Group skills

Leaderful Organizing Tool: Blended Decision Making

Blended Decision making allows for a collaborative, nuanced and power-informed approach to decision making in groups which can strengthen the capacity for leaderful organizing.

Leaderful Organizing Tool: Columbian Hypnosis

Columbian Hypnosis is a theatrical group exercise which explores our tendencies and assumptions around power and leadership.

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 Tool: DARCI Grid to Clarify Roles and Responsibilities

The DARCI grid (template) is a leaderful organising tool which allows for clarity in the distribution of roles and responsibilities.

Gamestorming: A Set of Innovative Co-creation Tools

Gamestorming is a set of co-creation tools used by innovators around the world. It is for those who want to design the future, change the world, make, create, and innovate.

Leaderful Organizing: Action Learning Cycle Framework

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

Report Cover - Text reads - National Disability Insurance Scheme Citizens’ Jury Scorecard for the National Disability Insurance Agency and People with Disability Australia. Collection of 19 photos stitched together of people with disability giving evidence sitting at desks in groups of people or presenting. Some people are wheelchair users.

Citizens’ Jury Case Study: NDIS Citizens’ Jury Scorecard Project

Case study of a citizens’ jury about the National Disability Insurance Scheme NDIS called the Citizens’ Jury Scorecard Project (Australia).

A graph of a circle with arrows and words. Title reads They way out: Moving from Vicious cycles to virtuous cycles. IN the middle of a red circle reads Toxic Polarization. Green arrows point to purple boxes with words that read: Stop to reset, Spot positive deviance, Complicate to simplify, Move to sychronize, Adapt to sustain progress.

Overcome Toxic Polarisation: A Political Courage Challenge

This tool developed by Starts With Us aims to fight toxic division and extremism and build tolerance and compassionate relationships.

Faire face au roulement des membres (Français) [Navigating turnover in Activist Groups in French)

Guide élaboré pour fournir aux groupes militants des idées et des stratégies pour faire face au roulement des membres, en particulier dans le cas des groupes dirigés par des étudiants.

A photograph of two women standing in front of a number of butcher's paper charts. Margie is facing a chart and writing on it. Glen is holding up a chart and facing the group.

Questioning for Learning, Co-creation and Liberation

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

NaManejando la Renovación de Membresia en Grupos Activistas

Manejando la Renovación de Membresia en Grupos Activistas (Spanish – Español)

Guía elaborada para proporcionar ideas y estrategias a los grupos de activistas a la hora de hacer frente a la rotación de miembros, especialmente en el caso de los grupos dirigidos por estudiantes

book cover that reads - Anarchic Agreements: A Field Guide to Collective Organizing. The text is written in red writing over the US Constitution document.

Constitutions: How To Build Durable Groups

Looking at building a group? Here are key questions that any group should consider and define during its formation.

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Campaign Starter Pack

This Campaign Starter Pack from Campaign Bootcamp UK contains information, inspiration and activity sheets, based on the experience and knowledge of people who have fought for change.