Registration is now open for this 90 min, interactive workshop [1:00 pm – 2:30 pm ET], with sliding scale pricing from $25 to $300. Learn more and register via Eventbrite [link].
Most organizations have values written down somewhere: Shared power. Inclusion. Collective care. Community accountability. These aren’t just aspirational words, they’re meant to guide how we work together, day to day.
But here’s where it gets hard: when the pressure is on, when time is short, when resources are thin, or when the stakes feel high, that’s exactly when decision-making processes tend to collapse back into whatever is fastest or most familiar. And unfortunately, fast and familiar often means top-down, opaque, and exclusionary.
For knowledge workers—archivists, librarians, facilitators, and others who steward information and community—this tension is especially acute. 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.
That’s the gap we’re trying to address.
On June 23, Educopia is hosting a 90-minute interactive workshop designed to help knowledge workers build decision-making frameworks that are more equitable, transparent, and aligned with their values. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience supporting communities in the knowledge sector, we’ll explore questions like: Who actually makes decisions in your organization, and who should? How is power distributed—formally and informally? What are the unintended consequences of your current process? And what does a more inclusive, sustainable approach look like in practice?
In doing so, we hope to open up conversations around sustainability and prioritization—helping groups that feel stuck or uncertain about what to do next and how to move forward. We’ll also share examples of tools and strategies that have worked for us here at Educopia—tools that have helped us build stronger, more sustainable, and community-driven decision-making processes. 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.
Whether you’re part of a loose volunteer collective or a well-established institution, this workshop is designed to meet you where you are. We’d love to have you with us.