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...
Campaigns don't win all at once - they win through taking successful steps. Being able to break down the steps towards winning is a key skill for successful strategizing. This tool gives participants challenge and practice in setting stepping stones along the way and sequencing those to lead to a win.
This approach to strategizing serves bottom-up preferences in building social movements. In Starhawk's terms, it serves power-with rather than power-over, and is inherently democratic.
In this exercise participants are given a chance to consider strategic responses to a specific scenario. Subgroups take roles and challenge each other to come up with smart strategic choices.
A quick exercise to help groups get an example of "What is strategy?" (as opposed to tactics and vision). All that's needed for this tool: a group and a blanket!
"Strategy -- in the face of impending war, financial crises, time crunch, staff changes or despair -- is impossible." Well, I don't think that's true, but certainly lots of us do carry that belief! So here's a one-hour tool that I've used when all of those factors were true! -- maybe it can work for you and your group, too.
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Campaigns don't win all at once - they win through taking successful steps. Being able to break down the steps towards winning is a key skill for successful strategizing. This tool gives participants challenge and practice in setting stepping stones along the way and sequencing those to lead to a win.
![[example of spectrum of allies]](../../../../../images/stories/tools/spectrum.gif){kind=small}
This approach to strategizing serves bottom-up preferences in building social movements. In Starhawk's terms, it serves power-with rather than power-over, and is inherently democratic.
A quick exercise to help groups get an example of "What is strategy?" (as opposed to tactics and vision). All that's needed for this tool: a group and a blanket!
![[Training]](../../../../../images/stories/villagegame.jpg)
