books
Foundations of a healthy group culture
Creative, empowering and diverse processes can be used to work with a group to establish their personal and group needs, values, principles and ethics then come to shared understandings and agreements. The analogy of the seed is part of a meta process Robin is...
Resistance guide: How to sustain the movement to win (Book)
Do you want to be part of a successful effort to defeat the Trump agenda? Do you want to understand how great social movements of the past can guide the current fight? Do you want to know how to sustain the movement even in times of burnout, disillusionment, or...
First Chapter: How Organizations Develop Activists by Hahrie Han
What are the best methods for recruiting, maintaining, and empowering involved members? Using observational and experimental data, Hahrie Han isolates the strategies in which effective associations invest time and effort in order to increase levels of involvement and...
Books to support movement building
The (US) National Organizers Alliance website lists titles on organizing transit riders, lessons from Appalachia, anti-racism, family action, organizer characteristics, and stories of struggle.
Book review: ‘What Makes People Tick?’
If you want to communicate effectively with people – especially if you want to persuade them to act – you need to start from where they are, not from where you are. The failure to do this lies at the root of many communications damp squibs, disasters and...
‘Gandhi and beyond’ book review
Jason MacLeod’s review of David Cortright’s (2006) ‘Gandhi and Beyond’: Cortright offers a useful book for students and educators of nonviolent action. He provides a sensitive, sympathetic and critical overview of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr....