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Beginner’s guide to making video with your smartphone

Learn practical tips from Digital Storytellers on how to make a video with your smartphone including information about what you need, shooting tips and editing.

Building Digital Power: A playbook for changemakers

Digital strategy insights and tips for not for profits focused on people and relationships and based on a decade of trial and error and research.

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Australian Progress Conferences: Videos, Presentations and Articles

Australian Progress holds Australia’s largest social change conference every two years. Here are links to presentations and articles from conferences so far.

Creating your Brand Identity

Have you been trying to create and/or build upon your brand identity for a campaign or your organisation? Great tips and a checklist from Principle Co.

The future can be awesome but not without activism

Laura O’Connell Rapira, Director of ActionStation, makes the case that the future can be better than we think but only if we’re willing to take action.

Coping with climate change distress

This booklet, drawing on evidence based insights from psychology, offers strategies to cope with the stress of climate change. Includes behavioural, relational, cognitive and emotional coping strategies.

The Climate Change Empowerment Handbook

Engage more effectively with the challenge of climate change with insights from psychology and The Australian Psychological Society.

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Momentum Webinars on movements, mass decentralised organising and mobilisation

The Momentum Community has shared webinars on movements, mass decentralised organising, mobilisation, non-violent movements and case studies including the Sunrise movement and Hong Kong democracy movement.

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Community Mapping

What is community mapping? Learn from organisers that have used the community mapping model to empower their own communities.

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Resources for Disaster Relief and Recovery

A collection of resources to support community responses to the Australian bushfires and other disasters. Includes resilience and recovery, navigating trauma, conversation guides and taking action.

How to make your community space into a hub for local resilience and mutual aid

This guide introduces the vision and model of a resilience hub, a place where neighbours can deepen a sense of belonging, learn new skills together, provide for basic needs, prepare for disasters, and build a more inclusive and joyful community.

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Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Workshop Facilitation Guide

Has your community experienced a disaster? Do you need to have difficult conversations and build individual and community resilience? This guide has all you need to hold a workshop.

Navigating Trauma in Disaster Relief

This guide is for anyone who is experiencing trauma and/or helping people with their trauma. It is by the Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, a grassroots disaster relief network in the US based on the principles of solidarity, mutual aid, and autonomous direct action.