Introduction
The Global Organizing and Leadership Development GOLD is a program that provides the foundational basics of organizing and prepares people to become successful organizers through 6 stages.
The GOLD leadership program by ActionAid offers a multi-stage learning process designed to fit your busy schedule. Everyone is welcome to take the online courses at any time – at no cost!
These mini courses explore the foundations of organising, distributed leadership, social movements, forms of power and the concept of the Movement Cycle. Upon completing each course, you will be able to download a certificate.
Course Contents
- Why Organising?
- What is Organising?
- Organising vs. Mobilising
- NGOs and Social Movements
- The Movement Cycle
- Story of a Social Movement
In these courses you will learn what organising is, why organising is important, and how it works in practice.
After completing the course you will know the basics about community organising with a particular focus on how to scale organising beyond community level and how distinguish between organising and mobilising, and when to do what.
Through real cases you will get inspiration on how to use organising as an effective strategy to shift power.
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Watch Gold Shorts Videos
Welcome to GOLD, a leadership programme that takes you on a journey to become a successful organiser through four stages. You can enrol in short, self-paced courses, giving you a foundation of what organising is and how it works.
The Snowflake Model
The Snowflake model is a method for distributing leadership. It encourages spreading leadership across a movement so that many people with local knowledge and networks can grow into leadership positions and amplify a movement’s power and reach.
Pillars of Power
The Pillars of Power is a power analysis tool used to identify the institutions and individuals that support the issues you are working to undermine. It can be used to identify where to target your efforts to make the foundations of an oppressive structure or system fail. This video has been developed using content from Beautiful Trouble’s Toolbox, an interconnected web of the key strategies and tactics that have inspired people-powered victories & upended the status quo.
The Engagement Pyramid
Gideon Rosenblatt’s Engagement Pyramid is a model that can help with thinking strategically about entry points and varying levels of commitment of movement members.
The Beautiful Trouble Toolbox
The video is an introduction to the Beautiful Trouble Toolbox, its elements, and explains how to navigate through it it and use the tools provided.
Explore Further
- More online courses by ActionAid
- Introduction to Campaigning and Social Movements (Online Courses), 350.org
- Digital Campaigning and Online Organising Courses with Social Movement Technologies
- 7 online MOOCs about Social Change and Activism
- The Movement Cycle Methology, Beautiful Trouble Toolbox
- Democracy Resource Hub
