Sign up for Educopia's Collective Decision Making Workshop [23 June 2026, 1 - 2:30 pm ET]

[Educopia Communications]

Hello all, 

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Most of us in the knowledge sector genuinely care about equity and shared power. But when things get hard (when resources are tight, timelines are short, or the stakes feel high) our decision-making processes are often the first place those values quietly slip away. And honestly, that's not surprising, because many of us work in organizations that are under-resourced, volunteer-driven, or navigating significant transition. We care deeply about doing this work equitably, and yet we often lack the formal training or organizational infrastructure to translate those values into our actual decision-making practices.

This gap is what we're trying to address with our upcoming Collective Decision Workshop on June 23, from 1pm to 2:30pm ET. Sign up on Eventbrite via this link.

This is a 90-minute interactive session designed for archivists, librarians, facilitators, and others doing meaningful work in knowledge communities, who want their internal processes to actually reflect what they believe. We'll work through some questions that don't always get enough airtime:

• Who's really making decisions in your organization, and who should be part of that?
• What does your current process reveal about how power actually moves in your team?
• What would a more transparent, inclusive approach look like, and how do you get there from where you are now?

In the session, we'll practice tools and frameworks we've developed through nearly two decades of working alongside knowledge communities, including things we've learned from our own organizational growing pains. These tools will be assembled into a toolkit for participants, and can be immediately adapted to your own organization and context, whether you’re volunteer-driven, loosely structured, or more established.

We're offering sliding scale pricing because we want this to be accessible (more info about the rationale behind the rates at the sign up link):

• Solidarity Rate: $25
• Standard Rate: $150
• Sustaining Equity Rate: $300

And if the solidarity rate still doesn't work for you, reach out to kather...@educopia.org, and we'll figure it out together.

Hope to see you on June 23!

 

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