Empowering Leaderful Organizing: Competencies & Tools
Empower your groups and movements with an A – Z list of training tools for organizing and activist work by Leaderful Organizing.
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Leaderful Organizing
This collection of resources about leaderful organizing comes from a partnership of organisations in Europe.
They hope to challenge and inspire activists and organizers to rethink the leadership practices in their movements and organisations and consider developing the competencies to build leaderful movements.
Leaderful organising sits within a broad theory of change that sees the building of collective power and agency as a key driver of social transformation towards greater social justice and ecological integrity. Organising is the activity of building that collective power and agency.
Leaderful Organizing
The Leaderful Organizing Toolkit is a comprehensive resource that offers practical guidance, tools, and examples for fostering leadership and collective action within organizations and movements.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Diversity Welcome
This activity makes visible the margins of the group and aims to support group members to feel seen and welcomed.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Spectogram – People Don’t Get Involved Because…
A tool to use in trainings on effective organising. This spectogram sets up the conversation on how to meet people where they are and move them into action.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Giving and Receiving Feedback
Giving and Receiving feedback is a group exercise which supports authentic group relationships for long term collaboration.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Organizational Structure Matrix
Organizational Structure Matrix is a conversational tool to explore the benefits and disadvantages of different organizing structures.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Race Class Narrative Checklist
Race Class Narrative Checklist is a tool for increasing inclusion and solidarity in movements, by ensuring we push back against racism and classism.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Republic of Kunbábony
The Republic of Kunbábony is a group roleplay exercise which explores strategic ways to get involved in the political process.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Resilience Trees
Resilience Trees are a visual exercise to deepen our understanding of the practices that increase our resilience and strengthen our movements.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Flipping the Script
Flipping the Script is a tool for building confidence in one on one conversations in community organizing.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Chapati Power Diagrams
Chapati Power Diagrams are a leaderful organising tool which helps a group analyse power in a specific situation.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Following the Breath
Meditative tool to develop awareness in order to increase our capacity to show up, work together and bring about change in the world.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Good Meetings
This leaderful organising tool is a roleplay exercise which teaches skills for facilitating and participating in good meetings.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Mística
The mística is a feminist ritual exercise that is both political and spiritual, focused on deep listening and trust.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Blended Decision Making
Blended Decision making allows for a collaborative, nuanced and power-informed approach to decision making in groups which can strengthen the capacity for leaderful organizing.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Body Scanning and Cultivating Somatic Awareness
Body Scanning is a wellbeing tool which can strengthen the capacity for holistic and regenerative leaderful organizing.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Columbian Hypnosis
Columbian Hypnosis is a theatrical group exercise which explores our tendencies and assumptions around power and leadership.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Comfort, Learning and Panic Zones
Comfort, Learning and Panic Zones is a leaderful organizing tool that can support us to create a transformative group culture.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Conflict Icebergs
Conflict Icebergs is a leaderful organising tool allowing us to understand conflicts and find empowering perspectives within them.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: DARCI Grid to Clarify Roles and Responsibilities
The DARCI grid (template) is a leaderful organising tool which allows for clarity in the distribution of roles and responsibilities.