Partner Programs

Program OVerview

Our partner program supports organizations to strengthen the relational skills required to successfully meet their purpose. We work with your group to develop goals and customize a program that includes a series of group retreats, personalized coaching and practice plans. 

When we say relational skills, we’re referring to things like generative conflict, values-aligned accountability, and renegotiating how we hold power and difference. For a deeper look at our understanding of relational skills, please check out our six elements.

Oftentimes, good facilitation can create catharsis and breakthroughs in the “training room,” but without support for daily practice, this quickly fades. Our work supports groups to develop long-term practice plans to make the change stick.

We work with whole organizations, rather than individuals, because groups are the heart of movements. They are a place where people transform, learn how to act together, where we hold each other accountable and grow.

We work with groups that are committed to at least one of the following:

• Bringing mass numbers of people into fighting organizations to win collective power.

Examples: base-building campaign organizations, tenants unions, workers centers, labor unions

• Building working class and historically oppressed people’s control over resources (i.e. land, money, infrastructure), labor, and/or the decisions that affect our lives at scale.

Examples: worker cooperative networks, federations, and coalitions; community land trust and land stewardship projects; economic democracy projects

• Building the power and leverage of the broader mass-based, power-building Left, beyond specific sector.

Examples: electoral work increasing movement influence over policy, a popular podcast bringing mass numbers of people to identify as part of power-building Left movements, a coalition-building effort among power-building groups

Within the above strategic criteria, we prioritize groups and individuals that:

• See themselves as playing–or want to play–a role in building a broader Left, mass-based, power-building movement ecology. 
• Are open to transformation: challenging their own habits and beliefs, taking risks for the sake of growth, receiving potentially difficult feedback/assessments and integrating them accordingly 
• Are taking the reality of climate collapse and corresponding social, economic, and political crises seriously in terms of their strategy and vision

If your group is interested in working with us and you meet the above criteria, please complete this intake form and we will follow-up to schedule an initial call.

Frequently Asked Questions

“Wildfire is a blessing for activists, organizations and movements! One of the best decisions we’ve made is to work with Wildfire over the last year. They created a sacred space for us to speak our truths and listen to one another, which strengthened our internal and external communication and work in the world. And recently, when we were overwhelmed responding to the fires in the Amazon, they held much-needed space for us to come together as a team to respond with big vision for the immediate and long-term. In a few hours we gained clarity for what we needed to do. For that, we are so grateful!”

– Leila Salazar-López, Executive Director, Amazon Watch

Should Your Organization Partner WIth Wildfire?

• Do you want to build a stronger sense of agency and ownership over the work and vision of your organization?
• Are you looking for ways to navigate conflict that move the work forward instead of shutting it down?  
• Do you need to pause, regroup, and assess after a big campaign or period of growth? 
• Do you want to support your team to move through self-limiting barriers that come up in your work?
• Are you trying to figure out how to bring together personal transformation and social transformation? 
• Could your group use new ways of navigating leadership, rank, authority, and decision-making?
• Do you need support renegotiating how power, privilege, and difference show up in your team?
• Is your group continually navigating cycles of burnout? 
• Is your organization finding it challenging to adapt to the shifting political climate?
• Is your organization at a point of transition of some kind?
• Does your group feel stuck in old patterns that are no longer serving your work?

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Past Partner Program Participants

Wildfire has worked with a wide-range of groups. Here are a few of our past partners:

“Wildfire facilitation is very unique in how responsive they are to the needs of the organization. I really appreciate how much they care about our organization’s growth as well as each individual’s personal transformation. They know when to push us and when to support us. Not only do their tools and exercises help us stay accountable to our own growth, but also their facilitation style balances being both warm and friendly while also being direct in challenging us towards our edges. Wildfire facilitators have a wealth of knowledge to share and seem to really practice what they preach.”

– Jasmin Hoo, Community Organizer, Asian Pacific Islander Equality Northern California

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