Manuals, Guides and Toolkits

Scouting Manual for Activists

This Scouting Manual for Activists helps you think about all the things you need to plan a successful and safe direct action tactic.

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Tactic: Sit-Ins

What are sit-ins? Here is a curated collection of resources about what they are, how to do a sit-in, and examples from around the world.

Building Narrative Power

Explore this set of resources – toolkit, film and discussion guide – to understand and build narrative power across institutions and cultural spaces

Front cover of guide titled 'Streetwise & Steady Workbook for Action Peacekeepers or Event Marshals'. Text under image reads 'By Daniel Hunter and Eileen Flanagan Illustrated by Paul Garner'. Abstract Illustration of loudhailer on the ground next to an orange traffic safety cone.|Screenshot of a page from 'Streetwise & Steady Workbook for Action Peacekeepers or Event Marshals'. There is text and illustrations that demonstrate how event marshals can project confidence. The text reads 'PracticePage:PROJECTINGCONFIDENCE Part of a peacekeeper’s role is projecting confidence. One way is to remember you have skills already in your life experience. Circle things you’ve done and think about how they help you be a peacekeeper. Calmed an angry kid Stepped between arguing friends Told someone where a bathroom is Walked someone home who felt unsafe Put a bandaid on someone Stayed calm while someone yelled Flagged a problematic behavior Gave directions Reminded a group of a shared goal Spotted tension and helped shift the mood Talked someone out of a rash decision Calmed yourself down Peacekeepers tend to people

Streetwise & Steady: A Workbook for Action Peacekeepers or Event Marshals

Practical guide to equip action peacekeepers or event marshals with essential skills such as de-escalation techniques, crowd coordination, and safety strategies.

Empowering & Supporting Storytellers: Tools for NGOs & Advocates

A guide collated by the Commons librarians for NGOs and storytellers, emphasising the importance of ethical storytelling practices.

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A Guide to Hope-based Communications

A hope-based communications strategy involves making five basic shifts in the way we talk about human rights.

Narrative Spices: An Invitational Guide for Flavorful Human Rights

A guide to inspire reflection and creative thinking about narrative change work and practices (or spices) in human rights.

To Engage or Not to Engage with the Far Right? How to Navigate the Shifting Political Landscape in Europe

This guide offers an analytical framework to assist civil society organisations to make informed decisions about engaging with the far right.

Report cover - Title reads 'Messaging Guide for Communicating about Homelessness'. A person is holding up their hand to their mouth and speaking into a loudspeaker. The Housing Narrative Lab is above the title.

Housing Narrative Lab

Narrative resources and messaging guides on shifting mindsets and supporting solutions for housing unaffordability / insecurity and homelessness.

Reframing Guidelines: A Step-by-Step Approach to Building a Narrative Change Campaign

This set of guidelines targets progressive campaigners and advocates wishing to better engage the ‘movable middle’.

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