Submit a Workshop Proposal - 2012 Conference

We are thrilled to open the workshop planning process to proposals! Proposals will be accepted until December 15. The planning committee will begin reviewing proposals as soon as they are submitted, and will notify proposers on a rolling basis, with final selections to be made by January 15, 2012.

Guidelines

Please read these guidelines before you submit your proposal.

This conference year is the International Year of the Cooperative. It is our time to celebrate what we represent and also to share our tools and experience with people from all different regions. Keep this in mind as you formulate your workshop ideas. We are looking for solutions to specific challenges as well as ways that worker cooperatives link up to larger solutions.

Some tips to getting your workshop accepted:
- Be specific! Often we can learn most concretely and make the bigger connections by focusing in very closely on a particular region or industry or cooperative or structure or idea. Consider how to keep it interesting by making it specific, and then how to relate it back out to our overall theme: solutions.
- Be creative! The world may not need another general "unions and coops" discussion, or "management issues in coops" workshop, but these issues are important, so consider approaching them from an unexpected angle or new vantage point.
- Be something we haven't seen before! There's always room for the basics and foundational topics, and if you're really good at those, by all means propose a workshop on a well-traveled coop topic. But what will really get you noticed is something we haven't seen yet: either a new topic, or new approach to an old topic, or a new presentation method/presenters.

All workshops must include:
- Dynamic participant interaction of some sort
- A handout or other physical artifact
- Plans to address different learning styles: visual, auditory, movement, etc.
- Stated objectives of the workshop and tools to be given to the attendees
- One-page outline of the workshop due to conference planners two weeks in advance

If your workshop is accepted, we will be available to help take your great ideas and develop techniques and curriculum to make your workshops as interactive, engaging and dynamic as possible.

Personal Information

Your Name: *

Your organization or workplace: *

Your email: *

Your phone: *

Your street address, city, state, zip: *

Biography of the planner/presenters:: *

Presenters and Audience

Who will present the workshop? What are the presenters’ background and experience?: *

Describe the format you envision: Panel, presentation, discussion, activity, etc.: *

Who is the intended audience? People from small co-ops, large co-ops, new to co-ops? Specific region, industry, sector, group? : *

How does your workshop incorporate an analysis of power and/or anti-oppression principles? How will you make it accessible and relevant to a broad range of people? Note: We also welcome workshops that may not be relevant to a broad range of people because they focus on speaking specifically to groups who are often ignored or left out of conferences like these. If this focus is your intention, please state that here.

Inclusion/power analysis:: *

Do you want to limit the size of your workshop? : *

Logistics

Workshops can be 90 minutes or 120 minutes long AND they can be 1-part or 2-part. Please select your length and parts.

Time length: *

90 minutes

120 minutes

Parts: *

1-part (either 90 minutes or 120 minutes depending on your selection above)

2-part (either 180 minutes or 240 minutes total depending on your selection above)

Do you have any scheduling preferences? : *

Does this workshop require any A/V equipment or other materials? If so, what? : *

Do you need wheelchair or other special access?: *

Do you plan to hold this workshop away from the main conference site at Northeastern University? If so, where? : *

Notes or further comments: *

PLEASE NOTE: Conference presenters are required to register for the conference. Presenters are eligible to receive complimentary registration for the day(s) they present, but they must register in order to do this. Contact conference staff to discuss registration and travel costs.

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