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.
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.
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.
Elements of strategy
A set of considerations to critically appraise strategic decisions.
Rising Tide resource pack
Spring 2007 Rising Tide North America spent four months touring the US & Canada. This resource pack contains step by step explanations of the popular education games, exercises, topics and many of the resources we used.
Lobbying workshop outline and resources
We’ve created a process guide to help facilitators design and lead a 1-2 hour participatory workshop on lobbying. The workshop draws on resources developed by Lois Levy.
Photolanguage
An exercise to facilitate self-awareness, deepen engagement and relationships, stimulate creativity in personal expression, and connections between intellectual reflection and personal experience.
Tactics analysis handout
This resource is used in the Tactics Analysis activity.
Forcefield analysis / Macro strategy exercise
This activity examines various forces affecting a movement including external groups, internal division, psychological powers and blocks. It’s a terrific way for your group or network to share perspectives and information that will help define what’s...
TFC Facing Attack Challenge
Full details on the activity.
Powerful action groups: Resources for activist educators and facilitators
18 pages of our favourite resources on facilitation and activist education, collated for convenors of action groups