Hi all,

There's been a lot of interesting in teaching the Ally Skills Workshop to Wikimedians, especially those with a lot of responsibility for resolving disputes or moderating users. The Ally Skills Workshop teaches people with more power and privilege practical everyday ways of supporting people with less. I taught an Ally Skills Workshop at the 2015 Wikimania in Mexico City and got a lot of positive response. I would love to see this workshop be available to more Wikimedians.

In an ideal world, the people teaching this workshop would be experienced Wikimedians themselves. I'm teaching a train-the-trainers on Sunday, January 15 in Oakland, California, and would love to see Wikimedians there:

https://frameshiftconsulting.com/2016/11/26/ally-skills-workshop-train-the-t...

There's also an online version on January 22.

As a reminder, the Ally Skills Workshop materials are all licensed CC BY-SA. :)

Thanks for your time,

-VAL