently offer the following options for in-house training: 

Values 101

Exploring values in the context of your work

This workshop series is intended for staff teams within an organisation that have an interest in learning and reflecting on values together. We’ll cover the content offered in our Values 101 workshop, helping you to develop a robust knowledge of the social psychological research, but these sessions will be tailored to focus specifically on your organisation and work priorities. Whether you’re a communications, campaigns, fundraising, policy or programmes team, we can create a bespoke workshop that zooms in on values within your specific area of work. We’re equally as happy to design a workshop for a cross-section of staff from different teams to explore values-thinking within your organisation as a whole. Either way we’ll make sure you walk away understanding how values work and why they’re important, as well as how you can practically apply this learning in your day-to-day activities.

Sometimes an organisation that has asked us to run this programme has invited others from within their network to attend in order to lower the cost for them. We are very open to such an approach, but suggest a maximum of 16 participants. 

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Triangle

What’s included: 

  • An initial call to agree the scope of the training and to get to know the work of your organisation further.
  • A series of online or offline workshops of 2 hours over a period of 4-6 weeks, dependent on the agreed scope of the workshop.
  • We offer every workshop participant a one-to-one follow-up call.
  • A feedback call with the training organiser/s to discuss ways the organisation way want to consider working with values further in future.

Cost: 

The exact cost will depend on the scope of the training agreed with you, as well as the size and turnover of your organisation. We work hard to ensure that our training is available to all – regardless of budget.

To enquire about in-house training for your organisation, please contact us via this form and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

Action Learning

Putting values
into action

The purpose of action learning is to guide participants through the development of a values-led project in real life. As well as having the support of CCF, participants will be working alongside others in a supportive peer-group designed to share challenges, problem-solve together and celebrate each other’s successes.

Action learning typically begins with a recap of the research to ensure that everyone is on the same page. After that, the CCF team facilitate a series of exercises and conversations to help participants think through how to apply values-led thinking to their work in practice. Throughout the course of the programme we host coaching calls and provide opportunities for cross-learning between participants. 

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Triangle

What’s included: 

  • An initial call to agree the scope of the ALP and to get to know the needs of participants.
  • The design and the delivery of the ALP, which usually consists of participants coming together once every 2 weeks for 2 hours, with work taking place in between, check in’s and the option of conversations online through a platform such as Slack.
  • ALP’s usually last for around 10-16 weeks overall, depending on the project/s at hand.
  • During ALP’s, CCF offers a coaching/support call to all participants once every fortnight.
  • Follow up calls with all participants a month after the ALP has concluded to find out how their project is going and offer any feedback.

Ideally, an ALP cohort would include between 6 – 12 people. It could consist of:

  • Pairs or small groups working on different projects.
  • Individual participants working on separate projects.
  • A group of participants working on one project together.

Cost: 

The exact cost will depend on the scope of the training agreed with you, as well as the size and turnover of your organisation. We work hard to ensure that our training is available to all – regardless of budget.

For staff teams

A different approach to organisational values

We offer workshops for organisations with clear social or environmental purpose, to discover organisational values with meaning and resonance for the people who comprise your organisation. We can help you to explore the personal values of your staff, how these do (or don’t) align with the values that they perceive the organisation upholding, and how to close the gaps.

We can help you deepen a shared sense of purpose and community across a community of staff by surfacing and celebrating shared values, as well as equipping individuals staff members to know their own values and to identify values in action.

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Triangle

What’s included: 

  • An initial call to agree the scope of the workshops and to get to know the work of your organisation further.
  • Survey staff using the most widely available and tested model of human values, as developed by dozens of social psychology labs internationally over the last three decades.
  • Run a workshop to familiarise staff with the way values work - systems of compatibility and tension between different values, and the way in which values may be engaged subtly and unconsciously by the culture and practices of a workplace.
  • Run a workshop to identify shared values between staff, rooted in their commitment to your organisational purpose.
  • Build on this discovery of shared values to identify a palette of organisational values rooted in the motivations of the people who work for your organisation.
  • Surface areas of frustration, where staff feel that values which are core to their motivation to work for your organisation are suppressed or negated - or where psychologically opposing values are foregrounded.
  • Celebrate where staff feel that their values are upheld and promoted by their organisation, fuelling their feelings of wellbeing at work, commitment to the organisation and sense of community with one another.

Cost: 

The exact cost will depend on the scope of the training agreed with you, as well as the size and turnover of your organisation. We work hard to ensure that our training is available to all – regardless of budget.

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