sociogram: an exercise in which participants arrange their bodies to show something about themselves or to stimulate a new awareness. For example, participants are asked to range themselves along a line that shows how long they've been active with a particular cause. See also "spectrum." Read more...
Find new tools that you can use to help your group think about strategy! A hope based workshop to learn how groups develop strategy, identify your own strengths and assist you to build strategy into your organizing work.
Available for your group Many activists use nonviolent tactics but don't achieve the full value of the action because it's not connected to a strategy, or to a richer understanding of how nonviolent action works. What we can miss is a treasure trove of theory and practice developed by oppressed people all over the world. Not tapping it is like letting power slip through our fingers! Spend a revitalizing weekend with George Lakey harvesting lessons from nonviolent movements around the world.
Available for your group Around the U.S. and the world, activist groups are seeing a resurgence of direct action. Training for Change provides state-of-the-art direct action trainings -- in nonviolence, campaign strategy and other basic skills. We also train other folks to do the same. Contact us for more info about this training of trainer workshop.
BEFORE YOU ENLIST AND AFTER YOU SAY NO: AFSC's counter-recruitment training manual
By Daniel Hunter and Hannah Strange
Get this 239-page training manual with over eighty handouts, articles, and tools on organizing, strategy, and how to do counter-recruitment. Most of the tools in the workshop can be easily adapted for other movements -- many of which are brand new tools.
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WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT TFC
"Many said that this was the most effective training of this type they had ever attended. I felt you did an exceptional job of combining group building, skill enhancement, and theory."
Church of the Brethren, team building for work in the Sudan
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Training for Change
3241 Columbus Avenue, South
Minneapolis, MN 55407
USA
peacelearn@igc.orgph:612-827-7323