workshop resources
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
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.