Stepping stones
An activity to elicit knowledge about strategy, and provide a group challenge and strengthening of team work.
Tactics analysis handout
This resource is used in the Tactics Analysis activity.
Networking ideas
Introduction to the basics of networking. Why network, with whom and how. Also covers list building, virtual networking and maintaining effective networks.
Revolution or inch by inch? Campaign approaches on climate change by environmental groups
Nina Lansbury Hall and Ros Taplin (2006). The question of whether NGOs are undertaking an ‘incremental’ or ‘revolutionary’ approach, or any other dichotomy is too simple: none of the NGOs appear to intentionally favour one type of strategy. Presented at the 9th annual...
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.
Friends of Earth Climate Justice Campaign: for the greater good
Nancy Entwhistle. A study of the reframing of the climate change campaign and the notion of distributive justice.
Scenario writing
Encourages participants to articulate positive visions to guide their organisations’ strategies.
Environmental Advocacy study guide: Unit 2
Unit 2 of the Environmental Advocacy James taught at Griffith Uni in the mid 2000s
Fun, fast and fit: teenagers who cycle to school
Arthur Orsini and Catherine O’Brien’s (2006) interviews with teenagers reveal their strategies to influence their peers.
tCA Climate Action Research Proposal (2007)
Our proposal for the 2007-2009 action research project to learn more about effective community organising for climate action
Strategies to overcome barriers to recruitment and mobilisation
Ideas generated by participants in the April 2008 Mobilising for Change workshop in Auckland, Aotearoa.
Directors’ duties to the company and minority shareholder environmental activism
Aidan Ricketts, Shelley Bielefeld, Sue Higginson and Jim Jackson investigate the use of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and the common law that applies to companies as mechanisms to discourage environmentally destructive activities of corporations.Publish
Co facilitation Inventory
A guide to maximising the learning experience of working together, including learning theory, personal motivation, expectations, and intervention style.
How to build safety in a group
If the facilitator and the group do a good job of building safety, then the participants will frequently go out of their comfort zone in order to stretch and grow. This document outlines techniques for developing security within a group.
Closed eye exercise: recruitment skills and stories
An exercise to develop recruitment skills.
Tactical timeline
This activity guides groups to develop their strategy by sequencing tactics.