communication
Open sentences
Open Sentences is a structure for spontaneous expression. It helps people listen with rare receptivity as well as speak their thoughts and feelings frankly. People sit in pairs, face to face and close enough to attend to each other fully. They refrain from speaking...
Campaign Accelerator trainings > MobLab
Details of upcoming trainings, courses, webinars and convenings. The Accelerator brings together the very best of design thinking (centring the people you aim to serve or engage), systems thinking (tackling root causes to shift systems), and people-powered (inspiring...
‘Mining the gold of conflict’ (videos)
Myrna Lewis’ TEDx talk on the capacity for Deep Democracy methods to: tap into the emotional undercurrents and wisdom of a group recognise and overcome resistance to decision making hear all the voices in a group draw out diverse opinions confidently step into...
Collective Intelligence Collaboratory | CICO
Making sense of the huge array of organizations, software and concepts pushing to “change the world” is nearly impossible, as long as we remain unable to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. We are putting together a highly improbable mix of people...
Becoming Unstuck With Relational Activism
Here are three relational activist values that can be practiced in everyday relationships and workplaces, along with examples of how they can lead to social action >
Nine common listening mistakes that sabotage your collaboration
Sarah Norton (Groupwork Centre) writes: Serious about leading or working collaboratively? Everyone you work with needs to know that their input is valid and valuable. Regardless of our situation in life, most of us want to feel heard. In fact, it requires conscious...
Hearable messages [Groupwork Centre]
Many people find it challenging to provide constructive criticism, peer review or supervisor input in a way that is clearly heard. Although we’re meant to hear criticism of our work without taking it personally, this seems to be a myth! Most of us have an emotional...
C4C Fundraising and communication fellowship | Jan-May 2019, Melbourne
Climate for Change are looking for a new group of up to 25 committed volunteers to join in 2019. You will learn and work with a small, hard-working team to design and implement an ambitious real-life fundraising project in a fun and supportive environment. This is a...
Imagining Change: How to Use Story-Based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World [Book]
Re:Imagining Change provides resources, theory, hands-on tools, and illuminating case studies for the next generation of innovative change-makers. This unique book explores how culture, media, memes, and narrative intertwine with social change strategies, and offers...
Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-Based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World
Re:Imagining Change provides resources, theory, hands-on tools, and illuminating case studies for the next generation of innovative change-makers. This unique book explores how culture, media, memes, and narrative intertwine with social change strategies, and offers...
A guide to email writing for action
Ben Brandzel’s excellent guide ‘From moment to movement and beyond’ (text and slides): moment, crisitunity, ‘ask’, reader focused theory of change…
‘Questions only’ process guide
Chris Jensen developed this process guide to prepare facilitators to lead discussions. The process entails designing and asking questions to help participants learn key concepts. Facilitators are encouraged to listen more than tell, and to be specific in their...
Raw > effective data visualisation
The missing link between spreadsheets and vector graphics. Create beautiful graphics.
Common Cause Australia
Common Cause Australia is a growing network of people working to engage cultural values to create a more equitable, sustainable and democratic society. You can be part of it too.
Why ‘active listening’ will make you more productive, and how to do it
There are two types of listening: passive and active. With passive listening, you don’t chew on someone’s words too much; you simply react to what they say and try to get your own points across. Active listening is different, and in my opinion a lot more productive....
2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report
The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report is unprecedented and provides valuable insight into the global NGO sector and its use of online technology.
Big Data Visualization: Review of the 20 Best Tools
How do I get a clean and engaging visualization for all my data? Will it be time consuming? Am I going to spend months preparing everything? Here’s the deal: There are tools that help you visualize all your data in minutes. They are already out there. All you need to...