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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.

Working in Groups: Start Here

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

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 […]

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Governance Resources for Australian Not-for-Profits

The Institute of Community Directors has a comprehensive collection of resources to support good governance by not-for-profits. Check out these links to get started.

Key Resources from Mobilisation Lab

Reports, toolkits, templates and guides from Mobilisation Lab including campaign strategy, storytelling, digital campaigning, security and more.

ChangeMakers Organising School – Season Four, 2021 – How Small Groups Make Big Changes

ChangeMakers Organising School – Training (videos and slides) to connect and deepen knowledge to organise for social change.

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What does it take to build people power?

People power – Learn about the the five different, dynamic strategies that can create powerful change when mixed together.

Behind the scenes of Sunrise’s volunteer-led phone bank program

Want to know how to run a large scale volunteer led phonebank? Learn from the Sunrise Movement and how they managed their teams.

Creating a Team Culture

Use this Engagement Pyramid from the Mobilisation Lab to visualise the different ways a person might get involved with your campaign.

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Do Better and Win Bigger by Taking on Marginalisation

Change the world with boycotts, workplace action and memes, political campaigns, disaster relief, civil disobedience and more.

Digital tools to support effective meetings, training and conferences

List of digital tools activists have used to support effective meetings, training and conferences that complement and/or integrate with Zoom.

Campaign Accelerator Toolkit

A toolkit to accelerate the planning process so we can get campaigns out the door faster to create more effective people powered campaigns.

Ending the Activist Year Well

After a big year of effort it’s important to take time for reflection, evaluation, team-building, celebration, and planning. These resources will help.

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HUM: Double the engagement and productivity of your next online meeting

Do you want to double the engagement and productivity of your next online meeting? Here is a visual guide with practical & easy to use tips.

Online Training Monster Manual

Tired of making new slide decks for interactive tools? Want new ideas on participatory methods online? Looking for new games and warm-ups? The “Online Monster Manual” is a compilation of 80+ online training tools from 350 globally.

How to run virtual conferences and retreats

Need to know how to run virtual conferences or retreats? Australian Progress share lessons learned from their experiences with you.

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Films about Women & Social Justice and change

An inspiring list of feature films and documentaries about women and social change including Women of Steel, Suffragette, Mission Blue, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry and more.

How to Build a Team: Online Course

Do you want to know about building leadership teams and organising? 12 videos by Marshall Ganz that will help you learn all about setting up a team.

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Power Dynamics and Inclusion in Virtual Meetings

Learn how to facilitate inclusion, manage power dynamics and hold space with awareness and intentionality in virtual meetings and spaces.

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Are your Zoom meetings on Middle Class Standard Time?

Andrew Willis-Garces shares tips on how not to get caught out by the influence of professional middle class meeting culture in your online meetings. Consider the wellbeing of the group over trying to crunch in every single agenda item.