Facilitation

Block, Bridge and Build: Playbook for an Inclusive Multi-Racial Democracy

Tools and frameworks for pro-democracy organizations and organizers on the front lines of the fight against authoritarianism.

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Working in Groups: Start Here

A guide from The Commons Social Change Library with collated resources to help groups work together better.

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: 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: Action Learning Cycle Framework

The Action Learning Cycle is an approach to learning which can strengthen the capacity for leaderful organizing.

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Belonging: A Facilitator and Practice Guide

This guide is a powerful tool for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of belonging and cultivate practices that promote connection, empathy, and community.

Beautiful Action Trainer Modules (BATMo): Resources for Nonviolent Action Trainers

People Power, Civil Resistance and Nonviolent Action NVA Trainers and Facilitators – Lists of training activities from Beautiful Trouble.

Get in Formation: A Community Safety Toolkit

Security & safety practices, Verbal De-escalation, Office and Organizational Safety, and Security for events and actions by Vision Change Win.

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Questioning for Learning, Co-creation and Liberation

Questions can be revolutionary! An exploration of different approaches to questioning for organisers and facilitators.

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The Creativity and Skill of Co-Facilitation

Co-facilitation as an important leadership practice. Here are some tools and processes for effective co-facilitation.

Build People Power and Capacity to Run Effective Campaigns and Movements to Tackle the Climate Crisis

Tools, skills, and resources from 350.org to build capacity to run effective campaigns and movements to tackle the climate crisis.

Facilitation Tools and Techniques

A selection of tools and techniques – both formal and informal – for facilitating meetings, workshops and events by Rhizome.

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Facilitating Meetings: A guide to making your meetings effective, inclusive and enjoyable

Introduction An in-depth guide by Seeds for Change about facilitating meetings and how to make them more effective, inclusive and enjoyable. Meetings have the potential to be inspiring! They provide a space where people come together for a common purpose – whether that’s making decisions, exploring a shared problem or providing mutual support. Ideally, everyone […]