Each Gamaliel affiliate offers regular sessions for 50 to 100 leaders to introduce new leaders to basic concepts of organizing or develop established leaders’ skills around outreach, voter registration, power analysis and recruitment. 

Local training's are held on a regular basis and are conducted by local staff and leaders, as well as organizers and leaders from throughout the Gamaliel network.

Training areas typically include, but are not limited to, power, self-interest, outreach (one-on-one meetings), issues and actions, effective meetings, power analysis, and agitation.

Four times a year, the Gamaliel Foundation holds a National Weeklong Leadership Training for clergy and laity.

The weeklong training curriculum helps participants recapture the language of power and self-interest, engaging them in a struggle to define their own values, confront their fears, embrace their life ambitions, and harness their passion to create a world that is consistent with their faith values.

Trainees are led to see the importance of initiating and developing public relationships based upon mutual self-interest.

The one-on-one meeting is introduced and utilized throughout the week as the key tool to becoming a leader and to creating powerful organizations.

Participants are challenged to develop a public life and to declare the risks they will need to take to create that path for themselves.

Trainees learn about the nature of power organizations and how to conduct a community power analysis.

Sessions on effective meetings, issues and actions, strategic issue campaigns and fundraising offer concrete practical tools.

Finally, the art of agitation is introduced in a formal session, although it is utilized by the trainers throughout the week as a powerful tool to move leaders into action based on their values and self-interest. The end of the week focuses on planning and reflection for life back at home.

Training's are offered quarterly in English and Spanish in the United States and three times a year in South America.

Clergy must balance the demands of developing their institutions with addressing issues of justice.  Tools, concepts and methodologies for becoming effective clergy leaders make up this three-day annual program run by and for clergy whose congregations belong to an affiliate organization. 

Gamaliel National Clergy Training offers a theological, congregational and pastoral grounding for faith-based community organizing.

This training is designed by and for clergy who want to build their congregations, become powerful in the public arena, and deepen their understanding of the biblical mandates for justice and community.

“She who walks with lions and carries her own things”

An annual women's leadership training program conducted by and for women. 

It approaches our methodology from a women’s perspective and provides a support network that helps women overcome internal and external obstacles on the journey to becoming a powerful, effective leaders.