workshop resources
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
Sample Workshop Agenda: Team Building
A sample agenda for a whole day team-building workshop.
Tactical timeline
This activity guides groups to develop their strategy by sequencing tactics.
Killer phrases: Keeping a pro-stagnation attitude
A useful reminder to build a healthy sense of our agency and potential.
Media liaison
Workshop notes developed by Graham Jury, an organiser with the Save Happy Valley Coalition in their nonviolent campaign to prevent coal mining on the west coast of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s south island.
Active listening role play and resources
Some of our favourite resources on active listening and a role play in which facilitators demonstrate good and bad listening techniques, and participants are able to experience and discuss the elements of successful communication.
Stages In A Group’s Development
A workshop introducing participants to Bruce Tuckman’s ‘stages in group development’, facilitating participants’ reflection on their experiences of group development, and identifying and addressing challenges.
Ten commandments of activism
Some wise words from Saul Alinsky.
Maximise-minimise
A great Training for Change exercise to build a workshop ‘container’ in which participants exercise responsibility for their own learning.
What is your political vision?
An exercise to help your group define the characteristics of political life in the ideal future as expressed in roles, relationships, and values in decision making.
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.
Rating scale: How burnout prone is your organisation?
A questionnaire for group members to spark reflection, dialogue and action
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.
Power mapping
An exercise to map who’s who to prioritise points of influence or change, and generate ideas for strategy: a great exercise to focus your campaign efforts.
‘Naming political assumptions’ exercise
An exercise to help group members identify the political assumptions that shape their opinions and analysis.
Cofacilitation resources
Outlines the major advantages, some potential disadvantages, and suggestions for avoiding the dangers in co-facilitation. So detailed – a real gem.