Tactical timeline
This activity guides groups to develop their strategy by sequencing tactics.
It’s only a garden
Jason MacLeod & Catherine Byrne 2013 > What happens when a local council-funded community engagement and development process ends up being actively opposed by a local councillor? What is the role for community development practitioners and community devel
Conference organising tips
Detailed checklist by Christine Laurence covering everything you need to consider when organising a conference.
Assessing advocacy
Justin Whelan (2006). Extracts from ‘Work Justice’, a case study of the campaign by Uniting Justice to influence Industrial Relations legislation in Australia.
Education and training for effective environmental advocacy
James Whelan’s (2002) PhD thesis: an action research project to develop an understanding of and model for activist education and training in the Australian environment movement.
Byron Farmers Market
Vanessa John. Insights into the challenges of working as a change agent and advocating for systemic reform.
Strategy board game
This people-sized board game developed by Karen Ridd (Training for Change) is useful to introduce a strategic framework, review issues and practice creative brainstorming.
Environmental Advocacy study guide: Unit 3
Unit 3 of the Environmental Advocacy James taught at Griffith Uni in the mid 2000s
Safeguarding your group
A guide to help activist groups plan to resist aggression and repression. Schwelk Action Wollongong (September 2006).
Lessons in process: the TAWA story
This case study by Christine Herzog and Deborah Radford attempts to understand why a women’s group using alternative processes was not able to survive differences that arose within the group, and to share the learnings.
the Change Agency’s 2008 leaflet
About our team, what we do, working with us…
Building the climate movement online: tCA report
What will it take to create a strongly networked, strategic and powerful Australian climate movement? How can the Internet help build this movement? How can online organising bridge the gaps between grassroots and NGO activists, between environmentalists and other...
Not in our name: An evaluation of the Australian anti war movement 2002-2003
Justin Whelan’s (2007) evaluation of the campaign against Australia’s involvement in the Iraq war examines the efforts of anti-war coalitions and the broader movement. Justin draws on social movement theories including Bill Moyer’s Movement Action...
Debriefing workshop sessions
Some ideas for creative processing and debriefing of activities such as large group discussions and journal writing.
Identifying and Addressing Disruptive Behaviour in Groups
This process will be useful to build the confidence of group facilitators in identifying disruptive behaviour issues in groups and developing strategies to addresses them.
Why do people join movements?
A brainstorming activity to develop participants’ understanding that individuals join movements and groups to fulfil particular needs.
Ten commandments of activism
Some wise words from Saul Alinsky.
Benchmarking evaluation in foundations: Do we know what we are doing?
Much like the discipline of evaluation itself, the evaluation function in philanthropy with staff assigned to evaluation-related responsibilities is a fairly recent phenomenon…