Betsy Raasch-Gilman provides training in a wide range of social change skills. She facilitates meetings and teaches groups about group process, consensus decision-making, and productive conflict. Training for boards of nonprofit organizations and cooperative businesses is a particular strong point for her. She helps organizations to develop their own strategic plans, and assists activists involved in campaigns to think strategically about their next moves. Her main love is preparing groups for direct action in the streets, and passing on the long and inspiring story of nonviolent struggles around the globe. All of her training is done with attention to the dynamics of gender identity, sexual orientation, class, race, age, religion, and physical ability in a group.

Betsy has worked primarily in the Midwest, though starting in 1999 she has trained for and participated in global justice mobilizations around North America. Farmers, neighborhood organizers, church-based activists, veterans, environmentalists, students, labor unionists, social service providers, and activists with developmental disabilities are some of the people Betsy has trained with.

Betsy has an undergraduate degree in history and Spanish from Grinnell College, and a Masters of Divinity from United Theological Seminary. She is a student of radical history, and has published several studies of 20th-Century radical women in Minnesota.

Contact Betsy at raaschgilman@gaiavoices.net

• Printer-friendly version
• Send to friend
• PDF version