Steps to climate justice [tCA process guide]
Interactive exercise for climate change activists and action groups, incorporating critical path analysis and facilitating political analysis.
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Strategies for enhancing effective feedback whilst reinforcing acceptance, confidence, and contributions from participants.
Mainstream and Margin: Two Roles In Conflict
An overview of the two roles that often appear in group conflicts – mainstream and margins.
Why do people join a movement?
An informative resource from CANVAS outlining various motivations for joining a movement.
SMART objective writing
An exercise to turn your group’s desired changes into objectives that are Specific and Strategic, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound.
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Alternative Dispute Resolution Processes
Presentation by Claudia Baldwin designed to: introduce ADR processes; outline the characteristics of mediation; identify skills useful for preventing and resolving conflicts; and to identify the benefits of mediation for environmental dispute and policy r
Community based, environmental sustainability initiatives
John Hepburn’s (2005) Churchill Fellowship Report examines community based, environmental sustainability initiatives in North America and Europe.
Adult Education and Community Change
James Whelan (1994). A critical assessment of Friere, Knowles and community development.
Gully Insights
Sam La Rocca. Lessons for local planning and NIMBY campaigning case study of a two-year community-based campaign to protect green space from development.
Tactics analysis
Challenges organisers to consider how much power and energy their tactics create, show and take.
Glossary of terms
action learning | activist research | capacity building | community organising | effective advocacy | grass roots activism | popular education | social action | social change | Action learning An approach to research or organisational learning based on cycles of...
Open Space Technology Process Guide
A helpful process guide and case study for Open Space Technology facilitators.
Media liaison
Workshop notes developed by Graham Jury, an organiser with the Save Happy Valley Coalition in their nonviolent campaign to prevent coal mining on the west coast of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s south island.
Exploring Social and Sacred Ecology
For further information on the September workshop