workshop resources
Rising Tide popular education resource pack
Spring 2007 Rising Tide North America spent four months touring the US & Canada. This pdf contains step by step explanations of the popular education games, exercises, topics & many of the resources we used.
Power map template
Map out who’s who to prioritise points of influence or change, and generate ideas for strategy: a great exercise pre- or mid-campaign.
Resources for activists and organizers
Joshua Kahn Russell’s great resource collection of learning resources, including some from the Energy Action Coalition and Rainforest Action Network.
Nonviolence 101: an experience based manual
In the hope that interchange of the growing number of course syllabi and study outlines on nonviolence might be of mutual benefit to activists and academics — encouraging university-level-competence in nonviolence classes and courses…
A Force More Powerful (documentaries)
Award winning documentaries tracing the history of nonviolent conflicts around the world.
water glass exercise
This activity is used by Ouyporn Khuankeaw, a trainer in Thailand who most often works with village development workers, women leaders, monks and nuns, and NGO staff. She finds that popular education/experiential education is easier for participants to get the most...
Training for Change
Training for Change provides activist training for groups standing up for social, economic, and environmental justice through strategic nonviolence.
Organising for Power
Organizing for Power is a project of The Alliance of Community Trainers. ACT offers knowledge, tools, and skills to individuals, organizations and communities to empower sustainable transformation. Great collection of resources, especially on anti-oppression.
Sierra Club Training Academy
Would you like to become a more effective advocate on an issue? Ever wondered about the best way to organize a campaign? Would you like to increase your communication skills? If so there is a great resource available to you: The Sierra Club Grassroots Organizing...
The class of nonviolence
Features ‘The Class of Nonviolence’, a free eight lesson online course drawing on classics in peace and justice literature to teach peacemaking.
Effective facilitation
Resources for developing effective facilitation skills. Topics covered include: tips for facilitators; running effective meetings; forming agendas; testing for agreement; and decision making models.
Tactics analysis
Challenges organisers to consider how much power and energy their tactics create, show and take.
Effective facilitation
Resources for developing effective facilitation skills. Topics covered include: tips for facilitators; running effective meetings; forming agendas; testing for agreement; and decision making models.
Workshop schedule template
A template that can be utilised in planning workshop objectives, rationale, and structure.
People sized strategy board game
Introduces participants to lobbying in an experiential way by drawing on existing experience, incorporating role play, and identifying lobbying as one of many tools and techniques for change.
Growing Pains exercise organisational learning
Role play exploring issues of organisational responses to growth and change.
Tactics to strategy
A powerful tool to help groups shift focus from tactics to strategy.
Mobilising for change workshop resources
The 38-page participants resource pack developed for our October 2008 MfC workhops in Melbourne and Hobart.