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Power: Training and Planning Tools

Training resources for changemakers including workshop exercises, activities and templates to explore in a group setting more about power.

Power and Connection – Exploring how Organisations Engage with Communities

The Loci of Power and Connection (LOPAC) framework is a tool for civil society organisations to use to consider their role and activities.

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Transformational Ethical Story Telling (TEST) Framework

The Transformational Ethical Story Telling (T.E.S.T.) framework, principles and guide by Our Race creates safer spaces for Story Holders.

Screenshot of a worksheet with different questions and boxes to fill out. Text reads 'POWER & POSITIONALITY IN CAMPAIGNS www.forpurpose.au Sense check how power is being expressed within your campaign by looking at the relationship between storytelling and decision-making.' Questions read 'ower and Positionality in Advocacy Campaigns Worksheet (PDF) This simple process can be used to sense check how power is being expressed within your campaign by looking at the relationship between storytelling and decision-making. Whose stories need to be heard in this campaign? Do the people whose stories need to be heard have agency as storytellers? If you are not a storyteller

Storytelling with Community: Applying Co-design Principles in Collaborative Storytelling for Advocacy Campaigns

Tips, tools, and a presentation from a workshop session for digital storytellers and organisers working with affected communities.

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What Makes Narrative Change So Hard?

What makes narrative change so hard? Brett Davidson explores how activists must expose unjust power dynamics & envision viable alternatives.

Guide Cover - Title reads 'Feminist Basket of Resources'. Illustration of an abundant woven basket being held up by hands of different colours. The basket is full of healthy plants and flowers. Someone is watering the baket with a watering can.|Screenshot from the guide 'Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources' by Oxfam.|Screenshot from the guide 'Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources' by Oxfam.|Screenshot from the guide 'Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources' by Oxfam.|Screenshot from the guide 'Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources' by Oxfam.|Screenshot from the guide 'Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources' by Oxfam.

Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources

This Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources guides you through tools and activities to make visible the many systems of oppression.

Title reads 'Narrative Power and Collective Action'. Text is in a big speech bubble.|Screenshot from pdf titled 'Narrative Power and Collective Action Conversations with People Working to Change Narratives for Social Good part 1 '. by Oxfam|Screenshot from pdf titled 'Narrative Power and Collective Action Conversations with People Working to Change Narratives for Social Good part 1 '. by Oxfam|Screenshot from pdf titled 'Narrative Power and Collective Action Conversations with People Working to Change Narratives for Social Good part 1 '. by Oxfam|Screenshot from pdf titled 'Narrative Power and Collective Action Conversations with People Working to Change Narratives for Social Good part 1 '. by Oxfam|Screenshot from pdf titled 'Narrative Power and Collective Action Conversations with People Working to Change Narratives for Social Good part 1 '. by Oxfam|Screenshot from pdf titled 'Narrative Power and Collective Action Conversations with People Working to Change Narratives for Social Good part 1 '. by Oxfam

Narrative Power and Collective Action: Conversations with People Working to Change Narratives for Social Good

‘Narrative power and collective action’ is a collection of curated conversations between Isabel Crabtree-Condor, a Knowledge Broker at Oxfam, and a diverse group of people working in the narrative change and collective action space.

Outrage Management in Israel-Palestine

Understand outrage management and the backfire model in this article by Brian Martin who uses the Israel-Palestine conflict as a case study.

Movement Learning Catalyst: A Guide to Learning for Systemic Change

Guide for experienced activists and organisers in social movements who are keen to enhance their effectiveness in effecting systemic change.

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Nonviolent Direct Action as Social Parable

This article “Nonviolent Direct Action as Social Parable” by Daniel Hunter explores how nonviolent direct action (NVDA) functions as a method of social change, akin to parables in religious and philosophical teachings.

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