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Tools Carousel with the Fito Facilitators
February 22, 2023 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
About this event
Networks are the incredible, invisible forces with the potential to reshape our world. They enable us to address complex problems, rapidly spread innovations, and mobilize billions to shift power and mindsets.
Globally, 1000’s of networks, movements, and community action groups are piloting norm-breaking approaches by leveraging relationships for social change. Yet nearly all are under-funded, disconnected and highly misunderstood.
The Fito Network was launched to change that. As a diverse global network of hundreds of network leaders – and the funders and conveners that support them – our goal is to work together to reshape the way we make change.
And to help you realize that you are not alone.
Our first “tool carousel” will showcase a variety of network and community facilitation methods
Curious how to deepen connections and trust? Struggle with creating space for everyone to have a voice – without it taking up too much time? Looking for a new and creative way to engage your community?
Our tool carousels have something for everyone! In each event, there will be two rounds where you can select a tool you’re curious about. You’ll then enter the breakout room of your chosen tool, where Fito Facilitators will guide you through a rapid overview and practice of the tool.
Together we will explore tools like:
- Hosting needs and offers marketplaces with your community
- Co-creating ideas and goals through creative techniques
- Mapping a community’s shared identities
- Fostering group wellbeing and gratitude
- Mapping user and stakeholder journeys
- Engaging in inclusive and participatory dialogue
- Promoting deep listening and building trust
- Making consensus-based decisions collectively
We will also use this as an opportunity to launch our collaborative impact methods kit, a community-curated database of 500+ techniques and tools to unleash collective change.
With our Fito Facilitators
A pool of highly skilled network facilitators, with experience in facilitating engaging and participatory experiences that are embedded within broader community and network-building journeys, including:
What you can expect
Key audience takeaways will focus on:
- Practical facilitation techniques you can directly apply in your community or network
- A broad database of tools to support your future community engagement
After the event, we’ll also leave the room open for an additional 15 minutes for those who want to develop connections and relationships with other network leaders.
Fito (“fee-toh”), from the Sesotho language in Southern Africa, means “joining diverse pieces to make one powerful effort”.
We are weaving an inclusive and diverse network of network leaders, community coordinators, capacity builders, and supportive funders to increase their collective impact and reshape the way we make change.
Together, we aim to:
- Learn deeply, bridging diverse knowledge for peer support and innovation
- Experiment collaboratively around new methods and cross-network models for impact
- Shift the support ecosystem, increasing resourcing and valorizing networks as essential to social change
Learn more about what we are trying to do, and sign up to stay updated or join our network.