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BUILD THE CAPACITY TO LEAD
IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY
BUILD THE CAPACITY TO LEAD IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY
Overview
Too many mission-driven leaders are burned out, isolated, and overwhelmed by challenges that standard leadership training fails to address. They’re not hungry for more content, but for more capacity to lead effectively in the face of complexity, challenge, and change.
That’s exactly why The Arc of Change exists.
Founded by Abel R. Cano, The Arc of Change helps leaders build the courage, craft, and capacity to lead change, without burning out.
Abel R. Cano is a leadership trainer, community organizer, and storyteller with over 15 years of experience training thousands of leaders across nonprofits, governments, universities, and grassroots movements. He has worked directly alongside Professor Marshall Ganz for over a decade and taught across multiple Harvard schools. As one of the most experienced trainers in the global Leading Change Network, Abel teaches Public Narrative and Community Organizing with fidelity and craft;Â delivering powerful, heart-led programs that help people effectively lead change in the face of uncertainty.
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Abel developed his flagship program, The Liberation Leadership Lab, while earning his graduate degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He launched it at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, and it has since become a globally resonant leadership program, trusted by mission-driven institutions for its transformative impact.
We don’t offer surface-level workshops. We create brave learning spaces: cultivating conditions for courage, centered in story, grounded in strategy, sustained by structure, and guided by soul.
Our approach blends community organizing, public narrative, and mindfulness in action. It cultivates leaders who lead with alignment between head, heart, and hands. Through experiential learning and a powerful 4-part pedagogy, our programs move beyond information to embodied leadership.Â
Founded by Abel R. Cano, The Arc of Change helps leaders build the courage, craft, and capacity to lead change, without burning out.
Abel R. Cano is a leadership trainer, community organizer, and storyteller with over 15 years of experience training thousands of leaders across nonprofits, governments, universities, and grassroots movements. He has worked directly alongside Professor Marshall Ganz for over a decade and taught across multiple Harvard schools. As one of the most experienced trainers in the global Leading Change Network, Abel teaches Public Narrative and Community Organizing with fidelity and craft; delivering powerful, heart-led programs that help people effectively lead change in the face of uncertainty.
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Abel developed his flagship program, The Liberation Leadership Lab, while earning his graduate degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He launched it at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, and it has since become a globally resonant leadership program, trusted by mission-driven institutions for its transformative impact.
We don’t offer surface-level workshops. We create brave learning spaces: cultivating conditions for courage, centered in story, grounded in strategy, sustained by structure, and guided by soul.
Our approach blends community organizing, public narrative, and mindfulness in action. It cultivates leaders who lead with alignment between head, heart, and hands. Through experiential learning and a powerful 4-part pedagogy, our programs move beyond information to embodied leadership.Â
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS
Bridge the gap between learning and leading
In this workshop, you won’t just learn about leadership, you’ll practice it.
You’ll explore each craft step-by-step through our four-part experiential pedagogy: Explain, Model, Practice, Debrief.
- Explain the core element of the practice
- Model what it looks like in action
- Practice in small groups with expert coaching and real-time feedback
- Debrief and crystallize your learning, gaining wisdom from the group
This structure bridges theory and action, so you don’t just understand organizing, you embody it.
You’ll be guided by expert facilitators, supported by personalized coaching, and immersed in a learning environment where your presence makes a difference, because real leadership is built through relationships.
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS
Bridge the gap between learning and leading
In this workshop, you won’t just learn about leadership, you’ll practice it.
You’ll explore each craft step-by-step through our four-part experiential pedagogy: Explain, Model, Practice, Debrief.
- Explain the core element of the practice
- Model what it looks like in action
- Practice in small groups with expert coaching and real-time feedback
- Debrief and crystallize your learning, gaining wisdom from the group
This structure bridges theory and action, so you don’t just understand organizing, you embody it.
You’ll be guided by expert facilitators, supported by personalized coaching, and immersed in a learning environment where your presence makes a difference, because real leadership is built through relationships.
Public Narrative:Â Â
Storytelling as a Leadership Practice
Motivated Leaders. Stronger Teams. Massive Results.
Public Narrative is storytelling as a leadership practice.Â
When facts alone aren’t enough to move people, story becomes essential. It helps leaders access the emotional resources required to exercise agency, enabling our hearts to equip our heads to guide our hands.Â
Developed by Professor Marshall Ganz at Harvard University and taught by Abel R. Cano, Public Narrative empowers leaders to translate values into action and enable the leadership of others through a Story of Self, Us, and Now.
Whether you’re leading a team, growing a movement, or stepping into your voice for the first time, this is your foundation.
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Schedule a ConversationPublic Narrative is storytelling as a leadership practice.Â
When facts alone aren’t enough to move people, story becomes essential. It helps leaders access the emotional resources required to exercise agency, enabling our hearts to equip our heads to guide our hands.Â
Developed by Professor Marshall Ganz at Harvard University and taught by Abel R. Cano, Public Narrative empowers leaders to translate values into action and enable the leadership of others through a Story of Self, Us, and Now.
Whether you’re leading a team, growing a movement, or stepping into your voice for the first time, this is your foundation.
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Schedule a ConversationWhat You’ll Learn
In this full-day, experiential workshop, you’ll learn the Public Narrative framework step by step:
- Introduction to Public Narrative:Â Learn a powerful approach to leadership and how narrative works
- Story of Self:Â Why you are called to leadership
- Story of Us:Â The shared values and lived experiences that connect us as a community
- Story of Now:Â The urgent challenge we must respond to, and your call to collective action
- Linking:Â Learn how to weave all three stories together into one clear, compelling Public Narrative
You’ll leave with a powerful, purpose-driven narrative, and a leadership practice you can return to whenever the moment calls for it.
You’ll be equipped to lead with story across contexts like:
- Fundraising campaigns
- Team meetings
- Relationship-building conversations
- Staff retreats or orientations
- Campaign rallies
- Legislative testimony
- Public speaking engagementsÂ
…and anywhere else your leadership is needed.
What You’ll Learn
In this full-day, experiential workshop, you’ll learn the Public Narrative framework step by step:
- Introduction to Public Narrative:Â Learn a powerful approach to leadership and how narrative works
- Story of Self:Â Why you are called to leadership
- Story of Us:Â The shared values and lived experiences that connect us as a community
- Story of Now:Â The urgent challenge we must respond to, and your call to collective action
- Linking:Â Learn how to weave all three stories together into one clear, compelling Public Narrative
You’ll leave with a powerful, purpose-driven narrative, and a leadership practice you can return to whenever the moment calls for it.
You’ll be equipped to lead with story across contexts like:
- Fundraising campaigns
- Team meetings
- Relationship-building conversations
- Staff retreats or orientations
- Campaign rallies
- Legislative testimony
- Public speaking engagementsÂ
…and anywhere else your leadership is needed.
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What Makes This Different
This isn’t storytelling as a pitch, script, rap, or performance.
It’s a relational, values-driven leadership practice.
It builds trust. Strengthens teams. Ignites courage.Â
And it invites people to take action, not just through reason, but through shared purpose and heart.
What You’ll Walk Away With
By the end of the workshop, you (or your team) will walk away with:
- Greater trust, vulnerability, and connection through shared values
- A shared language and culture of leadership
- A complete Linked Public Narrative
- A clearer sense of purpose and calling
- Confidence to speak and lead with authenticity
- A framework you can adapt, teach, and deploy again and again
Whether you’re an individual leader or a full team, this workshop builds the mindset, skillset, and shared culture needed to organize with depth and lead with integrity.
By the end of the workshop, you (or your team) will walk away with:
- Greater trust, vulnerability, and connection through shared values
- A shared language and culture of leadership
- A complete Linked Public Narrative
- A clearer sense of purpose and calling
- Confidence to speak and lead with authenticity
- A framework you can adapt, teach, and deploy again and again.
Whether you’re an individual leader or a full team, this workshop builds the mindset, skillset, and shared culture needed to organize with depth and lead with integrity
What You’ll Walk Away With
By the end of the workshop, you (or your team) will walk away with:
- Greater trust, vulnerability, and connection through shared values
- A shared language and culture of leadership
- A complete Linked Public Narrative
- A clearer sense of purpose and calling
- Confidence to speak and lead with authenticity
- A framework you can adapt, teach, and deploy again and again.
Whether you’re an individual leader or a full team, this workshop builds the mindset, skillset, and shared culture needed to organize with depth and lead with integrity
Lead With Story Now.
Join a global network of leaders, organizers, educators, artists, and activists transforming the world, one story at a time.
The Liberation
Leadership Lab:
Agency, Identity & Renewal
Awaken Agency. Lead with Courage. Advance Liberation.Â
In the nonprofit sector today, burnout is no longer an exception, it’s the norm.
Leaders and staff alike are overwhelmed by rising tensions, chronic turnover, and an exhausting culture of conflict avoidance and quiet quitting. Many are questioning whether it’s even possible to stay in the work they once felt called to.
The truth is, leading real change requires more than wanting things to be better. It demands a different kind of leadership.Â
This six-session journey equips leaders to embrace challenges with courage, build bridges across difference, and reclaim the agency to lead with integrity, even in the face of complexity, challenge, and change.
Developed by Abel R. Cano at Harvard University, The Liberation Leadership Lab™ was created to meet this moment.
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Schedule a ConversationIn the nonprofit sector today, burnout is no longer an exception, it’s the norm.
Leaders and staff alike are overwhelmed by rising tensions, chronic turnover, and an exhausting culture of conflict avoidance and quiet quitting. Many are questioning whether it’s even possible to stay in the work they once felt called to.
The truth is, leading real change requires more than wanting things to be better. It demands a different kind of leadership.Â
This six-session journey equips leaders to embrace challenges with courage, build bridges across difference, and reclaim the agency to lead with integrity, even in the face of complexity, challenge, and change.
Developed by Abel R. Cano at Harvard University, The Liberation Leadership Lab™ was created to meet this moment.
Schedule a ConversationWhat You’ll Learn
In this 6-session peer-learning experience, you’ll explore essential skills for democratic practice. This work is grounded in a unique liberatory approach to personal and collective change:
Session 1:
Liberation as a North Star
Establish the foundation for mindful, values-aligned leadership by recognizing the patterns that undermine your agency. Learn to overcome them to empower yourself and others with clarity, intention, and skill.
Session 2:
Building the People’s House – Dismantling Systems of Oppression
Uncover how systems shape the challenges you and your community face, and gain practical tools to dismantle barriers while leading effective, values-driven change.
Session 3:
Responding vs. Reacting – Navigating Triggers
Learn emotional and relational skills to navigate your own triggers and those of others, respond rather than react, build bridges across difference, and repair rupture to foster a culture of interdependence.
Session 4:
Self-Authorship – Whose Story Are You Living?
Liberate yourself from the stories written for you so you can lead with authenticity, clarity, and freedom. Break through your limiting beliefs and explore the power of letting go to lead with greater ease.
Session 5:
Integration Day – Breaking Through Resistance
Transformation requires applying what you’ve learned to your own contexts. This session helps you break through resistance, adapt insights to your leadership and mission, and develop an actionable plan to create lasting impact.
Session 6:
Rest, Renewal & Celebration
Leadership is a marathon, not a sprint. This session helps you design your own rhythms of renewal that will keep you grounded, joyful, and deeply connected to your purpose.
 You’ll leave with a living framework for leadership rooted in values, vision, and sustainable action that you can return to whenever the moment calls.
You’ll Be Equipped to Lead Across Contexts Like:
- Organizational leadership and executive roles, such as guiding teams through change, clarifying direction, or cultivating a more values-aligned culture
- Community organizing and grassroots campaigns, mobilizing people around a shared purpose and building lasting power
- Leadership coaching and team facilitation, supporting others to grow, take initiative, and step into leadership
- Teaching, mentoring, or education leadership, creating learning environments that center agency, reflection, and equity
- Multi-racial coalition building and equity-focused strategy, navigating power dynamics and building bridges across difference
- Leadership transitions or life pivots, leading yourself and others through periods of uncertainty or reinvention
- Team building and internal culture work, shifting from burnout to sustainability, from silos to collaboration
- Conflict resolution and relational repair, transforming tension into trust and strengthening your team’s resilience
…and anywhere else your leadership is needed.
You’ll Be Equipped to Lead Across Contexts Like:
- Organizational leadership and executive roles, such as guiding teams through change, clarifying direction, or cultivating a more values-aligned culture
- Community organizing and grassroots campaigns, mobilizing people around a shared purpose and building lasting power
- Leadership coaching and team facilitation, supporting others to grow, take initiative, and step into leadership
- Teaching, mentoring, or education leadership, creating learning environments that center agency, reflection, and equity
- Multi-racial coalition building and equity-focused strategy, navigating power dynamics and building bridges across difference
- Leadership transitions or life pivots, leading yourself and others through periods of uncertainty or reinvention
- Team building and internal culture work, shifting from burnout to sustainability, from silos to collaboration
- Conflict resolution and relational repair, transforming tension into trust and strengthening your team’s resilience
…and anywhere else your leadership is needed.
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What Makes This DifferentÂ
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Practicing leadership means having the courage to show up with integrity, even when it’s hard.
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This work cultivates your courage to lead by unleashing more of you:Â your wholeness, your wisdom, your liberation.
It’s not about grinding harder. It’s about leading in alignment with your values.
Whether you're an individual leader or part of a team, The Liberation Leadership Lab builds the mindset, practices, and community that make sustainable, values-aligned leadership possible.
What You’ll Walk Away With
A deeper, more empowered sense of agency—with the clarity to recognize what limits it, the skills to reclaim it, and the courage to lead from it
- The emotional and embodied capacity to lead with courage through uncertainty, challenge, and complexity
- A leadership mindset shift from avoidance and overwhelm to responsibility and clarity
- An expanded capacity to navigate conflict, build bridges across difference, and translate divergence into progress
- Skills to cultivate and repair transformational relationships grounded in trust, shared values, and mutual commitment
- Practices for rest, reflection, and renewal, so your leadership sustains and nourishes you, rather than depletes you
- A people-powered approach to leadership rooted in shared values, collective purpose, and real-world impact
- A supportive community of peers committed to justice, integrity, and collective liberation while helping you translate insights into action and improve outcomes across your team and organization.
- The emotional and embodied capacity to lead with courage through uncertainty, challenge, and complexity
- A leadership mindset shift—from avoidance and overwhelm to responsibility and clarity
- An expanded capacity to navigate conflict, build bridges across difference, and translate divergence into progress
- Skills to cultivate and repair transformational relationships—grounded in trust, shared values, and mutual commitment
- Practices for rest, reflection, and renewal—so your leadership sustains and nourishes you, rather than depletes you
- A people-powered approach to leadership—rooted in shared values, collective purpose, and real-world impact
- A supportive community of peers committed to justice, integrity, and collective liberation — while helping you translate insights into action and improve outcomes across your team and organization.
Whether you’re feeling stuck, seeking restoration, or ready to lead more powerfully than ever—this is your foundation.
What You’ll Walk Away With
A deeper, more empowered sense of agency—with the clarity to recognize what limits it, the skills to reclaim it, and the courage to lead from it
- The emotional and embodied capacity to lead with courage through uncertainty, challenge, and complexity
- A leadership mindset shift from avoidance and overwhelm to responsibility and clarity
- An expanded capacity to navigate conflict, build bridges across difference, and translate divergence into progress
- Skills to cultivate and repair transformational relationships grounded in trust, shared values, and mutual commitment
- Practices for rest, reflection, and renewal, so your leadership sustains and nourishes you, rather than depletes you
- A people-powered approach to leadership rooted in shared values, collective purpose, and real-world impact
- A supportive community of peers committed to justice, integrity, and collective liberation, while helping you translate insights into action and improve outcomes across your team and organization.
Whether you’re feeling stuck, seeking restoration, or ready to lead more powerfully than ever, this is your foundation.
Lead to Liberate
Join a global network of mission-driven leaders reclaiming their power and advancing liberation, one act of courage at a time.
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COMMUNITY ORGANIZING:
PEOPLE, POWER, CHANGE
Enable Others. Build Power. Lead Change.
Many leaders feel called to create change, but find themselves overwhelmed, isolated, or unsure how to invite others to join them.
Community Organizing is how we move from people who live together to people who stand together, transforming the world as it is into the world as it could be.
Organizing is a leadership practice rooted in the belief that lasting change happens when those most impacted by a problem become authors of their own solutions.
Developed by Professor Marshall Ganz at Harvard University, this workshop teaches you how to build the leadership capacity of others through story, strategy and structure.
As a mission-driven leader, this is your path to lead in the face of uncertainty, build distributed leadership, and create lasting change.
Many leaders feel called to create change, but find themselves overwhelmed, isolated, or unsure how to invite others to join them.
Community Organizing is how we move from people who live together to people who stand together, transforming the world as it is into the world as it could be.
Organizing is a leadership practice rooted in the belief that lasting change happens when those most impacted by a problem become authors of their own solutions.
Developed by Professor Marshall Ganz at Harvard University, this workshop teaches you how to build the leadership capacity of others through story, strategy and structure.
As a mission-driven leader, this is your path to lead in the face of uncertainty, build distributed leadership, and create lasting change.
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Schedule a ConversationWhat You’ll Learn
In this 2.5-day experiential training, you’ll learn six core organizing practices:
- Introduction to Organizing:Â Gain a clear framework for leading change by enabling others to achieve shared purpose under conditions of uncertainty.
- Leadership Coaching:Â Develop the ability to support others through challenges in ways that grow their leadership and enable meaningful progress.
- Public Narrative: Craft a Story of Self, Us, and Now that articulates your call to leadership, helps create an “us” in the room, and calls others to meaningful action.
- Transformational Relationships:Â Build transformational relationships rooted in shared values, not transactional ones based solely on the issues, to create a meaningful foundation for collective power and action.
- Team Structure:Â Design distributed and interdependent leadership teams, with shared commitment and accountability, that scale leadership capacity to achieve both short and long-term goals.
- People-Centered Strategy: Craft strategy rooted in your people’s lived experience, grounded in values, shaped by real challenges, and designed to turn resources into power for lasting change that improves daily life.
- Mobilizing for Action:Â Move people to act through clear, compelling calls to action that build momentum and deepen commitment over time.
This isn’t a plug-and-play formula. You’ll leave with a dynamic framework for leadership: rooted in story, strategy, and structure. A framework that you can adapt, apply, and return to every time the world calls you to lead.
In this 2.5-day experiential training, you’ll learn six core organizing practices:
- Introduction to Organizing – Gain a clear framework for leading change by enabling others to achieve shared purpose under conditions of uncertainty.
- Leadership Coaching – Develop the ability to support others through challenges in ways that grow their leadership and enable meaningful progress.
- Public Narrative – Craft a Story of Self, Us, and Now that articulates your call to leadership, helps create an “us” in the room, and calls others to meaningful action.
- Transformational Relationships – Build transformational relationships rooted in shared values—not transactional ones based solely on the issues—to create a meaningful foundation for collective power and action.
- Team Structure – Design distributed and interdependent leadership teams—with shared commitment and accountability—that scale leadership capacity to achieve both short and long-term goals.
- People-Centered Strategy – Craft strategy rooted in your people’s lived experience—grounded in values, shaped by real challenges, and designed to turn resources into power for lasting change that improves daily life.
- Mobilizing for Action – Move people to act through clear, compelling calls to action that build momentum and deepen commitment over time.
This isn’t a plug-and-play formula. You’ll leave with a living framework for leadership—rooted in story, strategy, and structure—that you can adapt, apply, and return to every time the world calls you to lead.
What You’ll Learn
In this 2.5-day experiential training, you’ll learn six core organizing practices:
- Introduction to Organizing:Â Gain a clear framework for leading change by enabling others to achieve shared purpose under conditions of uncertainty.
- Leadership Coaching:Â Develop the ability to support others through challenges in ways that grow their leadership and enable meaningful progress.
- Public Narrative: Craft a Story of Self, Us, and Now that articulates your call to leadership, helps create an “us” in the room, and calls others to meaningful action.
- Transformational Relationships:Â Build transformational relationships rooted in shared values, not transactional ones based solely on the issues, to create a meaningful foundation for collective power and action.
- Team Structure:Â Design distributed and interdependent leadership teams, with shared commitment and accountability, that scale leadership capacity to achieve both short and long-term goals.
- People-Centered Strategy: Craft strategy rooted in your people’s lived experience, grounded in values, shaped by real challenges, and designed to turn resources into power for lasting change that improves daily life.
- Mobilizing for Action:Â Move people to act through clear, compelling calls to action that build momentum and deepen commitment over time.
This isn’t a plug-and-play formula. You’ll leave with a dynamic framework for leadership: rooted in story, strategy, and structure. A framework that you can adapt, apply, and return to every time the world calls you to lead.
You’ll Be Equipped to Lead Across Contexts Like:
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- Community-based campaigns or advocacy efforts
- Civic engagement, voter organizing, and policy work
- Leadership development and movement-building
- Strategic planning and change management
- Cross-sector coalitions or collective impact initiatives
- Staff-led initiatives or cross-functional teams
…and anywhere people are coming together to create meaningful change.
You’ll Be Equipped to Lead Across Contexts Like
- Staff-led initiatives or cross-functional teams
- Community-based campaigns or advocacy efforts
- Civic engagement, voter organizing, and policy work
- Strategic planning and change management
- Leadership development and movement-building
- Cross-sector coalitions or collective impact initiatives
…and anywhere people are coming together to create meaningful change.
You’ll Be Equipped to Lead Across Contexts LikeÂ
- Community-based campaigns or advocacy efforts
- Civic engagement, voter organizing, and policy work
- Strategic planning and change management
- Leadership development and movement-building
- Cross-sector coalitions or collective impact initiatives
- Staff-led initiatives or cross-functional teamsÂ
…and anywhere people are coming together to create meaningful change.
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What Makes This DifferentÂ
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We don’t just teach about leadership, we create experiences that require it.
Where most trainings focus on tasks and titles, we focus on story, strategy, and structure.
Whether you’re an individual leader or a full team, this workshop builds the mindset, skillset, and shared culture needed to organize with depth and lead with integrity.
What You’ll Walk Away With
By the end of this training, you (or your team) will walk away with:
- A leadership mindset shift, from control at the center to capacity at the center, empowering others through interdependent leadership
- A shared language, framework, and culture of leadership your team can carry forward
- A strategy that turns lived experience into power by aligning people, values, and action toward meaningful change
- Coaching skills to navigate challenges and grow leadership in others, without creating dependency
- Stronger relationships built through authenticity, shared values, and shared experience
- A campaign plan rooted in your people’s lived experience, with a clear problem analysis, strategic goal, map of actors, theory of change, and timeline for action
- A deeper sense of clarity, confidence, and agency to lead in uncertain times
- A structure for scaling leadership, designed to sustain engagement, distribute responsibility, and build movements over time
Whether you’re leading a program, organizing for justice, or building something meaningful from the ground up, this is your foundation.
By the end of this training, you (or your team) will walk away with:
- A leadership mindset shift—from control at the center to capacity at the center—empowering others through interdependent leadership
- A shared language, framework, and culture of leadership your team can carry forward
- A strategy that turns lived experience into power—aligning people, values, and action toward meaningful change
- Coaching skills to navigate challenges and grow leadership in others—without creating dependency
- Stronger relationships built through authenticity, shared values, and shared experience
- A campaign plan rooted in your people’s lived experience—with a clear problem analysis, strategic goal, map of actors, theory of change, and timeline for action
- A deeper sense of clarity, confidence, and agency to lead in uncertain times
- A structure for scaling leadership—designed to sustain engagement, distribute responsibility, and build movements over time
Whether you’re leading a program, organizing for justice, or building something meaningful from the ground up—this is your foundation.
What You’ll Walk Away With
By the end of this training, you (or your team) will walk away with:
- A leadership mindset shift—from control at the center to capacity at the center—empowering others through interdependent leadership
- A shared language, framework, and culture of leadership your team can carry forward
- A strategy that turns lived experience into power—aligning people, values, and action toward meaningful change
- Coaching skills to navigate challenges and grow leadership in others—without creating dependency
- Stronger relationships built through authenticity, shared values, and shared experience
- A campaign plan rooted in your people’s lived experience—with a clear problem analysis, strategic goal, map of actors, theory of change, and timeline for action
- A deeper sense of clarity, confidence, and agency to lead in uncertain times
- A structure for scaling leadership—designed to sustain engagement, distribute responsibility, and build movements over time
Whether you’re leading a program, organizing for justice, or building something meaningful from the ground up—this is your foundation.
By the end of this training, you (or your team) will walk away with:
- A leadership mindset shift from control at the center to capacity at the center, empowering others through interdependent leadership
- A shared language, framework, and culture of leadership your team can carry forward
- A strategy that turns lived experience into power by aligning people, values, and action toward meaningful change
- Coaching skills to navigate challenges and grow leadership in others, without creating dependency
- Stronger relationships built through authenticity, shared values, and shared experience
- A campaign plan rooted in your people’s lived experience, with a clear problem analysis, strategic goal, map of actors, theory of change, and timeline for action
- A deeper sense of clarity, confidence, and agency to lead in uncertain times
- A structure for scaling leadership, designed to sustain engagement, distribute responsibility, and build movements over time
Whether you’re leading a program, organizing for justice, or building something meaningful from the ground up, this is your foundation.
Build People Power Now
Join a global network of organizers, educators, artists, and leaders transforming the world, one campaign at a time.
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Specialized Support
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Targeted offerings to deepen leadership, build capacity, and unlock transformation.
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At The Arc of Change, we understand that leadership challenges are complex, and real growth takes practice and support.
Our specialized offerings are designed for leaders, teams, and organizations looking for customized support in developing the people and practices that make change possible. We strengthen your leadership practice through coaching, high-impact workshops, and capacity-building programs,
Each of the offerings below can be delivered virtually or in person. Take a look, and if you’d like to explore them together, let’s talk.
At The Arc of Change, we understand that leadership challenges are complex, and real growth takes practice and support.
Our specialized offerings are designed for leaders, teams, and organizations looking for customized support in developing the people and practices that make change possible. We strengthen your leadership practice through coaching, high-impact workshops, and capacity-building programs,
Each of the offerings below can be delivered virtually or in person. Take a look, and if you’d like to explore them together, let’s talk.
Introductory Workshops & Modular Trainings
High-impact workshops introducing foundational frameworks in leadership, organizing, and storytelling. Ideal for teams looking to deepen practice or onboard new members. Each session runs 3 hours and is designed for immediate application.
Topics include:
- Introduction to Public Narrative & Story of Self
- Introduction to Organizing
- Introduction to Coaching
- Introduction to Relationship Building
- Introduction to Team Building
- Introduction to Strategy I: Getting Focused, Strategic Goal, Map of Actors & Theory of Change
- Introduction to Theory of Change
- Introduction to Strategy II: Tactics & Timeline
- Introduction to Mobilizing for Action
- Introduction to Liberation as a North Star: Mindfulness in Action
Modules can be booked individually or bundled into a customized training arc.
1:1 Leadership Coaching for Changemakers (6 or 12 sessions)
Coaching rooted in the People, Power, and Change or The Liberation Leadership Lab framework, designed to help you lead more effectively across story, strategy, and structure.
Whether you’re launching a project, managing a team, coordinating a campaign, or stepping into leadership for the first time, this coaching strengthens your ability to move people toward meaningful action.
What makes this coaching unique is its focus on your real, immediate challenges. Together, we’ll work directly on what’s most pressing, whether that’s clarifying your strategy, navigating team dynamics, or growing your leadership capacity.
Together, we’ll work to:
- Strengthen your ability to coach others and develop leadership
- Expand your emotional and relational capacity to navigate conflict, build trust, and lead through uncertainty
- Clarify your strategic goal or theory of change
- Strategize and adapt effectively under pressure
- Move others to act through values-based leadership
- Align your day-to-day work with your long-term purpose
- Clarify your leadership purpose and align your daily work with your long-term vision
Together, we’ll identify the head, heart, and hands obstacles holding you back and build the skills and mindset to overcome them. This is coaching that builds power and confidence.
Ideal for executive directors, organizers, educators, program leads, team managers, and emerging leaders.
For even deeper learning, we recommend pairing coaching with the full Community Organizing training, then using 1:1 sessions to practice the skills you’ve learned, and reflect on practice-based feedback to experience even greater impact.
1:1 Public Narrative Coaching: Lead with Story (5 sessions)
Craft the story only you can tell, and learn to lead with it.
Public Narrative is more than storytelling, it’s a leadership practice. In these 1:1 coaching sessions, you’ll receive expert guidance to develop a fully linked Story of Self, Us, and Now that moves people to act.
Together, we’ll surface the lived experiences that shape your values, build connection through shared purpose, and articulate a clear, urgent call to action. Whether you're preparing for a keynote, leading a campaign, or stepping into your voice for the first time, this process helps you claim your story and build power.
You’ll leave with:
- A fully developed and deliverable Public Narrative ready for your next organizing meeting, fundraiser, keynote, or campaign
- Greater confidence to speak from the heart and lead with authenticity
- A lifelong leadership skill you can adapt and return to in moments that matter
- Deeper clarity on your calling, values, and why your voice matters
- The ability to build trust, deepen connection, and move others to action
- Coaching that helps you craft and communicate the story you were born to tell
This is ideal for organizers, educators, fundraisers, executive leaders, or anyone ready to inspire others and lead with story.
For even deeper learning, we recommend pairing coaching with the full Public Narrative training, then using 1:1 sessions to practice the skills you’ve learned, and reflect on practice-based feedback to experience even greater impact.
Your story matters. Let’s help you tell it with clarity, courage, and craft.
1:1 Breakthrough Session: Clear Blocks. Reclaim Power. Create Momentum
Break through the patterns that have held you back for years in a single day.
This is transformational coaching that helps you release what’s holding you back at the root. so you can move forward with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Drawing on powerful tools like Mental and Emotional Release®, Time Line Therapy®, and rooted in neuro-associative conditioning and mind-body integration, this intensive session helps you shift deeply held beliefs, resolve emotional blockages, and unlock the energy you need to make bold, aligned moves.
Whether you’re at a turning point, feeling overwhelmed by internal conflict, or simply ready to move past what’s no longer serving you, this is the reset you’ve been searching for.
You’ll walk away with:
- Freedom from limiting beliefs and stories that have kept you stuck
- Clarity on your goals, and the energy to pursue them with purpose
- Alignment between your conscious goals and subconscious patterns, so you can pursue your goals with greater ease and flow
- Renewed confidence and motivation to take bold, meaningful action
- A felt sense of possibility and momentum
- Simple, effective tools to stay grounded and aligned as you move forward
This session is ideal for leaders, educators, creatives, and change-makers ready to let go of what’s weighing them down and lead with their full power.
Group Facilitation: Team Retreats & Purposeful Dialogue
Facilitation support for teams, retreats, and planning sessions.
We offer customized facilitation to help your group think clearly, collaborate effectively, and make meaningful progress. Whether you're hosting a retreat, navigating a key decision, or planning what's next, we create the structure and space that brings your team into deeper alignment and action.
Each engagement includes:
- A thoughtfully designed agenda grounded in your team’s goals
- Facilitating group dialogue and authentic collaboration to achieve key outcomes
- Build and strengthen team culture, creating alignment, motivation, and the conditions to sustain your work
- A focused debrief to identify next steps and shared commitments
Ideal for executive teams, leadership teams, committees, departments, or cross-functional groups looking to think, plan, and act together with intention.
Community of Practice: Apply the Learnings, Deepen the Work, Sustain the Growth
 Change doesn’t end when a training does. In fact, that’s where the real work begins.Â
Our Communities of Practice (CoP) offer an ongoing, facilitated space to deepen your leadership, stay accountable to your purpose, and strengthen your skills in community with others.
Each cohort is centered around one of our core frameworks — The Liberation Leadership Lab, Community Organizing, or Public Narrative — and is designed to extend the impact of the work beyond a single workshop.
Led by experienced facilitators from The Arc of Change, these sessions blend structured dialogue, peer coaching, and real-time practice, creating a brave space where you can apply what you’ve learned, reflect on your leadership, and keep growing with others on a similar path.
You’ll walk away with:
- Clear integration of the frameworks into your day-to-day leadership practice
- Accountability and encouragement to practice in real time
- A brave and supportive space to test ideas, share insights, and grow in community
- Focused coaching and real-time reflection
- Opportunities to take on peer leadership roles and grow facilitation skills
- Regular touchpoints to stay aligned with your values, purpose, and impact
Ideal for:
Alumni of The Arc of Change programs, nonprofit or movement leaders, trainers, coaches, educators and teams looking to build internal leadership capacity and embed this work more deeply into their organization or community.
Each circle typically meets monthly for 120 minutes over a 6-month period and can be delivered virtually or in-person. Let’s talk about creating the right cadence and focus for your team or network.
Training for Trainers: Build Internal Capacity. Deepen the Craft. Scale Impact
Train your leaders to deliver with excellence, skill, and impact.
When you’re ready to build internal capacity and scale your leadership development efforts, our Training for Trainer programs provide the frameworks, training, and coaching to get you there.
These programs are designed for organizations and institutions seeking to integrate the frameworks of Community Organizing and Public Narrative into their culture, while maintaining the rigor, depth, and transformational impact of the craft.
Each training for trainer track includes:
- Comprehensive training in the frameworks and methodology
- Pedagogical design and facilitation best practices
- Coaching protocols and applied practice
- Observation, feedback, and coaching from our expert team
- A certificate of completion, with pathways for continued mentorship and growth
You can choose from four tracks:
- Coaching Public Narrative
- Teaching Public Narrative
- Coaching Community Organizing
- Teaching Community Organizing
Whether you’re preparing internal staff to train others, integrating these frameworks in your programs, or building a leadership pipeline from within, this is how you scale transformation with integrity.
Ideal for:Â Nonprofits, universities, foundations, grassroots campaigns, and leadership development organizations looking to certify internal trainers, build long-term capacity, and deepen the reach of their leadership work.
