TripodTripod: Training for Creative Social Action
TripodWhere: Edinburgh, Scotland
When: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March, 2027
COPPICE 2027 is a gathering for anyone bringing people together to organise for social change and a fairer, freer future across Britain, Ireland and beyond. The programme will be organised around three themes:
How can we prioritise care in our groups and movements when things just keep getting harder?
We’re organising in increasingly challenging times, with many of us struggling to meet our own needs while also taking care of the people around us.
We’d love to receive proposals for sessions about how we collectively meet the needs of our movements and communities in the way we organise around food, housing, disability and madness, prison support, and care for children and elderly folk. Have you been trying something creative? Is there a conversation that’s needed but not been happening?
The crises we’re facing need to be met at the scale of countries, continents and the world, and also in our neighbourhoods, households and individual relationships. How do we think, act and bring people together across these wildly different scales?
How do we respond when hundreds of people flood into a group in response to the latest catastrophe on the news, or when membership dwindles as attention is pulled elsewhere? How can we tell stories that hold the big picture as well as the small details?
We’re keen to programme sessions that build the practical skills we need to work flexibly and effectively across this wide range of scales. Are you doing anything massive or tiny? What’s been working to bring people in? What hasn’t? Where do you see gaps in vision and action?
All struggles for justice are connected, but we’re not always great at acting like it. How do we build shared narratives and organise effectively across lines of race, class and gender? Where do our interests overlap?
We’d love to see proposals on this theme that engage concretely with the challenges of building diverse coalitions. How do we get on and stay on the same page? What is the role of the facilitator/organiser/educator in these coalitions? What might become possible if we got better at working across difference?
Because we’re inviting proposals for sessions, we don’t know exactly what the programme will look like yet.
We can say that COPPICE 2027 will include:
Scroll down for more information about our kids’ space, access and costs.
Call for session proposals: There is an open call to run sessions during the weekend! Presenter fee: £375. Click here to find out more and submit a proposal. Deadline for session proposals is Sunday 15th January 2027.
Registration deadline for attendees: Friday 26th February, 2027. Click here to book tickets.
COPPICE 2027 is a gathering for anyone working to bring people together to organise for social change and a fairer, freer future across Britain, Ireland and beyond.
We’re worried about the rapid escalation in far-right politics, the increased targeting of minority groups including migrants and queer people, and the divisive rhetoric that’s pulling communities apart just when we need to be uniting to face the threat of climate collapse. If you’re out there doing the work of organising, facilitating and bringing people together to face these challenges, COPPICE is for you.
You might be…
Want to come along? Great! Click here to book tickets.
Want to offer a workshop, discussion, skill-share, panel, problem-solving space, creative session, or something else? Even better. Click here to read the open call for session proposals.
COPPICE 2027 will be held in central Edinburgh, Scotland. The venue is wheelchair accessible and fitted with hearing loop systems. The address will be shared upon registration. Please get in touch if you would like to ask questions about the venue before registering for the event.
COPPICE 2027 will be BSL interpreted across the weekend.
We have a dedicated access budget for this event. This could cover things like support with the cost of accessible travel or large-print/Braille materials. Please let us know about any access needs when you register.
There will be a dedicated children’s programme for children aged 1 to 12, run by early years professionals.
There will be air purifiers operating in the event spaces. Please do not attend if you are unwell.
If you have a question about access for this event, click here to get in touch.
We will provide lunch on both days of COPPICE 2027.
We will farewell the last days of winter with a feast and ceilidh on Saturday night.
Please let us know about dietary requirements when you register.
COPPICE 2027 will include a radical children’s programme for children aged 1–12 years, run by early years professionals.
This children’s space will include a mix of free play with access to resources, e.g., blocks, natural materials, art supplies, and planned activities linked to the themes of COPPICE 2027.
If you have a question about the children’s space for this event, click here to get in touch with the team.
COPPICE 2027 will run on a sliding scale. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. These fees cover participation at any sessions you choose across the weekend, lunches and dinners, the children’s programme, and the ceilidh on Saturday night.
We also have a number of free spaces set aside for folk to make sure everyone is able to attend. If your budget doesn’t stretch to any of the ticket rates above, send us an email and we’ll send you a code for a free ticket. You won’t be asked to explain or prove why you need it.
We’re excited to hear a wide range of ideas in response to the themes of the event. There’s no fixed format — we want to know what you think is needed. We’re hoping that COPPICE will be a space to make connections and learn together, so we’re unlikely to programme anything where you’re talking at the audience for the whole time. We’re going to focus on sessions with clear links to concrete action rather than abstract theory.
Some examples of events might include:
Most sessions at COPPICE will be 90 minutes long. If you have an idea for something longer you can still apply, but it might be harder for us to fit into the programme. We’re also keen to hear proposals for installations, displays, or other things that can stay in the space over the weekend.
If you’re not able to come because of unforeseen circumstances, we ask that you find another person from your group to go. If that’s not possible, we can offer refunds up to two weeks before the event, unless you can’t come because of illness.
Tripod builds the power of social movements tackling the root causes of injustice in Scotland and beyond. As a collective of facilitators and educators, we connect people and develop skills to embody the liberated futures we’re fighting for. We seed active solidarity and strengthen strategic collaboration within and across movements. We offer training, meeting facilitation and conflict mediation to support groups to work in better alignment with their visions and values. We are a worker-led, not-for-profit coop, and have been embedded in movements since 2008.
For more info about our approaches and other work, have a look around our website. Our 2025-2030 strategy focuses on building intersectional movements, and increasing the capacity to better navigate conflict within and across groups.
The promotional design for COPPICE 2027 was done by the wonderful Ruby Scott-Geddes.