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Join us for a workshop to increase your ability to think strategically, understand what are the important ingredients to strategize, and gain new tools to use in your groups to help develop strategy. This workshop is designed to help activists integrate strategy into our groups, our thinking, our work. Goals for this workshop: - understand what helps groups develop smarter strategies to accomplish their goals;
- help you identify your strengths at strategizing;
- build skills to increase your capacity for smarter organizing; and
- have new tools to help build these skills which you can use in your groups.
This workshop is an outcome of TFC's year long Strategy Project. In the Strategy Project, Training for Change researched how do people best learn strategy, uncovered tools for activists in building strategy, and developed new tools and training techniques.
WHAT IS THE APPROACH OF THIS WORKSHOP?
In this workshop over a dozen different exercises are presented along with theory on social change. The tools cover different three aspects of strategizing. The first aspect includes ingredients in social change campaigns:
- understanding the elements of building a strategy
- visioning and identifying specific objectives
- identifying allies to reach out
- finding a framing or message to appeal to allies
The second aspect includes people's personal strengths in strategizing. This workshop isn't about becoming some "big-brained strategy guru" bsaed on some glamorous image of strategizing. All of us can do strategizing, sometimes we just need some encouragement and guidance. Since this workshop's focus is empowerment -- helping you to do what you do better and helping you to get better at it, the workshop includes:
- looking at your own personal strengths in strategizing, and how to minimize one's weaknesses
- group attitudes and how to deal with feelings of failure or resistance to strategizing
- your attitude about your group and how to see its core strength
- how to maximize one's learning curve on strategizing
Finally, the third aspect is offering specific exercises that one can bring back to help your group get better at strategizing. Each of the above aspects includes tools -- most which take under 30 minutes -- that can be led in group meetings, conferences or workshops to help people think more strategically.
A Note: This is not the place to find "the" single answer to strategy. There are no magic bullets. And if you're interested in one ideology for how change happens, this is not the place. But if you're interested in exploring new tools and concepts in getting better at strategizing, this workshop is right for you!
WHAT ARE THE TIMES FOR THE WORKSHOP? The workshop begins with 9:00a.m. registration on Saturday and lasts until noon on Sunday. (It generally ends by dinner time on Saturday, normally by 7pm.) WHO ARE THE FACILITATORS? Daniel Hunter, TFC's main researcher for the Strategy Project. He has facilitated nonviolent and strategy workshops for organizations and movements across the United States and in India, Burma/Myanmar, Canada, Indonesia and Sierra Leone and Australia. He is currently writing a handbook for Training for Change on how activists groups can develop strategy. He co-facilitates this workshop (see specific workshop for more). WHAT IS THE FEE? Sliding scale: $85-$250, based on ability to pay. Your fee includes breakfast for Saturday and Sunday, lunch on Saturday, and simple lodging in neighborhood homes for those who request it. | If your income is... | You pay... |
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| | under $15,000 | $85 | | $15,001-$25,000 | $105 | | $25,001-$35,000 | $135 | | $35,001-$45,000 | $170 | | $45,001-$55,000 | $200 | | over $55,000 | $250 | QUESTIONS? If you have questions about the fee or the workshop, feel free to contact us! |
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