Need to dive into class but are looking for a tool that's short? Here's our take on a classic "Star Power" to give participants a quick experience of rank and privilege, especially economic class.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.