Hello ,

We hope that this email finds you well! We are excited to announce the launch of a brand new tool we have developed called the Training Pool. This is a new online experience that is designed to help us schedule trainings, workshops, and cohorts all built around your needs and interests

Over more than a decade, we have trained so many social change leaders across the globe working on a vast range of different issues, from housing and immigration to criminal justice and the cooperative economy. Yet, we find that we have observed that our conventional scheduling methods often lots of activists, social change leaders, and movement organizers from participating in our trainings due to since they aren't offered at the right time or in the right format.

To solve that issue, we have created the Training Pool, which allows you to join a group of participants who all want to receive similar material and schedule the training whenever it would be best for you within a period of six months. 

With the launch of the Training Pool, you'll also notice new training offerings on themes we haven't covered as much in the past, such as Introduction to Alternative Institutions and Cultures, Introduction to Ancestral Wisdom, Introduction to Emotional Resiliency, and Introduction to Coordination Fundamentals just to name a few. These new topics give fresh perspectives on social movements, personal transformation, and organizational fundamentals that any social change leader needs, regardless of experience level. We invite you to explore these new offerings and discover how they can benefit you.

Here's how the Training Pool works:

1) Sing up by filling out a form to mark which trainings you are interested in attending - we have a series of workshops which are marked in orange that last about 3 hours long and help introduce to you a topic - and we have cohorts which are deeper dive into certain concepts.

2) Provide us with some basic contact information - let us know if you have any preferences in taking the workshop or cohort - be it in person in our Boston-based Movement Training Center, online, spread out over several weeks, or in a condensed two-day format.

3) Within six months, once enough sign-ups come in, we will start the process of calendaring the training, where a member of the Ayni team will reach out to you for a quick phone call and start scheduling a training that works for the majority people that have signed up - don't worry if the time doesn't work for you - we'll find alternatives that can meet your needs.

The Training Pool seeks to fundamentally change how we schedule trainings so that everyone who wants to take part in a training is able to, despite the constraints of our schedules.

We hope that these new training offerings will help meet the pressing needs you and your organizations might be facing and that this tool can help us train more leaders for the level of change we need in our world. 

In reciprocity, 

The Ayni Team

P.S.: If you would like to join us for the inauguration of our new training center in Revere, MA, on Friday, June 21st, 2024 at 6 PM, you can RSVP here.