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Cutting the issue: Why campaign on part of a problem?

Cutting the issue: Why campaign on part of a problem?

The Change Agency team have been teaching campaigners to 'cut the issue' for 15 years. This strategising process challenges campaigners to differentiate between problems and issues. An issue is part of the problem, and also part of the solution. Our People Power...

Apply now for SMT’s Digital Campaigning Certificate

Apply now for SMT’s Digital Campaigning Certificate

Discounted registration is now available for the 9-month Digital Campaigning Certificate with Social Movement Technologies starting September 2020. The SMT team are recruiting an Australia-Pacific cohort and have generously offered registrations at one-third the...

tCA’s new training guides (drum roll please …)

tCA’s new training guides (drum roll please …)

We're super proud to announce the 2020 edition of the Campaign Strategy training guide, now available as a download and in beautiful hard copy. The Change Agency team have been designing, collecting and adapting activist education curriculum for more than 15 years....

Theories of change

Theories of change

A theory of change can help guide campaigners, their teams and communities. A well-crafted theory of change helps align the available energy, keeping your team focused and clear headed about the change you plan to make and how. In our workshops, we often use a basic...

Covid-19 update

Covid-19 update

All face-to-face Change Agency workshops, including the launch of our new training guide, have been cancelled. During this time of physical isolation, we remain available to support social change organisations remotely. Contact us if you or your organisation seek...

Moved to Action: Joel Dignam’s review of Hahrie Han’s text

Moved to Action: Joel Dignam’s review of Hahrie Han’s text

Hahrie Han’s Moved to Action (published in 2009) tackles the question of what motivates political participation by people who face significant barriers to participation. While some people have many resources that facilitate political participation (education, wealth,...

Can the Centre Hold? (book review)

Can the Centre Hold? (book review)

Joel Dignam reviews Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom’s ‘The Starfish and the Spider’. Decentralisation is so hot right now. People are talking about swarms, distributed leadership, horizontal learning. And it's not the only thing that's so hot right now. The new pro-coal...

Relational organising and transactional mobilising

Relational organising and transactional mobilising

How can we maximise the relational potential of tactics that are primarily designed to turn people out for our rallies and other public events? How can we harness the power of shared interests and values when we're focused on organising events to show numbers? For the...