Introduction
This is a curated a guide for trainers from the Leading Change Network about organising, narrative, campaign and movement building. The Leading Change Network develops leadership and supports organisers around the world through a community of practice, ongoing learning and coaching. Rooted in community organising, social movement, and civic traditions, the Leading Change Network grew out of the work of Marshall Ganz, his collaborators, their students, and others.
The Leading Change Network Resource Center has many resources on Organizing, Narrative, and Campaign and Movement Building. This Guide for trainers includes a selection of resources from the Resource Center. Note: Some resources are available to Leading Change Network members only. Here’s how to become a member.
Training Resources
Organizing
General
- Slides – Orientation to Organizing, Leading Change Network
- Slides – Collection of Training Slides by Leading Change Network
- Guide – The Facilitator’s Resource Guide: Facilitating an Organizing Training, Leading Change Network
- Videos – Marshall Ganz 2014 Organizing Couse: People, Power & Change graduate course at Harvard University
- Graphic – Introduction to Organizing as taught by Marshall Ganz, Drawn to Lead – Rosi Greenberg
- Statement – Organizing sentence, Organizers Handbook, pg. 40
- Community Organizing Course by Ahel, Jordan (in Arabic) (Includes Videos and Guides)
- Book chapter – Learning to Lead: A Pedagogy of Practice, Marshall Ganz and Emily S. Lin [Book chapter in Handbook for teaching leadership: Knowing, doing, and being]
Workshop Participant Guides
- Building Power: Developing Leadership, Organizing People, and Mobilizing Collective Action To Win Campaigns: Digital Manual
- Organizing: People, Power and Change (Guide)
- Leadership, Organizing and Action: SEED Organizing Workshop Participant Guide
- Leadership, Organizing and Action: Organizing Workshop Participant Guide, LCN
- Public Narrative Workshop: Participant Guide [Nieman Fellows Public Narrative Workshop 2017]
- FICPFM Organizer Training Fellowship: Winning Campaigns to Transform the Criminal Justice System During Covid19 and Beyond: Digital Manual
Relationships
- Slides – Recovery Advocacy Project Organizing Institute
- Agenda – Relationship building one on one, Leading Change Network
- Workbook – Creating Shared Commitment: Building Power Through Relationships, Recovery Advocacy Project Organizing Institute (behind member login)
- Agenda – Sample recruitment one on one, Organizers Handbook, p.18
- Video – How to build relationships, Resistance School
- Videos -Building Intentional Relationships, Advanced Training in Community Activation by People Power Health and the Sabin Vaccine Institute
- Slides – Relationships: Finding power in community – Collection of Training Slides by Leading Change Network
Teams and Structure
- Slides and Workbook – Recovery Advocacy Project Organizing Institute – Slides and Workbook: Creating Shared Structure: Building Leadership Teams
- Slides – Structure and teams, Leading Change Network
- Slides – Building strong teams, Art Reyes
- Slides – Structure: Creating organisation – Collection of Training Slides by Leading Change Network
- Graphic – Team stages, Organizers Handbook, pg, 29
- Video – Building leadership teams, Resistance School
- Video – How to structure and build capacity for action, Resistance School
Strategy
- Slides and Workbook – Recovery Advocacy Project Organizing Institute – Slides and Workbook: Creating Shared Strategy
- Slides – Strategy, New Organizers Training
- Slides – Strategy II: Tactics and timeline: Leadership, Organizing and Action Leading Change workshop, Leading Change Network
- Slides – Strategy 1 and 2 – Collection of Training Slides by Leading Change Network
- Quick Guide – Creating Shared Strategy by Jacob Waxman / Marshall Ganz
- Statement – Theory of Change, Organizers Handbook, pg. 35
- Worksheet – Tracking down the power, Organizers Handbook, pg. 47 – 49
- Video – Strategic Planning by Resistance School
- Video – Strategizing, Advanced Training in Community Activation by People Power Health and the Sabin Vaccine Institute
Action
- Worksheet – Developing Leadership Action Planning Worksheet: Planning a motivational action, Center for Popular Democracy
- Video – How to Structure and Build Capacity for Action – Marshall Ganz, Resistance School: Session 3 [Video]
- Slides and Workbook – Recovery Advocacy Project Organizing Institute – Mobilizing Shared Action
- Slides – Action: Shared commitment and Shared Measurable Action – Collection of Training Slides by Leading Change Network
Narrative
- Slides – Public Narrative: Introduction to the Craft (for The Mission Continues), Drawn to Lead – Rosi Greenberg
- Slides – Recovery Advocacy Project Organizing Institute
- Workshop Guide – Public Narrative Workshop 2021: Participant Guide
- Workshop Guide: An Introduction to Public Narrative, Arc of Change adapted from Marshall Ganz includes Worksheets: Developing your story, Instructions for self facilitation
- Guide – Public Narrative and Organizing Workshops Coordinators Guide
- Ranking and Time Cards – Public Narrative Workshop, Leading Change Network
- Worksheet – Instructions for Self Facilitation, Arc of Change, pg. 10
- Videos – Public Narrative Online Course by Marshall Ganz
- Videos – Public Narrative Training Videos from the Inspire Leadership School
Narrative Coaching
- Worksheet – Coaching stories, Organizers Handbook, pg. 46
- Worksheets and tips – Public Narrative Workshop 2021: Participant Guide
- Template – Public Narrative Coaching Guide
- Roadmap – Public Narrative Coaching Coaches
- Coaching Rubric – Public Narrative
- Videos – Coaching Public Narrative by The Resistance School
- Slides – Facilitation for Narrative – Collection of Training Slides by Leading Change Network
- Video – Public Narrative in Campaigns: Adapting Pedagogy to Practice by Leading Change Network
Story of Self
- Agenda – Story of Self, Leading Change Network
- Workbook – Creating Shared Story – Story of Self, Recovery Advocacy Project Organizing Institute
- Worksheet – Story of Self (from House Meeting Handbook, Leading Change Network) – pg. 66 – 67
- Video – Public Narrative Training about Story of Self by Abel Cano [SEIU Florida Public Services Union Workshop 2019] “This content is available for LCN members with an active subscription” 4July2022
- Video – Story of Self Facilitation for Community Engagement Training by Pedja Stojicic from ReThink Health
Story of Self – Videos
- Story of Self: Amal Beydoun (Video)
- Marshall Ganz’s Story of Self (Video)
- Stories of Self: Nine organizers explain how their life experiences compelled them to take action / From Article “The Personal is Political” (9 Videos)
- Story of Self by Abel Cano at a public narrative workshop by the union sector in 2019, SEIU Florida Public Services Union Workshop 2019 (Video)
- Story of Self by Anita Krishnan at a public narrative workshop by the union sector in 2019, SEIU Florida Public Services Union Workshop 2019 (Video)
- Story of Self by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy at Gold Foundation Golden Thread Gala (Video)
- JK Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure [Story of Self by JK Rowling, author and screenwriter] (Video)
Story of Us
- Workbook – Creating Shared Story – Story of Us
- Worksheet – Story of Us (from House Meeting Handbook, Leading Change Network) – pgs 68 – 70
- Presentation slides – Story of Us, Leading Change Network
- Slides – Story of Us – Collection of Training Slides by Leading Change Network
Story of Us – Videos
- Robert Kennedy speech at Indianapolis, Indiana, April 4, 1968 [announces the assassination of Martin Luther King – Example of Story of Us] (Video)
- Story of Us: Susan Christopher, Camp Obama “Us”, Burbank, California, July 2007 (Video)
- Story of Us by Patrick Cates (Video)
- Story of Us by Renata Dreamers (Video)
- Story of Us by Henry V (Video)
Story of Now
- Worksheet – Story of Now (from House Meeting Handbook, Leading Change Network) – pg. 71
- Presentation slides – Story of Now, Leading Change Network
- Slides – Story of Now and Linking – Collection of Training Slides by Leading Change Network
- Video – Coaching Public Narrative – Story of Now, Resistance School
Story of Now – Videos
- I have a dream speech by Martin Luther King (Video – Story of Now)
- You Got to Give Them Hope: Excerpt from a speech by Harvey Milk (1930 – 1978) American Politician and LGBT Rights Activist (Video) [Story of Now]
- Story of Now – Gandhi (Video)
- Sandra’s Story of Now (Camp Obama: Burbank) (Video)
- Robbie’s Story of Now (Camp Obama: Burbank) (Video)
Story of Self, Us and Now – Videos
- Barack Obama’s 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Speech (Video – Story of Self, Us, Now)
- 6.12 Seconds – James Croft’s Harvard LGBT Bullying Speech (Video)
- 6 Stories of Self, Us and Now from people who have set up organizations that tap into the power of intergenerational connection (Videos)
- Jacquinette Brown – Story of Self, Us and Now – Linked Narrative (Video)
- Missouri Dad Testifies Against Trans Youth Athlete Ban (Video)
- Miya Cain – Story of Self, Us and Now – Linked Narrative (Video)
- Dhruv Khullar – Story of Self, Us and Now – Linked Narrative (Video)
- Jordan Ward – Story of Self, Us and Now – Linked Narrative (Video)
- Youth Activism Project – Examples of Stories of Self, Us and Now by 4 speakers (Videos)
Campaign and Movement building
- Guide – Developing leaders through campaigns: Guide from The Center for Popular Democracy
- Timeline – Campaign timeline, Organizers Handbook, pg. 38
- Slides – Running Effective Campaigns, Haiyaa Foundation – Campaign Canvas, Campaign peaks, Campaign Health
- Guide – HAIYYA Campaigner’s Guide, To build/strength of your community & Campaign – Leadership development, Prototyping interventions and Campaign Health Assessment
- Slides – Mobilizing For Change, Haiyaa Foundation
- Book excerpt, discussion questions and timeline – Montgomery Bus Boycott Overview
Coaching
- Agenda – Coaching agenda, Leading Change Network
- Workbook – Coaching as a Leadership Practice, Recovery Advocacy Project Organizing Institute
- Guide – Coaching as a Leadership Practice, Mais Irqsusi
- Videos – Introduction to Coaching, Advanced Training in Community Activation by People Power Health and the Sabin Vaccine Institute
Other tools
- Action Breakout Roles
- Rapid Feedback Evaluation Form Template
- Evaluation Form Template
- Sign in sheet (from House Meeting Handbook, Leading Change Network) – pgs. 72 – 73
- Marshall Ganz Quotes and Wisdom
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