The ACRE Community of Practice
Connect with a trained member of the ACRE Community of Practice to contract for values-driven facilitation services in your food & farming community.
Washington DC
Lempdes, France
Lesotho
Arizona
Danville, Kentucky
Greater Paris Metro, France
Bloomington, Indiana
Courtney Watson
Columbia, South Carolina
The ACRE Community of Practice is open to all who have completed the ACRE Facilitator Training.
For more information on this training, click here.
CONTRACT AN ACRE FACILITATOR
To connect with and contract a trained ACRE Facilitator in your area, please reach out to a member of the ACRE Community of Practice directly.
PROMOTE ACRE IN YOUR COMMUNITY
To explain the ACRE Process for collection action projects in your food/ag community, feel free to use these promotional materials.
* ACRE Online Brochure w/links
ATTEND QUARTERLY GATHERINGS
The ACRE Community of Practice meets quarterly to share best practices using ACRE, increase collaborative opportunities, and conduct continuing education. We recognize values-based facilitation as a core expertise needed for the development of local and regional food systems.
UPCOMING GATHERINGS:
* TUE, JUNE 17, 2025, 2PM-3PM EST
PARTICIPATE IN FEATURED CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES
NAFSN encourages ACRE Facilitators to further their skills and understanding of the role that facilitation plays in collective action initiatives in food/ag.
This year we feature:
Value Chain Coordination Training, an asynchronous course that takes about 3 hours to complete, offered at no cost, by the Wallace Center's Food Systems Leadership Network.
SUBMIT ACRE CASE STUDIES
Are you an ACRE Facilitator who is actively using ACRE in your food/ag community? Please consider writing an ACRE Case Study for publication on our website to help inform others.
Access our template here.
PRACTICE CONSENT-BASED DECISION MAKING
ACRE utilizes consent-based decision making to level power, focus on solutions, and streamline process when a group of individuals with diverse interests aims to make a series of decisions efficiently to benefit the whole.
This process, with roots in sociocracy, is followed by all NAFSN projects, including ACRE. Read more here.
PROMOTE YOUR ACRE FACILITATION SERVICES
For ACRE-trained facilitators working as consultants, we encourage you to apply to be listed in NAFSN's Community Food Systems Consultants Directory.