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Team-building
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Nonviolent Action for Social Change
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Third-party Nonviolent Intervention
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Making Better Trainings
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Meeting and Dialogue Facilitation
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Where your name comes from
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| | The simplest tool for cultural difference you'll ever lead!
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Fishbowl, Panel and Speak-Outs: Three Listening Exercises
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| | Three related tools to help any group interact with its own margin. A good workshop provides opportunities for mainstream people to get new information about margins, in a way that goes below the surface and involves the emotional learning channel. The expectation is that, by highlighting the experience of a few margins in a dramatic way, participants will learn that they need to become pro-active in order to be fair with people on the margins. Similarly, the experience of powerfully speaking often increases the margins' self-confidence and clarity.
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Diversity Welcome
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| | This opening tool has become a favorite at TFC. It's a great tool to warm-up a group and invite the diversity of the group to show up. (It's there anyways, why not name it?) We've found it works cross-culturally and helps to set a tone of invitiation and openness in a group.
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Tape on the Forehead
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| | A activity to help groups look at mainstream/margin dynamics. This simple tool can uncover a deeper level of understanding of how mainstream/margin operates in that group.
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Step With Me
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| | A physical exercise to help participants stand up for themselves -- literally. It's a great way to help margins stand up for themselves and mainstreams become more conscious and less stuck in shame.
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Culture Sharing: 3 strengths and 1 concern
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| | In cross-cultural groups (like multinational or multigeographical groups) we find it useful to bring that cultural diversity into the room as a resource. This tool can be an early tool to help acknowledge that cultural diversity.
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Walking Across the Room
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| | A diversity tool also known as Crossing the Line, this one is best used with a buddy system and placed in a workshop after considerable safety is built. It's sometimes the most powerful experience participants have in a workshop, about the social construction of oppression.
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Power Shuffle
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| | A diversity exercise also called Step Forward/Step Back, this tool can go fairly deep considering it doesn't take much time. When placed well in a workshop, this can be a powerful exercise to help participants understand their rank and privilege or lack of it.
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Mainstream/Margin
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| | We invented this in response to trainers asking us: what do you do with a group that is genuinely clueless about its racism (sexism/homophobia/ etc.)? We found it works with low-consciousness groups and has tremendous value for experienced activist groups, too.
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Diversity Interviews
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| | How to assist a marginalized individual or subgroup in your workshop to become integrated into the group, and also how to assist the mainstream in your workshop to learn more deeply about difference. This one is best done if you first of all experience it as a participant in a TfC workshop or with another qualified trainer.
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