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Working in Groups

Working in Groups

Making change is a collective endeavour that can bring many challenges! One of the biggest stumbling blocks can be the group itself: passionate individuals trying to work together. These resources will help you set a group up well, tune it up if it already exists, make decisions together, navigate conflict, and develop skills to be an effective participant and facilitator.

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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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Working with Conflict in our Groups: A Guide for Grassroots Activists

This guide is aimed at people and groups working for social change who want to develop an understanding of conflict and how to deal with it. There are sections on what conflict is, the benefits of addressing it, and tools to work though conflict and maintain healthy and effective social change groups.

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Why Conflict Happens in Social Change Groups

Learn about why conflict happens in social change groups in Working with Conflict in our Groups: A Guide for Grassroots Activists.

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Taking Effective Action to Deal with Conflict in your Group

How to take effective action to deal with conflict in your group from Working with Conflict in our Groups: A Guide for Grassroots Activists.

Conflict is Inevitable: Knowledge Roundup

This Guide provides ideas and strategies for activists groups to implement when dealing with conflict which is inevitable.

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The Dilemma of Growth in the Group: Primary and Secondary Systems

This excerpt from Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership explores the dilemma of growth in groups and outlines primary and secondary organisation systems.

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Mediation for Movements: Managing Intra-Movement Conflict

Explore how movements can manage internal conflict when it inevitably arises as they seek to build broad-based pro-democracy coalitions of active, passive, and unlikely allies.

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Board Members, We Need to Talk About Palestine

Many community organisations are facing criticism over Israel and Palestine. Governance expert Kate Larsen provides guidance.

Anytime is a Good Time to Create a Group: Tips from Disability Networks

Community Connections – Te Hapori Awhina Tangata produced this video which includes tips for people organising networks inclusive of people with disability.

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Resourceful and Impactful Capacity Building

Learn about impactful capacity building approaches from the Global Grassroots Support Network GGSN Community.

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Future of Governance Toolkit

The Future of Governance Toolkit is a living library of participatory governance use cases from around the world.

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10 Tips for how the Climate Movement can Improve Experiences for Activists with Diverse Health Needs

Researchers interviewed climate activists about their physical and mental health experiences. Here are 10 tips based on the activists’ experiences, insights and recommendations.

The Collaborative Impact Methods Kit

Welcome to the Collaborative Impact Methods Kit. This is a community-curated library of 500+ techniques and tools to unleash collective change.

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Leaderful Organizing Tool: Diversity Welcome

This activity makes visible the margins of the group and aims to support group members to feel seen and welcomed.

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Leaderful Organizing Tool: Spectogram – People Don’t Get Involved Because…

A tool to use in trainings on effective organising. This spectogram sets up the conversation on how to meet people where they are and move them into action.

Leaderful Organizing Tool: Giving and Receiving Feedback

Giving and Receiving feedback is a group exercise which supports authentic group relationships for long term collaboration.

Leaderful Organizing Tool: Organizational Structure Matrix

Organizational Structure Matrix is a conversational tool to explore the benefits and disadvantages of different organizing structures.

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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: Race Class Narrative Checklist

Race Class Narrative Checklist is a tool for increasing inclusion and solidarity in movements, by ensuring we push back against racism and classism.

Leaderful Organizing Tool: Republic of Kunbábony

The Republic of Kunbábony is a group roleplay exercise which explores strategic ways to get involved in the political process.

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