workshop resources
Rating scale: How burnout prone is your organisation?
A questionnaire for group members to spark reflection, dialogue and action
Scenario writing
Encourages participants to articulate positive visions to guide their organisations’ strategies.
Vision, hope for change and sustainable activism
Collated by Holly Hammond, a collection of worksheets for some personal reflection on your activism, strategies for greater sustainability and other food for thought.
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Strategies for enhancing effective feedback whilst reinforcing acceptance, confidence, and contributions from participants.
Activist education dimensions exercise
This exercise helps people working in activist education categorise their work and the world of activist education, and to reflect on their choices and priorities.
SMART objective writing
An exercise to turn your group’s desired changes into objectives that are Specific and Strategic, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound.
Rating Scale: How well does your group empower its members?
A questionnaire for group members to complete and discuss.
Cutting the issue
It’s next to impossible to make a difference on a huge problem. How you ‘cut’ the problem into issues will influence your prospects of success, and the consequent impact. What parts of the problem (and the solution) are amenable to your...
Political opportunity structure: Analysis toward strategy
Randy Stoecker’s political opportunity structure helps community organisers to think through strategy on a spectrum of confrontation to consensus.
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.
SWOT analysis
An activity to examine internal and external factors that hinder or facilitate a group’s advocacy strategy. This is a useful activity to help you refine goals, objectives, and activities.
Identifying and Addressing Disruptive Behaviour in Groups
This process will be useful to build the confidence of group facilitators in identifying disruptive behaviour issues in groups and developing strategies to addresses them.
Elements of strategy
A set of considerations to critically appraise strategic decisions.
Mobilising for change workshop resources
The 38-page participants resource pack developed for our October 2008 MfC workhops in Melbourne and Hobart.
Vision gallery
A tool for envisioning specific features of the kind of society participants would like to create, and facilitating development of a common vision and shared values.
Consensus decision making
An overview of requirements and guidelines for effective consensus decision-making, as well as some variations and difficulties that may be encountered.
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...