Name: Liam Barrington-Bush
Pronouns: He/Him
What kinds of workshops do you do?
Facilitation, campaign strategy, collective organisation, community organising, power and privilege, working with conflict, online campaigning, collective decision making.
What brought you to facilitation?
Seeing what happens when a group doesn’t have it! But also experiencing the magic of a good consensus process when everyone is able to come to a decision that truly draws on the best of the different perspectives and experiences in the room and creates something new and better.
What groups have you worked with?
Big trade unions to small grassroots community groups; direct action collectives and neighbourhood forums; radical NGOs and student unions. Specific experience with: London Renters Union, National Council for Voluntary Organisations, People & Planet, Sweets Way Resists, British Council, Radical Housing Network, Public Service Alliance of Canada, British Youth Council, London Mining Network, TearFund, Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust and more.
What is your fave workshop to facilitate?
A good old fashioned facilitation training with folks who have never used the tools before, and watching the understanding of how groups work emerge within the space. Also anything to do with collective process and non-hierarchical organisation.
What is your fave workshop tool?
Anything that helps make folks comfortably uncomfortable.
A lil' something extra you wanna share?
Hip hop. Basketball. Tatoos. Direct action. Community. Wrote a book called Anarchists in the Boardroom. Researched a filim called Accidental Anarchist. Works on housing justice with London Renters Union. Sometimes found intervening in immigration raids. From Parkdale (Toronto, Canada), but has lived in Oaxaca (Mexico), Tottenham (London, UK) and now Bristol. Everything is local. I make my own tortillas. I talk about feelings a lot. Not well disposed to authority figures.