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 We do more than just training -- we write, too! Training for Change regularly writes articles about hot issues in training and activism around the world -- you'll find our training and field reports from around the world, and the latest news happening at Training for Change. And don't forget to check out our books and manuals, including new manuals written by TFC.
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 SECOND IN A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS OF TRAINING ASSOCIATES: Nico Amador interviews Erika Thorne, progressive activist, writer, facilitator and cultural worker since 1974. Learn more about Erika and her stories of using Training for Change, and more... |
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When a civil disobedience campaign in Philadelphia needed a fresh way to prepare its members, a new tactic was born: the practice site occupation. At that event, training took on a whole new meaning and became an action unto itself. |
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 FIRST IN A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS OF TRAINING ASSOCIATES: Nico Amador interviews Matt Guynn, an organizer and nonviolence trainer with over ten years of training experience. Learn more about Matt, his stories of using Training for Change, and more... |
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The Drama of the Ontario Super-T
Eleventh Super-T, May 25-June 10, 2006
Summary notes from George Lakey, Training for Change The Super-T came to a climax on the last evening before the final day of the international learning event for social action trainers held by Training for Change. |
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 Training for Change goes around the world to coach local trainers and help add to their strategy toolbox. And when faced with new theory but no experiential way to teach it, how did training associate Daniel Hunter respond? Creativity and designing a new tool! |
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George Lakey reports on making lemonade out of lemons.
Also, he's hassled only minimally by Canadian immigration. |
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 A Training for Change & Ruckus Society collaboration: a manual for the counter-recruitment movement. This 239-page training manual is chocked full of tools, handouts and articles on what is the poverty draft, how a recruiter gets your number, organizing skills, how to build a campaign, media & messaging, and more. This manual includes group dynamics exericses, strategy tools, and many more that can be useful to other movements, too. |
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 Meet the bold new generation of activists. Aged ten to thirty-one, these diverse authors are helping remake the world. They are atheist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, pagan; transgender, queer, heterosexual, bisexual -- Americans from every type of background and ethnicity, united in their dedication to progressive goals. They inherit the legacy of the sixties, but have the imagination and courage to embark in new directions. |
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 Hundreds of training activities in detail, over 60 handouts with the content of how to defend human rights against violence, an integrated 23-day curriculum, many tips for trainers, and mini-essays on pedagogical theory -- all of this is included in the 634-page manual available from Training for Change (TfC). |
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Training for Change News Archive |
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Training Associate Matt Guynn (Richmond, IN) and Betsy Raasch-Gilman (St. Paul, MN) have been hired by the Citizens Action Coalition to investigate needs and recommend methods for training citizen leaders in the state of Indiana. Read the beginnings of this exciting curriculum/research project. |
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TFC on National Public Radio
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Just before Martin Luther King, Jr., Day in January 2007, TFC was contacted by the public radio show "Weekend America," looking for contemporary nonviolent activists to be interviewed about MLK's legacy for today. The interview was broadcast as part of their annual MLK show. The brief interview includes clips from Dr. King's speeches, with comments from TFC trainers Nico Amador, Matt Guynn, Daniel Hunter, and George Lakey. |
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Interested in the future of Training for Change's work? We are developing thoughts, hopes, dreams and concrete plans for Direct Education and the work of TfC beyond 2006. All social change trainers, activists and progressives are welcome into this dialogue. Our collected energy and insights are the main ingredient. |
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![[Before You Enlist And After You Say No]](../../../../images/stories/books/beforeyouenlist.jpg)
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.Order On-Line |
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