workshop resources
What do I say? A guide to language about disability
Excellent guide produced by People with Disability Australia. “Ableist language is language that is offensive to people with disability. It can also refer to language that is derogatory, abusive or negative about disability. Ableism is the systemic exclusion and...
19 must-see historic Australian peaceful protest documentaries
There’s never been a better time to brush up on our rich history of peaceful protest movements. Everyday people have protected land rights, our natural world and climate, workers rights, LGBTIQ+ rights and much more. While we bunker down during the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Locked down? Try organizing
“We’re caring for our communities as best we can – but many of us also find ourselves stuck indoors, looking for new ways to build resilience so we can come out of this crisis into a more just and sustainable world. For some, organizing is a big part of getting...
SessionLab: Workshop planning made simple
Resources for collaborative workshop design including a great collection of icebreakers and energisers, diagnosis tools and process ideas.
Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaigning Manual
This 180+ page volume offers progressive organizers 14 vitally important how-to guides containing the strategic and tactical wisdom of over 100 progressive campaigners. These guides focus on in-demand topics (see below) and include strategies and tactics that are...
Our Wise Democracy Pattern Language
This is exciting. Tom Atlee and the Co-Intelligence Institute team have developed a terrific collection of 96 patterns they describe as… “features or design principles that we believe would show up repeatedly in a democracy characterized by collective...
Five Acclaimed Civil Resistance Films Now Available in Full, for Free
The International Centre on Nonviolent Conflict have now posted five critically acclaimed documentary films on civil resistance on their website, in English as well as translated into over 20 languages. Originally available only on DVD or videocassette, and shown in...
The unicorn activity: Political lobbying role play
This role play activity, developed by the Centre for Australian Progress, is an interactive workshop to help people experience a political lobbying meeting in a light-hearted way. The role play involves people being from either the Minister for Magical Creatures, or...
Critical path analysis template
What interim outcomes or smaller changes do you expect you’ll need to achieve along the road to achieving your campaign objective? A critical path can help keep your team focused. Here’s an MS Word template to fast-track the process of creating your...
Accessibility guidelines for workshop facilitators
People with obvious and not-so-obvious disabilities need accommodation in order to participate fully. As a presenter, you may or may not be aware of a participant’s need for accommodations. In addition to accommodating the accessibility needs of participants who...
Theory of Change Online
Theory of Change Online (TOCO) is the only web-based software (no download required) that you can use to design and edit and store your Theory of Change, learn the concepts of theory of change, and capture your outcomes, indicators, rationales and assumptions in an...
Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (Theories of Change)
People act on the basis of their understanding of how the world works – their ‘theories of action’. We do X because we believe, based on past experience or what we’ve read, that Y will happen. This applies to projects and programs as well. So it follows that if...
Developing a theory of change
A guide to developing a theory of change as a framework for inclusive dialogue, learning and accountability for social impact. The process of developing a theory of change is an exciting and often liberating process of interaction and discovery that helps...
The art of advocacy | The Democracy Center
At the Democracy Center, for nearly 25 years we have worked to support people all across the world with one area of activism especially – advocacy. That is a word with many different meanings. Most of all it means to have a specific objective in mind – passing a law...
People Power training guides: Campaign Strategy and Community Organising
The People Power manual has been written primarily for educators, trainers and facilitators who are looking for processes to use in their activist education work. The first two volumes focus on Campaign Strategy and Community Organising, with dozens of participatory...
Momentum is a training institute and movement incubator
Momentum is committed to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice. We give grassroots organizers the tools to build massive, decentralized social movements that aim to shift the terrain under policymakers’ feet. We live in a time of...
Nonviolence trainers’ resource manual
Training for nonviolence can be an important first step in helping people to confront fear and support each other when facing police, community and institutional opposition to their activism. The Trainers’ Resource Manual is a collection of training tools that...
‘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...