GGN-Z Facilitation Training

About the Program 

Good Grief Network's GGN-Z Facilitation Training program is designed for people who serve climate-anxious youth & teens.

By taking our GGN-Z Facilitation Training, you can better support the young people you engage with and facilitate our GGN-Z program in your communities and organizations!

You will learn how to facilitate our GGN-Z program, created by Susan Ingras and Annalisa Galgano. This 5 session support program is designed for teens who want to get real, build resilience, and be re-inspired by joy and creativity. To learn more about this GGN-Z, click here.

In this training, we connect asynchronously for 8 weeks over our virtual platform Mighty Networks. Access your course material (including facilitation materials, GGN-Z content, and additional resources to dig deeper) even after the training ends, engage with other facilitators-in-training from all over the world, and apply your learnings to engaging conversations via forums. Your facilitators are present to answer questions about the course and teach you how to facilitate the 5-steps with the youth in your life. Please factor in 2-3 hours per week to engage in the Mighty Networks space.

For 3 sessions, you'll join your cohort and facilitators for a live practicum sessions to experience distilling the Steps and embodying the GGN-Z program. These sessions will bring to life the material learned during the asynchronous portions as you practice facilitation with your cohort. There will be plenty of space to ask questions, practice Step distillations, and engage with each other as you learn to hold space for young folks as they explore their heavy and painful feelings. It is expected that you attend these 90-minute sessions on February 28, March 21, and April 4 from 8am to 9:30am PT (more information below). 

We are not training you in a therapy modality. We will not learn how to fix young people or cure them of their overwhlem or despair. We learn emotional intelligence, deep listening, and how to share in ways that create emergent possibilities.

In this space, our facilitators will create a brave, emergent container where each participant can explore what it means to stay awake, aware, and engaged during times of great disruption, chaos, and uncertainty. We will do the deep work of facing and processing our feelings with others, so that we can care for ourselves and our communities.

Good Grief Network creates transformative spaces where we can slow down, listen deeply, create connections, build trust, and reimagine the world. We use group consciousness, grounding exercises, personal sharing, and poetry as tools for connection.  

 

Timing & Logistics

Please read the following section carefully to avoid confusion about meeting times and time zones. Good Grief Network does not offer program refunds, so please check that the timing of this group works with your schedule.

 

The reference/anchor time** for this meeting is Pacific Time Zone in United States: 

 

This training will take place over 8 weeks from  28 February - 18 April

While most of the sessions can be taken asynchronously,

there will be three live practicum sessions: 

28 February

14 March

28 March

8:00am - 9:30am  PT / 11:00am - 12:30pm ET
[check your time zone]***

 

**When we refer to the anchor time, we mean that this meeting will occur at Pacific Time Zone in United States, no matter what the local time is for you.

***Please note that on Sunday 8 March Daylight Savings Time will start in the United States. Time will change to be 1 hour forward. Please be mindful of this change prior to registering.

 

Program Fees & Scholarships

This amount can be paid in one payment or two payments. We offer the ability to pay in installments to anyone, regardless of payment tier or scholarship level.

Redistribution Rate: $500 USD 
Full Rate: $450 USD
Solidarity Rate: $400 USD

Scholarships/Work Exchanges: 

Interested in a scholarship or work exchange?

Please DO NOT complete this form.

Click here for our scholarship/work exchange application.

 

We don't want finances to be an obstacle to participation. We offer full and partial scholarships or work exchanges to folks from marginalized communities or who are fiscally constrained and need support accessing this healing work.

For more information on our sliding scale payment, please see the Program Payment section below for details.

 

Informational Session

GGN will host a (free) Informational Session to be announced soon! 

We recommend registering regardless of your ability to attend to receive the event recording directly. A recording of the event will be posted on our YouTube Channel afterwards.

Time Commitment

The online GGN-Z Training course is 8 weeks long. The majority of our sessions are presented asynchronously on the virtual platform Mighty Networks. Particpants can expect to spend 2-3 hours each week learning the week's lesson, engaging with others in the forum, and asking questions to your facilitators. There will be 3 live 90-minute practicum sessions hosted by your facilitators via Zoom to practice your facilitation, engage with your cohort, and get your questions answered. 

We expect you to engage with the course, and by completing this application, you are indicating that you have the time and space in your schedule to dedicate to this training commitment.

Accessibility

The course is hosted on Mighty Networks and the live pracitums will take place virtually over Zoom. Access and familiarity with the Zoom platform is recommended and basic training of Mighty Networks will be provided. 

This program will be hosted in English. We would like to be able to offer this training in other languages, but are still a very small nonprofit organization and do not have that capacity at this time.

Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs the facilitator team should be aware of.

Refunds

• Full refunds are available if requested at least 4 weeks before launch date.
• Partial refunds are available if request at least 2 weeks before launch date (and you haven not logged into the course platform).
• No refunds are available if request within 2 weeks of program launch or if you have logged into the course platform. 

Program Payment

Good Grief Network offers three tiers for payment for our 8-week training (this payment may be made in full or over two months):

Redistribution Rate: $500 USD

This rate is for community members who have access to structural wealth such as a stable job, investment income, or inherited wealth, and are able to pay a higher rate to support the participation of folks who pay at the solidarity rate. If you are funded by a for-profit employer who is covering the cost of this program, please opt for the redistribution rate.

 

Full Rate: $450 USD 

This rate reflects what it costs to run our program so that we can continue offering a solidarity rate, scholarships, and work exchanges. If you are funded by a non-profit employer who is covering the cost of this program, please opt for the full rate. 

 

Solidarity Rate: $400 USD 

This rate is for folks who live in fiscal discomfort or uncertainty, or otherwise lack access to financial resources.

Please consider the following questions, as well as your relative levels of wealth and privilege when choosing what pricing tier is most appropriate for you:

• How do you value the following support and education?
  • Help reframing the global predicament
  • Understanding the interconnectedness of the climate crisis & social injustices
  • Learning and practicing emotional regulation techniques
  • Access to curated resource lists
  • Space to share your feelings in a tender, brave, and supportive group with other participants who are experiencing similar challenges
  • Building a live, intimate, and trusted community for 8 weeks
    
    
• How do you value the team of facilitators that will support you?
  • We have two instructors that will guide you through the 8-week training
  • How much do you value their expertise, time, energy, and leadership?
  • Do you pay other practioners full price for their services?
    
    
• What is the value, per hour, that your culture has assigned to your time?
  
  • Please consider supporting this program with a fee that is equal to at least 15 hours at your average hourly rate
    
    
• Are you able to comfortably meet your needs?
  • If you have ample expendable income, savings, investements, inherited wealth, or otherwise have had structural advantages or access to financial resources, please consider paying the redistribution rate on the payment scale, in order to support our community members with less access to resources 
  • What payment offering feels like both a meaningful contribution for our 8-week journey and is within your means to pay?
     

Scholarship & Work Exchange Information

Interested in a scholarship or work exchange?

Please DO NOT complete this form.

Click here for our scholarship/work exchange application.

 

GGN Refund Policy

 

• Full refunds are available if requested at least 4 weeks before launch date.
• Partial refunds are available if request at least 2 weeks before launch date (and you haven not logged into the course platform).
• No refunds are available if request within 2 weeks of program launch or if you have logged into the course platform.

We ask you to please practice discernment and mutual care by being intentional with your registration.

Before booking a space, please double check your availability and the time zone of this offering and your ability to engage for 8 weeks.

Scholarship and Work Exchange Applications are available here.
Please DO NOT submit this form.