• a worksheet template|A large crowd marches behind a banner reading 'Peoples Climate March'. The march is led by First Nations people. Marchers hold colourful placards depicting sunflowers. A large banner is held high reading 'Frontlines of Impact

    Networked Change Campaign Grid: Worksheets

    The Networked Change Campaign Grid provides a clear path for integrating top-performing approaches into your strategic planning and design process. This worksheet helps you apply the principles of the directed-network campaigning.

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    Six Building Blocks of Distributed Organizing Campaigns

    Checklist with worksheets to make sure you have covered everything & asked the right questions in planning a distributed organizing program.

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    On Conflict and Consensus

    Making collective decisions and navigating conflict and are core activist skills. Conflict is usually viewed as an impediment to reaching agreements and disruptive to peaceful relationships. However, it is the underlying thesis of Consensus that nonviolent conflict is necessary and desirable.

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    Principles of Co-operative Conflict Resolution

    Navigating conflict is a core activist skill. These tips from peacebuilding have the potential to depolarise and de-escalate tense and challenging situations. This is an excerpt from the Nonviolent Community Safety and Peacebuilding Trainers’ Manual which is also available for download on the Commons.

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    Active Listening

    Active listening is a fundamental skill for peacebuilding and social change. It is more than hearing, it involves processing what has been heard and skilfully selecting a response. Active listening serves to encourage the person to tell more and most importantly, communicates to the person that you are interested and listening.

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    The Fight for the Rights of People Seeking Asylum

    At Progress 2017, GetUp!’s Shen Narayanasamy shared the strategy and critical lessons learnt during campaign work to protect the rights of people seeking asylum.

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    Insights from the Sydney Alliance

    What does it take to build a civil society coalition with the power to shift a city? This interview with Amanda Tattersall, Founder and Coalition Director of the Sydney Alliance, gives some good clues.

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    Book review of Amanda Tattersall’s Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change

    Denisse Sandoval shares insights from Amanda Tattersallโ€™s book Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change.ย 

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    7 Tools for Defining your Campaign Problem

    7 tools for defining your campaign problem come from The Campaign Accelerator Toolkit by MobLab. Where will your campaign go? Which problems will you focus on solving?

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    Can NGOs and Social Movements be Authentic Allies?

    Four things not for profit organisations can take into consideration to be authentic allies with social movements.

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